Janet Okonski

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

CytoReason Ltd. is an Israeli company that aims to link mechanisms across diseases, treatments, and patient groups. The company is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. The company provides a platform that connects decisions to the underlying science of drug programs. The company's team includes top immunologists, a chief medical officer, a chief data scientist, a VP of strategic alliances, a chief technology officer, and a head of commercial operations. The company focuses on immune-mediated diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, atopic dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma, immuno-oncology diseases such as non-small cell lung cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and melanoma, and fibrosis diseases such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, systemic sclerosis, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. CytoReason was founded in 2016 by Elina Starosvetsky, Ksenya Kveler, Yuval Kalugny, Renaud Gaujoux, David Harel, and Shai Shen-Orr. David Harel has been the CEO since 2016.

Oxford Bioscience Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1992 by Edmund Martin Olivier, Alan G. Walton and Cornelius T. Ryan. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Cook MyoSite, Inc. is a private company based in Pittsburgh, PA that was founded by Michael Chancellor in 2002. The company is dedicated to the development and commercialization of technology related to the collection, selection, and expansion of human skeletal muscle cells for the treatment of various disorders. Cook MyoSite operates several regulated clinical studies and provides custom services, including modified cell samples to contract manufacturing arrangements, procurement and processing of muscle cells from specific donor populations, custom media formulations, CMO/CDMO arrangements, and QC analytical testing and assay development. The company specializes in muscle cell technology and cell therapy.

Crystalplex Corp. operates a biochemistry and diagnostics laboratory that specializes in nanotechnology for the life sciences industry. Its proprietary technology, SapphireTM QDs provides a stable crystal design, flexible polymer matrix morphology, and meets environmentally responsible yet demanding performance requirements for high-end consumer electronics applications such as liquid crystal display televisions, displays, and high-CRI architectural lighting. The company was founded by Thomas A. Petzinge Jr. in 2004 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Alkermes, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The company was founded by Michael A. Wall, Floyd E. Bloom, Frederick W. K. Brown, Paul R. Schimmel and Alexander G. Rich in 1987 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Apogee IT Services engages in the provision of information technology security, data backup, and disaster recovery services. The firm also offers network and infrastructure services. It serves law firms, financial service,s and manufacturing companies. The company was founded by Peter Briden in 1990 and is headquartered Sewickley, PA.

TrueNorth Life Sciences provides latescence services. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by David S. Battleman.

Forever, Inc. engages in the provision of memory-keeping solution. Its products and services include storage, video, online printing, scanning, scrapbook, digital art, photo management software, mobile app, and events. The company was founded by Glen T. Meakem in May 2012 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. provides auditing, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. Its serves technology, consumer business, energy and resources, financial services, life sciences and health care, manufacturing, public sector, real estate, technology, media, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The International Continence Society is a British private company that provides educational and human health care services.

Novatio Ventures (Novatio Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Peng Fu. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Korea Seoul Life Science Fund provides investment services.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of hospital health programs and services. It operates through the following business units: Provider Services, Insurance Services, UPMC International, and UPMC Enterprises. It also develops programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, orthopedics, and sports medicine. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

LaunchCyte LLC (LaunchCyte) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Tom A.Petzinger and Barbara Bailey Carryer. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Knopp Neurosciences, Inc. operates as a drug discovery and development company. It focused on delivering breakthrough treatments in neurological disorders. It operates through three areas: inflammation discovery platform, mitochondrial discovery platform, and ion channel discovery platform. The company was founded by Gregory T. Hebrank in 2004 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Immunetrics, Inc. operates as a bio-simulation company. The company was founded by Carson Chow, Timothy R. Billiar, Gilles Clermont, Mitchell P. Fink and Yoram Vodovotz in 2001 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Metritrack, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on advancing the current state of breast cancer care by removing the existing limitations of breast ultrasound. Its product, Breast Volume Navigator G-1000, is designed to precisely and instantly perform automated 3D mapping of breast tissue, regardless of deformation or patient motion; essential for diagnostic and treatment purposes in the age of multi-modality imaging and not available with other systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hillside, IL.

MenoGenix, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on development of drugs for menopause and the menopause diseases. The company was founded by Debra M. Duke and Jonathan Kaufman in 2010 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Knopp Biosciences LLC engages in the operation of a drug discovery and development company. It offers dexpramipexole product, an orally bioavaliable small molecule in development treatment of asthma, eosinophil-associated disorders and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease. The company was founded by Robert Bowser and Gregory T. Hebrank in 2004 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.