Tyrell J. Rivers

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.

Goldfinch Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on discovering and developing precision therapies for patients with kidney disease. The firm develops and manufactures medicines. The company was founded by Joseph Vincent Bonventre, Anna Greka, Fridhelm Hildebrandt, Daniel MacArthur, Stefan Somlo and Peter Mundel in December 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Viela Bio, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company, which engages in the development and commercialization of treatment for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The firms product candidate includes inebilizumab, which is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb), designed to target CD19, a molecule expressed on the surface of a broad range of immune system B cells; VIB4920, which is a fusion protein designed to bind to CD40L on activated T cells, blocking their interaction with CD40-expressing B cells and potentially other binding partners; and VIB7734, which is a humanized mAb intended to be a novel treatment for autoimmune diseases where the pathology is driven principally by overproduction of type I interferons and other cytokines secreted by pDCs. The company was founded on December 11, 2017 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Quell Therapeutics Ltd. is a London-based biotechnology company, which develops immune cell therapies to target transplant rejection, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It develops engineered T regulatory cell therapies for a variety of non-cancer targets. The company was founded on March 19, 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

VaxEquity Ltd. is a UK biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Professor Robin Shattock, the head of immunology of infection at Imperial College and Morningside. The company is based in Little Chesterford, UK. The British company is developing transformative RNA therapeutics and vaccines using its next-generation self-amplifying RNA platform called SARNA. The platform provides extended duration of protein expression, enabling lower doses to be used for vaccines and higher protein levels to be achieved for therapeutics. VaxEquity is pioneering a next-generation approach by modifying its SARNA to modulate the innate immune response and thereby overcoming current limitations. The flexibility of the company's platform ensures that its broad pipeline of assets can be designed, developed, and manufactured rapidly and at scale.