Charles Sigal

The J. David Gladstone Institutes operates as an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

Spark Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the research, development, and commercialization of gene therapies. Its product portfolio intends to treat inherited retinal sickness, liver-mediated, and neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Jean Bennett, Beverly Davidson, Katherine A. High, Jeffrey D. Marrazzo, J. Fraser Wright, and Jennifer Wellman on March 13, 2013 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Adaptimmune Ltd. develops T cell therapies to treat cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, and infectious diseases. It utilizes the T cell to target and destroy cancerous and infected cells by using affinity T cell receptor proteins as a means of strengthening patient T cell responses. The company was founded by Bent K. Jakobsen, James Julian Noble and Helena Katrina Tayton-Martin in 2008 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Surface Oncology, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, which engages in the provision of biological pathways critical to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment for the development of next-generation cancer therapies. The firm’s pipeline includes wholly-owned lead programs targeting CD39 (SRF617) and IL-27 (SRF388), as well as a preclinical program focused on depleting tumor regulatory T cells via targeting CCR8 (SRF114). Its pipeline also includes licensed product programs, such as a collaboration with Novartis targeting CD73 (NZV930, Phase 1) and a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline targeting PVRIG (SRF813, preclinical). The company was founded by David S. Grayzel in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Affinia Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical stage company, which engages in the research and development of gene therapy. It offers Affinia Rationally-designed Therapies (ART) platform, which develops novel therapies, focusing on the key components of a gene therapy: capsids, which are the outer shells of a virus used to package the genetic code to treat a disease; promoters, which control how the cells read the genetic code that is delivered; and manufacturing approaches, which determine the quality and cost of potential medicines. The company was founded by Luk Vandenberghe, Botond Roska, and Aaron Tward in 2019 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Tessera Therapeutics, Inc. engages in science company. It offers scientists and doctors the ability to write and rewrite small and large therapeutic messages into the genome, thereby curing diseases at their source. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.