Alon Lazarus

Paros Bio, Inc. is a company that specializes in gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. The company is based in Boston, MA. Specifically, they are developing a gene replacement approach to treat autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease caused by mutations in the presenilin 1 gene. The company's therapy directly addresses the underlying genetic cause of the disease.

Bluejay Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage private biopharmaceutical company that is committed to developing effective treatments and cures for viral and liver diseases. The company is based in San Mateo, CA, and was founded by Keting Chu, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's first target indication is chronic hepatitis b, which is a worldwide prevalent disease with an urgent unmet medical need. Bluejay is advancing two innovative approaches with the potential for a high rate of functional cure: fully human igg1 anti-hbs monoclonal antibodies and first-in-class hbsag oral small molecule inhibitors. The company believes that by reducing hepatitis b surface antigen and restoring adaptive immunity, a functional cure could be achieved for patients.

Locki Therapeutics Ltd. is a British preclinical stage biotechnology company founded in 2019. The company is based in London, UK. Locki Therapeutics is developing a new class of drugs that enhance the function of beneficial proteins. The company has designed its proprietary encompass™ platform to create enhancement-targeting chimeric (entac™) medicines. These entacs harness the ability of dubs to regulate proteins, expanding the universe of treatable diseases.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Auron Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It aims to cure cancer by radically changing the paradigm of cancer therapeutics from cell killing to transformation of malignant cells into more normal functioning cells. The company was founded by Kate Yen, Matt Vander Heiden, Ross Levine, and Eytan Stein and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA.

Arkin Bio Ventures (Arkin Bio) is a venture capital arm of Arkin Holdings founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Lutris Pharma Ltd. is working on the improvement of the anti-cancer therapy effectiveness and the quality of life for patients that are treated with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors. The company was founded on December 14, 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Entact Bio, Inc. is a company that focuses on creating new medicines by enhancing protein function. The company is based in Watertown, MA. The company is a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, drug creators, and problem solvers who work together to bring new medicines to patients who currently have few options. The CEO of the company is Victoria M. Richon. The founder of the company grew up in chaos and instability in an undisclosed capital city and has always been passionate and motivated to help enhance and provide medical solutions.