Patrick Taylor Horn

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the development and production of novel tetracyclines for serious and life-threatening bacterial infections. It also develops eravacycline, a synthetic fluorocycline, as an intravenous and oral antibiotic for use as a first-line empiric monotherapy for the treatment of resistant and multi-drug-resistant infections. The company was founded on July 7, 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Dyax Corp. engages in discovery, development and commercialization of novel biotherapeutics. The company was founded by Henry E. Blair in 1989 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Albireo Pharma, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel bile acid modulators for the treatment of orphan pediatric liver diseases and gastrointestinal disorders. Its pipeline products include Odevixibat, A3384, and Elobixibat. The company was founded by Jan Peter Mattsson and Per-Göran Gillberg on December 8, 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Orphan Technologies Ltd. engages in the manufacturing of biopharmaceutical drugs. It develops novel therapies for patients suffering from rare disorder and classical homocystinuria. The company is headquartered in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

HemoShear Therapeutics LLC engages in the development of human-relevant systems for applications in drug research and development. It creates human relevant systems that replicate the biology of organ systems and diseases throughout drug discovery and development. The firm's technology imposes human-derived hemodynamic forces on human primary cells to recreate human biology. The company was founded by Brian R. Wamhoff and Brett R. Blackman in 2008 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.