Gregory J. Porreca

EMD Millipore Corp. engages in the provision of laboratory materials, technologies, and services to the life science industry. The company was founded by Jack Bush in 1954 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Athena Diagnostics, Inc. provides clinical diagnostics testing laboratory services. The firm focuses on neurology, endocrinology, hearing loss and nephrology. It offers tests for Alzheimer's disease, muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular and developmental disorders. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Intelligent Bio-Systems is developing a next generation DNA sequencing system that can simultaneously increase the speed and reduce the cost of producing sequence data by a factor of 100 to 1,000. It uses a proprietary chemistry, high-density chip and fluorescent instrument system to accurately decode the sequence of DNA fragments. The technology has the potential to dramatically change the way research is performed and healthcare is delivered.

Allegro Diagnostics Corp. develops and commercializes molecular diagnostics system. It focuses on lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases using proprietary gene expression technology originating within the Pulmonary Center at the Boston University School of Medicine. The company was founded by Jerome S. Brody and Avrum Spira on April 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA.

Genia Technologies, Inc. develops DNA sequencing platforms. Its nanopore-based platform allows for single molecule, electrical real-time analysis without the need for complicated optics, labels, and amplification, or fluidics. The firm's sequencing platform enables the use of molecular diagnostics in everyday clinical care. The company was founded by Roger Chen, Stefan Roever, Pratima Rao, and Randy Davis in March 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California

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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Molecular Probes, Inc. has manufactured fluorescence-based detection solutions for use in labeling molecules for biological research and drug discovery. The company was headquartered in Eugeme, OR.

Genzyme Genetics, Inc. provides laboratory testing and diagnostic services specifically for reproductive and oncology tests. It provides tests for cystic fibrosis carriers and cancers. The company is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

Life Technologies Clinical Services Lab, Inc. offers clinically guided personal genetic testing services for customers. The firm develops and commercializes genetics-based products and services to enhance individual health and wellness; and educates and empowers individuals and their physicians by providing personalized genetic insights about disease risk and medication response to catalyze behavior change and inform clinical decision-making. The company was founded by David B. Agus and Dietrich A. Stephan in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Accenture LLC operates as a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Vesta Genetics, Inc. provides DNA diagnostic laboratory services. It specializes in DNA analysis for common genetic disorders that are preventable or can be treated. The company was founded by Annette K. Taylor in 1994 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Locus Development, Inc. provides real estate development and asset management services. The company was founded by Sean E. George in in 2010 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

GRO Biosciences, Inc. develops genomically recoded organisms to express therapeutic proteins. The company was founded by George McDonald Church, Andrew D. Ellington, Daniel J. Mandell, Christopher J. Gregg, P. Benjamin Stranges, Marc J. Lajoie, and Ross Thyer in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Hangzhou Qihan Biotech Co., Ltd. is a biotech company that applies genome-editing technology to develop novel cell therapies and organs for transplantation. The company is based in Hangzhou, China. The Chinese company's mission is to create immunologically privileged allogeneic cells and xenogeneic organs for use as therapies to treat cancer, organ failure, and other complex medical conditions. Qihan Biotech has raised two rounds of financing and is advancing its cell therapy programs into IND enabling investigations. It was founded in 2017 by Luhan Yang and George McDonald Church, with Luhan Yang serving as the CEO since then.

Nebula Genomics, Inc. operates a platform that will use block chain technology to decentralize genome sequencing. The company was founded by Dennis Grishin, George McDonald Church and Kamal Obbad in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Inari Agriculture, Inc. engages biotechnology research and development. It specializes in plant breeding technology. The company was founded by David Berry, Ignacio Martinez, George Church, and Steve Jacobsen in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Synvitrobio, Inc. operates as a molecule and drug discovery firm. The company was founded by Zachary Sun, George Church, Richard Murray in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kern Systems, Inc. operates as an application to store data into deoxyribonucleic acid. Its applications allow data to restore, trace and track, and with big data storage capacity. The company was founded by Henry H. Lee and George M. Church and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Volta Labs, Inc. engages in building computational and automation tools to engineering biology. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Petri is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Andy Beck, Daphne Koller, Emily Leproust, Chris Voigt, Reshma Shetty, Alec Nielsen, Bernhard van Lengerich,Stan Lapidus, Pam Silver, JP Mangeolle and George Church. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Fitbiomics, Inc. operates as a microbiome biotechnology company. The firm utilizes next-generation sequencing to understand what makes elite athletes unique. The company was founded by Jonathan Scheiman, George Church, Alex Evans, Aleksandar Kostic, Carolina Barsa, Vasco Bridges and Treasure Neal and is headquartered in New York, NY.

64-X, Inc. engages in the design and development of cells with enhanced properties for advanced bio-manufacturing and therapeutics applications. The firm also provides research and development services. The company was founded by George Church, Alexis Rovner, Pam Silver, and Jeff Way in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

JURA Bio, Inc. is an American company founded in 2017 that has developed an end-to-end generative machine learning and synthetic biology platform for the discovery and development of genetic medicines. The private company is based in an undisclosed location. The company's focus is on developing drugs built around the tcr-epitope-hla synapse, and they are developing a map from any antigen-hla pair to any t cell receptor. This map would broadly advance the development of therapeutics for oncology and autoimmune disease.

Catalio Capital Management LP (Catalio Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Boutique Venture Partners LLC (Boutique Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by S. Thaddeus Connelly and Rami El Assal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Colossal Biosciences, Inc. is a company that uses CRISPR technology to try to bring back extinct species. The company is based in Austin, TX. The company was founded by George McDonald Church and Ben Lamm, with Ben Lamm serving as CEO since its incorporation.

GC Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA. GC Therapeutics uses synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with efficiency, speed, and scalability. The company has validated cells for many applications and have developed supercells™ by tailoring cells for specific diseases. The company's goal is to bring this breakthrough approach to patients. The company was founded in 2019 by Parastoo Khoshakhlagh, Alex Ng, Cory Smith, and George McDonald Church, with Parastoo Khoshakhlagh as the CEO since 2019.