Monique Schiersing

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Advent Venture Partners LLP (AVP) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1981 by David James Scott Cooksey. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides drug discovery and clinical development services. It develops and discovers products focusing on first-in-class, disease-modifying, small molecule therapeutics to treat diseases of protein misfolding. The company was founded by Jeffery W. Kelly and Susan L. Lindquist in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Millendo Therapeutics US, Inc. engages in the development of novel treatment for adrenal cancer. It focuses on developing a portfolio of disease-modifying treatments for endocrine disorders caused by hormone dysregulation. The company was founded by Raili E. Kerppola, Julia C. Owens, and Gary D. Hammer in January 2012 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Purigen Biosystems, Inc. engages in extracting, enriching and quantifying DNA and RNA from biological samples. The company was founded in 2012 by Amy Hiddessen, Klint Rose and Juan Santiago and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Artax Biopharma, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of new therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The firm develops drugs targeting the interaction between T-cell Receptors (TCR) and Nck, a cytoplasmic adapter protein which plays a role in T-cell activation. The company was founded by Dami? Carulla Tormo in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

5AM Venture Management LLC (5AM Ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2002 by Andrew J. Schwab, Carin M. Rollins and John D. Diekman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops broad-spectrum antifungal agents for the treatment of life-threatening fungal infections. The firm's compound APX001, shows broad-spectrum activity in animal models of invasive fungal infection by common species of Candida and Aspergillus. It develops oral and injectable anti-infective drugs, including protease inhibitors and antibiotics. The company was founded by André Marquis, Mitchell W. Mutz and Gerry Crabtree in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

EryDel SpA offers medical research. It develops drugs and diagnostics delivered through human red blood cells via a medical device technology. The company was founded by Luigia Rossi and Mauro Magnani in 2007 and is headquartered in Bresso, Italy.

Arch Oncology, Inc. develops drugs for life-threatening disorders. Its products include anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody, CD47 antisense oligonucleotide, and a small molecule CD47 inhibitor. The company was founded by William A. Frazier and Jeffrey S. Isenberg in 2006 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

MISSION Therapeutics Ltd. develops small molecule drugs targeting enzymes involved in cancer and other diseases. It focuses on selectively targeting deubiquitylating enzymes to treat cancer, neurodegenerative and other diseases. The company was founded by Stephen Jackson Philip, Xavier Jacq, Niall M. B. Martin and Keith Menear in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

NYU Elaine A. & Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center provides health care services. It offers treatments for bone, joint, and muscle disorders; brain and nervous system disorders cancers, tumors and blood disorders; genetic and chromosomal disorders and immune system disorders. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Advent Venture Partners LLP, Advent Life Sciences LLP is a venture capital firm for visionary innovators. The company is based in London, UK. Advent Life Sciences has achieved its first discovery milestone in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb, and is focused on the journey from innovative science to an approved medicine or product. The British company has a history of delivering value and is one of the leading venture capital firms in the industry.

Inotrem SA specializes in the development of therapeutic approaches based on its proprietary TREM-1 platform. The firm focuses on the control of immune reactions in acute inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Jean-Jacques Garaud, Marc Derive and Sebastien Gibot in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Corvidia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focusing on cardiovascular therapies. It develops treatments for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, inflammation in chronic kidney diseases, and high triglyceride-induced acute pancreatitis. The company was founded by Michael H. Davidson, Rahul Kakkar, Matt Devalaraja, and Ram Aiyar in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Boston Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that leverages a drug development team to advance a portfolio of high value candidates that address important unmet medical needs. The company was founded by Robert Armstrong and Chris Viehbacher and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals AG develops drugs for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. It develops drugs for the treatment of anti-MAG neuropathy disease and multifocal motor neuropathy disease. The firm also develops antibody-catch, a platform technology that enables the development of drugs for highly specific interception of autoimmune disease antibodies and focuses on autoimmune diseases of the peripheral nervous system that involve autoantibodies against carbohydrate epitopes. The company was founded by Andreas J. Steck, Beat Ernst, Pascal Hänggi and Ruben Herrendorffin in 2014 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Arrakis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops rna-targeted small molecule medicines focused on neurologic, cancer, and rare genetic diseases. The company was founded by Russell C. Petter, Alan E. Walts, Jennifer C. Petter and Raj Bhikhu Parekh in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Breath Therapeutics GmbH is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of inhaled therapeutics for respiratory diseases. It offers drug device platform, which consists of liposomal drug-aerosol formulations and cutting-edge inhalation technology. The company was founded by Jens Stegemann, Gerhard Boerner, Oliver Denk, and Anne Burger in 2016 and is headquartered in Munchen, Germany.

HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc. develops new allosteric therapies with the ability to treat disease. The company was founded by Jonathan Montagu and Geraldine Harriman and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

GeneSpire Srl is a holding company, which engages in the development of transformative gene therapies for patients with genetic diseases. The company was founded by Luigi Naldini and Alessio Cantone in March 2020 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Leucid Bio Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in London, UK. The British company develops novel, lateral car cell therapies for the treatment of refractory cancers, with a focus on developing next-generation cell therapies for the benefit of individuals with hard-to-treat solid tumors. The company's operations are based at Guys Hospital, enabling them to maintain a patient-centric focus. Leucid's goal is to develop CAR-T therapies with more durable responses, improving treatment outcomes and saving the lives of patients with refractory cancers. Leucid was established to translate 20 years of Kings College research in the CAR-T field and is led by a highly experienced management team, including scientific founder John Maher. Filippo Joseph Petti has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Flamingo Therapeutics BV is a Belgian company that specializes in developing RNA-targeted therapies for oncology. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium and was founded by Mike Garrett and Floor Stam. Flamingo is dedicated to delivering therapeutic benefit to patients living with cancer and believes that their programs and approach can successfully address large unmet medical needs where RNA-targeting can be effective. The company's clinical-stage pipeline focuses on targeting undruggable transcription factors and splice variants. The CEO is Stephane van Rooijen.

Mablink Bioscience is a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France that develops next-generation antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of solid tumors. Mablink Bioscience's exclusive PSarlink™ platform is a unique stealth technology that "masks" the hydrophobicity of the cytotoxic drugs by adding a polysarcosine chain to the linker. The French company's pipeline is built on the topoisomerase-I inhibitor exatecan as a payload for current developments. Recently, the company announced the publication of a review article titled “Payload Diversification\: A Key Step in the Development of Antibody–Drug Conjugates” which reviews the history of the successes and failures in ADC payloads and takes a look at the new roads currently explored by the industry. The company was founded in 2018 by Warren Viricel and Jean-Guillaume Lafay, with Jean-Guillaume Lafay serving as CEO since then.

Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biotechnology company that specializes in developing engineered cell-based therapies and in vivo reprogramming to restore vision for individuals with degenerative ocular diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, UK and was founded in 2020. Tenpoint Therapeutics brings together experts who are shaping the regenerative ocular medicine revolution and the technologies that are driving it. The company's focus is on replacing diseased cells with healthy ones to permanently restore vision. Eddy Anglade has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

EpiBiologics, Inc. is an American biotech company that is developing a protein degradation platform to target membrane and extracellular proteins. The company is headquartered in an undisclosed location and is backed by leading healthcare investors. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. EpiBiologics' proprietary epitac platform is an antibody-based system that can precisely degrade disease-driving proteins in a tissue-specific manner. EpiBiologics aims to develop first-in-class and targeted therapies for cancer, immunology, and neurological diseases. The company was founded in 2022 by Dr. Jim Wells of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Ann Lee-Karlon has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. The firm’s novel antiviral drug candidates addresses the limitations of CHB therapies. The company was founded in 2009 by Osvaldo Flores, Ali Munawar and George D. Hartman and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.