Melanie J. Herman

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Allos Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company committed to the development and commercialization of innovative anti-cancer therapeutics. It focuses on the development and commercialization FOLOTYN a pralatrexate injection. FOLOTYN is a folate analogue metabolic inhibitor designed to accumulate preferentially in cancer cells. It targets the inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase, or DHFR, an enzyme critical in the folate pathway, thereby interfering with DNA and RNA synthesis and triggering cancer cell death. Allos Therapeutics is also developing FOLOTYN in other hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. The company was founded on September 1, 1992 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc. engages in discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs for metabolic diseases using the proprietary technology and the knowledge of processes and pathways within the liver that are useful for liver-selective drug targeting and treatment of metabolic diseases. Metabasis was incorporated in April 1997 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Alita Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes urologic and female healthcare products. It offers product testing, research and development services. The company was founded by Carole S. Ben-Maimon and Warburg Pincus in September 2006 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sprout Group (Sprout) is venture capital subsidiary of Credit Suisse Private Equity LLC founded in 1969. The firm headquartered in New York.

HUYA Bioscience International LLC develops biopharmaceutical products. It sources pharmaceutical innovation originating in China for global development in international markets. It's lead immune-oncology lead product, HBI-8000, already approved in China, is now in registration trials in Japan and Korea for lymphoma and in clinical trials in the U.S. for various solid tumor indications in combination with the checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab. The company was founded by Mireille Gillings in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Association of Bioscience Financial Officers operates as a national networking group for biotechnology, med tech and bioscience financial officers. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alivio Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies to treat inflammatory disorders through targeted disease immunomodulation. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer, Jeffrey Karp, John LaMattima, Brian Leuthner, Bennett Shapiro, Eric Elenko, Joep Muijrers, and Stephen Muniz and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Talon Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which is engaged in the developing and commercializing new and differentiated cancer therapies. The firm is developing the Marqibo for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and other blood cancers including lymphoma. Its Menadione topical lotion is a compound which is developed for the prevention and treatment of skin toxicity associated with epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors. The company was founded by Mark J. Ahn in 2002 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Radionetics Oncology, Inc. is a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company based in Menlo Park, CA. Radionetics Oncology, Inc. focuses on the discovery and development of novel radiotherapeutics for the treatment of various oncology indications. Radionetics Oncology spun out of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals and is supported by Frazier Life Sciences, 5AM Ventures, DCVC Bio, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, and GordonMD Investments. The company is advancing a pipeline of small molecule radioligands that target G-protein coupled receptors to treat a wide range of cancers, including adrenocortical carcinoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. The company's platform technology uses nonpeptide, small molecule targeting to deliver therapeutic radioisotopes selectively to tumors expressing peptide receptors. The company's pipeline consists of multiple lead drug candidates, and they are conducting additional drug discovery efforts in collaboration with Crinetics Pharmaceuticals. The market for radiopharmaceuticals is expected to rise to $12.6 billion by 2027. The company was founded by Scott R. Struthers, and Paul A. Grayson has been the CEO since 2024.

AFYX Therapeutics AS engages in research and development of pharmaceutical drugs. It develops a platform designed to deliver a pharmaceutical drug uni-directional to a mucosal surface. The company was founded in May 2014 and is headquartered in Virum, Denmark.

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. Its products and services include piggyBac Reagents, cell engineering services and gene editing reagents & kits. The company was founded by Ostertag M. Eric in 2005 and is headquartered in Lexington, KY.

Ziarco Pharma Ltd. provides therapeutics targeting inflammatory and allergic diseases. It focuses on chronic inflammatory skin diseases, atopic dermatitis, and Psoriasis. The company was founded by Michael Yeadon, Wai Leung Liu, Lynn Worth Purkins and Arif Kassam Shivji in 2012 and is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.