Pierre E. G. Etienne

Massachusetts Biotechnology Council is a premier life sciences and healthcare hub with over 1,600 members dedicated to preventing, treating, and curing diseases through transformative science and technology. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. MassBio works to advance policy and promote education while providing member programs, events, industry information, and services. The company's mission is to advance Massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the healthcare system, and improve patient lives. Founded in 1985 by James P. Sherblom, the CEO is Kendalle Burlin O'Connell.

PreCision Dermatology, Inc. developed skincare therapies. It offered pharmaceutical products for skin barrier restoration, dermatoses, rosacea, acne, seborrheic dermatitis, and scaling associated with hyperkeratotic skin. The company was founded by Jeffrey M. Nugent in 2010 and was headquartered in Cumberland, RI.

QIAGEN GmbH provides products for preanalytical sample preparation and molecular diagnostics solutions. It develops and markets consumable products and automated solutions to molecular diagnostics laboratories, academic researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and applied testing customers for purposes such as forensics, animal or food testing and pharmaceutical process control. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Hilden, Germany.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Museum of Science operates as a museum. The company was founded in 1830 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Biogen MA, Inc. is a biotechnology company principally engaged in discovering and developing drugs for human healthcare through genetic engineering. The company’s research and development activities used to focus on novel products for multiple sclerosis, inflammatory, respiratory, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, developmental biology and gene therapy. The company was founded by Daniel D. Adams in 1976 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Biotheranostics, Inc. develops and provides diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tests that support physicians in the treatment of cancer patients. It has commercialized two proprietary, highly differentiated products focused on early stage breast cancer and all metastatic cancers, Breast Cancer Index (BCI) and CancerTYPE ID (CTID). The company was founded by Thomas M. Baer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Eli Lilly & Co. Ltd. provides pharmaceutical health care solutions. It provide products for cardiovascular, dermatology, diabetes, endocrine, musculoskeletal, neuroscience, oncology and urology. The company was incorporated on April 9, 1963 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, the United Kingdom.

Part of Eli Lilly & Co., Eli Lilly Benelux SA is a pharmaceutical company based in Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian company focuses on research and development to discover and offer innovative medicines that improve the quality of life for people worldwide. Lilly has established policies, standards, and protective measures for the entire research and development process to ensure that the patient remains the top priority. The CEO of the company is Frederic Clais.

Tafkak, Inc. provides genome sequencing and analysis solutions. It offers tools and solutions to researchers, drug developers and clinicians determine the genetic basis of human disease and drug response. The firm provides knomeCLINIC a software suite that helps medical researchers and clinicians interpret human genomes for biological relevance; kGAP a cloud-enabled genome informatics engine that automates the process of standardizing, distilling, annotating and comparing sequence data. It also offers knomeVARIANTS, a discovery-supportive interpretation tool, which helps researchers to find causal variants and genes. The company was founded by Jorge Conde and George M. Church in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Modernatx, Inc. develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Its vivo drug technology that produces human proteins, antibodies and entirely novel protein constructs inside patient cells, which are in turn secreted or active intracellularly. The company was founded by Derrick J. Rossi, Doug G. Cole, Doug G. Cole, Robert S. Langer, Jr., Noubar Afeyan, and Kenneth R. Chien in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Alpine Bioventures, GP, LLC (Alpine Bioventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Mitchell H. Gold in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of vaccines for infectious disease and cancer. Its programs focus on a novel lipid nanocapsule platform technology for delivering vaccines in a form mimicking the structure of pathogens to elicit potent immunity in prophylactic and therapeutic settings. The company was founded by Satish Jindal and Darrell Irvine on August 10, 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bain Capital Public Equity LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1996 as Brookside Capital LP. They are wholly-owned by Bain Capital LP, itself a subsidiary of Bain Capital Holdings LP. Bain Capital Public Equity provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles (Public Equity Funds). Investors in the Public Equity Funds includes high net-worth individuals, banks, thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, university endowments, corporations, limited partnerships and limited liability companies or other business entities.

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.

Varro Technologies, Inc. develops distributed knowledge management applications for the life science industry. It offers a patent-pending technology solution for accessing, managing, and sharing the genetic information. The company was founded by Jay Venkatesan, David Sullivan Shin, Wesley Chan, and Chester M Hedgepeth III on December 22, 2000 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

ACM Capital Partners LLC provides investments services. The company is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Exicure Operating Co. operates as a biopharmaceutical company commercializing spherical nucleic acid constructs as gene regulation and modulation agents for diseases including applications in oncology, dermatology, neurology, and for immune disorders. The SNA constructs allow the use of oligonucleotide-based therapies to treat diseases in a range of tissue types. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Colby Shad Thaxton in 2011 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

Brookside Mezzanine Partners Management LLC (Brookside Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1977 by John N Irwin and David D Buttolph. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.