John Zhao

Mylan Specialty LP develops, manufactures, and markets respiratory disease & allergy treatment products. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Morgantown, WV.

Corthera, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceuticals, such as cardiovascular preparations. It engages in acquiring, developing, and commercializing therapies for illnesses in the acute care setting. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

BioTrove, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets systems, consisting of laboratory instruments and related consumables, for genomic analysis, high-throughput screening and molecular diagnostics. The company was founded by Tanya S. Kanigan and Colin J. H. Brenan in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc. operates as a medical device company for fracture treatment. It focuses on creating less invasive solutions for fractures in and around the joints. The firm offers distal radial and wrist fracture repair products. Its products include distal radius and proximal humerus. The company was founded by Michael P. Brenzel and Paul J. Hindrichs in 2009 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

Farapulse, Inc. engages in the development of medical devices. Its products are: Endo Farawave, a percutaneous catheter designed to create transmural and contiguous lesions on the endocardium of the left atrium to isolate the pulmonary veins and EPI Faraone, s designed to create a box lesion around all pulmonary veins from an epicardial placement of the catheter for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Steven Mickelsen in 2014 and is headquartered in Iowa City, IA.

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.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Blue Shield of California engages in the provision of healthcare insurance services. The firm offers insurance products include HMO, preferred provider organization, dental and medicare supplemental plan, accidental death and dismemberment, executive medical reimbursement, life insurance, and vision and short-term health plans. The company was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

HealthCore, Inc. provides complete portfolio of health services research and health economics and outcomes research services. It offers comparative effectiveness, health economics and outcomes, health services, late phase peri and poist approval, observational, pragmatic trials, and safety and epidemiology research. The company was founded by Marcus D. Wilson and Mark Cziraky in 1996 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Longitude Capital Management Co LLC (Longitude Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Juliet Trammenoms Bakker, Patrick Enright, David Hirsch and Marc-Henri Galletti. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

NeoChord, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers NeoChord, a disposable device that replaces damaged chordae through a small incision while the heart is beating. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in St. Louis Park, MN.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

InCarda Therapeutics, Inc. develops cardiovascular disease treatment through pulmonary delivery of established drugs. It also develops an inhaled therapy intended to treat paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Narasimhan Rangachari, John S. Patton, Gregory M. Marcus and Carlos A. Schuler in 2009 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

M1 Holdings LLC engages in the development of healthcare information software products. The company was founded by Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra on September 5, 2008 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

V-Wave Ltd. engages in the development of implantable medical device for treating chronic heart failure. It offers V-Wave Shunt, which is a biocompatible inter-atrial unidirectional implant. The company was founded by Gad Keren and Yaacov Nitzan in 2009 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Maravai Life Sciences, Inc. provides investment services. It focuses on acquiring companies and products in the diagnostics and life sciences industry. The company was founded by Carl W. Hull and Eric Tardiff in March 18, 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

MTrap, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutic devices that interfere with the intense dialogue and crosstalk between the primary tumor and the microenvironment and represent a new disruptive approach to cancer treatment. The company was founded by Maybelle L. Jordan and is headquartered in Huntington, NY.

Iridia, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It offers research and development services. The company was founded by James P. Linton in 2016 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Truvian Sciences, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers automated benchtop system which produces lab-accurate results for a full suite of tests from a small sample of blood. Its product features include compact and fully automated, dry reagent technology, and fast accurate results. The company was founded by Dena Marrinucci, Mark Bowles and Kim Puloma Kamdar in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Aspen Neuroscience, Inc. engages in the provision of neurological treatment services. It offers technologies for patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-based therapies. The company was founded by Jeanne Loring and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Alume Biosciences, Inc. operates as an biotechnology company. It develops nerve- targeted pharmaceuticals for surgical and therapeutic use. The company was founded by Quyen Nguyen, Brett Berman, Chrysa Mineo, Mike Whitney, and Roger Tsien in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Adjuvant Capital LP (Adjuvant Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Glenn Rockman, Kabeer Aziz and Charlie Petty. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Epitel, Inc. is a digital health company based in Salt Lake City, UT. Epitel, Inc. revolutionizes how brain health is monitored by combining wearable EEG technology with data analytics and machine-learning capabilities. The company designs and develop wireless solutions that provide long-term monitoring for people living with epilepsy. The company's proprietary cloud-based wearable sensor system, along with other innovative AI technologies, empowers better treatment decisions by making EEG readily deployable and accessible. Epitel's flagship product, Remi, is an unobtrusive wearable seizure detection system that records long-term EEG, providing peace of mind and better understanding for individuals managing their seizures. The company was founded by Mark Lehmkuhle and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Lynx Biosciences, Inc. develops a cytomics-based platform technology. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Reprieve Cardiovascular, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of medical devices. The firm develops device to treat patients suffering from acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). The company is headquartered in Milford, MA.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to help people lead healthy and productive lives. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's mission is to create a world where everyone has equal opportunities. The company is guided by the belief that every life has equal value. The foundation is currently working on 'the big catch-up' project, which aims to increase vaccination levels among children to pre-pandemic levels and strengthen primary healthcare services for essential immunization in the future. The company was founded by Melinda French Gates and William H. Gates, and the CEO is Mark Suzman.

Access Youth Academy operates as a school. The non-profit company is based in San Diego, CA.

Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a health and wellness company. The company was founded by Stephanie Venn-Watson, Eric Venn-Watson, Nicholas J. Schork and Kim Kamdar and is headquartered in San Diego ,CA.

Alumne Elearning SL provides e-learning services.

Pleno, Inc. is a company that specializes in multi-omic instrument platform technology for clinical testing and biomedical research. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded by Pieter van Rooyen, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's proprietary hypercoding™ technology uses signal processing techniques to provide targeted biological information with exceptional scale, precision, and performance.

Medical Excellence Capital LLC (MEC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by John R. Prufeta. The firm is headquartered in New York City.