Milind Deshpande

Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of oral small molecule complement system inhibitors. Its pipeline includes Danicopan and ACH-5228. The company was founded on August 17, 1998 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, PA.

Nayan Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on small molecule development for oscular disorders involving rod degeneration. The company is headquartered in Medfield, MA.

Santi Therapeutics, Inc. provides pharmaceutical services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

RA Capital Management LP (Private Equity) (RA Capital) is a private equity & venture capital subsidiary of RA Capital Management LP founded by Peter Kolchinsky in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Clear Creek Bio, Inc. engages in the development of therapies that target nucleotide synthesis pathways. The firm focuses on the differentiation blockade in cancer and suppress replication of RNA-based viruses. It uses pharmacodynamic markers to ensure that each patient gets the right drug at the correct dose. The company was founded by David T. Scadden, David B. Sykes, Burt A. Adelman, and Vikram Sheel Kumar in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Avilar Therapeutics is an American biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery and development of extracellular protein degraders. The company is based in an undisclosed location. The company has developed a proprietary discovery platform that includes novel, high-affinity, small molecule asgpr ligands and advanced modeling of the biophysics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of atac mediated endocytosis and degradation. Avilar is developing atacs, a new class of protein degraders that shuttle disease-causing proteins from circulation to the endolysosome where the unwanted proteins are degraded. The company is leveraging their atac platform to create a broad and diverse pipeline of first-in-class extracellular protein degraders. The company was founded by Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz and Jamie Kasuboski. The CEO is Daniel S. Grau.