Patricia A. Murphy

Biogen MA, Inc. is a biotechnology company principally engaged in discovering and developing drugs for human healthcare through genetic engineering. The company’s research and development activities used to focus on novel products for multiple sclerosis, inflammatory, respiratory, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, developmental biology and gene therapy. The company was founded by Daniel D. Adams in 1976 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PAREXEL International Corp. provides biopharmaceutical services. It offers clinical research and logistics, medical communications, consulting, commercialization and advanced technology products and services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Berlex, Inc. manufactured pharmaceutical company. It developed novel diagnostics and therapeutics, which address unmet medical needs. It used to researches, develops, manufactures and markets ethical pharmaceuticals in five strategic areas such as female healthcare, diagnostic imaging, dermatology, oncology and therapeutics. The company was headquartered in Wayne, NJ

Bayhill Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes therapeutics. Its technology is BHT-DNA. The firm is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary therapeutic BHT-DNA platform to develop a pipeline of novel and targeted treatment candidates for autoimmune diseases. Bayhill Therapeutics was founded by Lawrence Steinman, Hideki Garren, William H. Robinson and Paul J. Utz in 2001 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Galena Biopharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which develops and commercializes hematology and oncology therapeutics that address unmet medical needs. The company focuses on identifying and advancing therapeutic opportunities to improve cancer care from direct treatment of the disease to the reduction of its debilitating side effects. Its products include Abstral sublingual tablets and Zuplenz oral soluble film. The company was founded by Craig Mello on April 3, 2006 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

EMD Serono, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical firm. The firm develops recombinant prescription medicines. Its therapies include neurology and immunology, metabolic endocrinology, fertility, and oncology. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Rockland, MA.