Hal Barron

Arête Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes molecule drugs to treat cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. It focuses on developing AR9281, an orally-administered compound that inhibits s-EH (soluble epoxide hydrolase), an enzyme that plays a key role in the metabolism of arachidonic acid. It also focuses on testing various back-up candidates as additional first-in-class anti-hypertensive plus agents. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

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.

UCSF Medical Center owns and operates hospitals. It operates hospitals in San Francisco as well as satellite facilities. It provides health care facilities to children, organ transplants, cardiac care, fertility treatments, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It also provides outpatient care and some programs in areas as women's health, aging, cancer, and pain management. UCSF Medical Center is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company. It focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel proprietary products for the acute treatment of central nervous system conditions. Its product candidates are AZ-002 and AZ-007. The company was founded by Alejandro C. Zaffaroni in 2000 and is headquartered in Mountain View, 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.

Juno Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of innovative cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer. It offers platforms which includes chimeric antigen receptors and T-cell receptors. The company was founded by Hans Edgar Bishop, Lawrence Corey, Richard D. Klausner, Stan Riddell, Isabelle Riviere, and Robert Taylor Nelsen on August 5, 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of Alphabet, Inc., Calico LLC conducts research into the biology of aging. The company is based in South San Francisco, CA. Arthur D. Levinson has been the CEO of the company since 2013.