David Hallal

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

Scholar Rock, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on discovering and developing a novel class of biologic therapies that target supracellular activation of growth factors in the disease microenvironment. The company was founded by Timothy Springer and Leonard Zon and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

iTeos Therapeutics SA engages in the discovery of immunomodulators for cancer therapy. It operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on targeting metabolism of the tumor microenvironment through development of small-molecule immunomodulators for cancer treatment. The firm develops small molecules designed to target the tumor microenvironment by inhibiting cancer-induced immune suppression. Targeting such resistance mechanisms will enhance the clinical efficacy of both standards of care treatments as well as the newer immunomodulatory therapies based on the blockade of immune checkpoints. The company was founded in 2011 by Michel Detheux and Benoit Van den Eynde and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

ElevateBio LLC is a biotechnology holding company, which creates and operates a broad portfolio of cell and gene therapy companies. It builds single and multi-product companies by providing scientific founders with bench-to-bedside capabilities including scientists, manufacturing facilities, drug developers, and commercial expertise. The company was founded by David L. Hallal, Vikas Sinha, and Mitchell H. Finer and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of ElevateBio LLC, LifeEDIT Therapeutics, Inc. is a next-generation genome editing private company that has built a highly innovative platform with one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of novel RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) and base editors. The company offers gene editing tools with higher fidelity, novel functionality, reduced immune response risk, and easier delivery. LifeEDIT has a large and diverse library of RGNs, including type II and type V systems that encompass knock-out and knock-in capabilities, transcriptional regulation, and base editing when coupled with one of their proprietary deaminases. The company's nuclease collection has a broad range of protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs), offering unprecedented access to genomes. LifeEDIT is headquartered in Morrisville, NC. The CEO of the company is Mitchell H. Finer. LifeEDIT Therapeutics was acquired by ElevateBio LLC from AgBiome Delta LLC on October 27, 2021.