Aron M. Knickerbocker

ALZA Corp. provides drug delivery solutions and develops pharmaceutical products. The company applies its delivery technologies to develop pharmaceutical products with enhanced therapeutic value for its own portfolio and for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Martin Gerstel and Alejandro Zaffaroni in 1968 and is headquartered in Vacaville, 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.

Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages in the discovery and development of novel protein therapeutics. Its product candidates includes, Cabiralizumab (FPA008), Bemarituzumab (FPA144), and FPA150. The FPA008 is an antibody that inhibits colony stimulating factor-1, or CSF1, receptor, or CSF1R, that are developing in rheumatoid arthritis and plan to clinically develop in pigmented villonodular synovitis, or PVNS, and in combination with nivolumab in multiple cancers. The FPA144 is an antibody that inhibits fibroblast growth factor receptor 2b, or FGFR2b, that are developing to treat patients with gastric cancer. The FPA150 is a CD8 T cell checkpoint which targets B7-H4 that is developing as a monotherapy in multiple cancers. The company was founded by Lewis T. Williams in December 2001 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, C.

KAHR Medical Ltd. develops novel fusion protein pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Its drug pipeline is built around the signal converter proteins a unique class of multi-functional therapeutic agents that convert signals sent from one cell to another. The firm?s therapeutic proteins integrate two functional units, enabling each one to elicit multiple cooperative functional endpoints. The company was founded by Mark L. Tykocinski in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Phenomic AI, Inc. develops machine-learning technology for drug discovery. It provides application of deep learning to biological imaging screens and chemo-informatics. The company was founded by Oren Kraus and Sam Cooper and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Aulos Bioscience, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.