Jessica Lifton

aQuantive, Inc. designs and develops digital marketing services and provides related online solutions. The company offers services such as online media buying and planning, ad campaign management, e-mail direct marketing, search engine optimization, and data warehousing and analysis. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA

Vivo Capital LLC (Vivo Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Frank C. Kung and Edgar G. Engleman. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cellerant Therapeutics, Inc. develops stem cell-based cellular and antibody therapeutics for blood disorders and cancer. The firm focuses on curative therapies for seriously ill patients and is developing a cell-based medicine as a treatment for chemotherapy and radiation-induced neutropenia as well as for Acute Radiation Syndrome. The company was founded by Irving L. Weissman in 2003 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Surgical Specialties Corp. manufactures medical products. It specializes in designing and manufacturing of surgical knives and wound closure products. The firm offers suture needles, sutures, microsurgical cutting instruments, eye garters, and ophthalmic cannulas. The company is headquartered in Westwood, MA.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Nabriva Therapeutics GmbH is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of novel anti-infective agents to treat serious infections. It focuses on the pleuromutilin class of antibiotics. The company was founded by Rodger Novak in October 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Hongshan (Hongshan) is a venture and private equity is a subsidiary of SEQUOIA CAPITAL OPERATIONS LLC founded in 2005. The firm headquartered in Hong Kong.

Bird Rock Bio, Inc. develops protein therapeutics. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibodies with upsized potential that represent to antibody therapeutics. The company was founded by Richard J. Ulevitch, Phyllis Ellen Whiteley and Katherine S. Bowdish in 2007 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

China Kanghui Holdings operates as a holding company that develops, manufactures and markets orthopedic implants. The company was founded by Yi Kang Jiang on April 19, 2006 and is headquartered in Changzhou, China.

Rempex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops new therapies to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. It focuses on the discovery and development of new antibacterial drugs to meet the clinical need created by multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. The company was founded by Daniel Burgess, Michael Dudley and Jeffery Loutit in June 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Outpost Medicine LLC develops therapeutics for the treatment of urologic and gynecologic disorders. The company was founded by David Socks and Tachi Yamada in 2016 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Silicon Therapeutics LLC operates as an integrated computational drug discovery company that focuses on developing novel medicines for diseases. Its INSITE platform closely represents the dynamical nature of targets using all-atom simulations. The firm has offices in Boston and Shanghai. The company was founded by Lijun Sun, Peiqi Sun, Elliot L. Chaikof, and Finith Jernigan, III in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Shenzhen Jingtai Technology Co., Ltd. is a company that researches and develops biotechnology products. The company is based in Shenzhen, China. The Chinese company was founded in 2015 by Shu Hao Wen, Jian Ma, Li Peng Lai. Jian Ma has been the CEO since 2015.

NuProbe USA, Inc. engages in the development of ultra-sensitive and multiplexed platform with reagents for non-invasive nucleic acid profiling and diagnostics. The firm offers VarTrace EGFR Assay, VarTrace BFAR Assay, and VarTrace AML multi-gene panel. The company was founded by Peng Yin, David Yu Zhang, and Victor Chenyang Shi in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Refuge Biotechnologies, Inc. develops therapeutic cells. It is leveraging gene engineering technologies known as CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) to develop therapeutic cells that are programmed to make decisions inside the patient’s body. The firms programs include RB-1916, RB-H21 and RB-M1. The company was founded by Stanley Qi, David R. Parkinson and Bing C. Wang and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

iHuman Institute operates as a biological research organization and institute. The private company is based in Shanghai, China. The Chinese company was founded by Raymond C. Stevens.

ADARx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as RNA base-editing company. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Taizhou EOC Pharma Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development, and sale of drugs for tumor treatment. Its business segments include clinical trial research, pharmaceutical production, drug discovery and product introduction, drug registration, and product sales and commercialization. Its Clinical Trial Research segment involves in the clinical plan formulation, patient inclusion and exclusion criteria design, and primary and secondary endpoint indicators selection. Its Pharmaceutical Production segment supplies entinostat clinical trial drugs. Its Drug Discovery and Product Introduction segment implements drug discovery and research. Its Drug Registration segment manages product registration with drug regulatory department. Its Product Sales and Commercialization segment offers pharmaceutical academic promotion and sales agency assistance for pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Xin Ni and Xiao Ming Zou on October 21, 2010 and is headquartered in Taizhou, China.

Wuhan Neurophth Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is a leading in-vivo gene therapy company for ophthalmic diseases based in Wuhan, China. The Chinese company's core product, nr082 (nfs-01), is designed to treat ND4-mediated Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (ND4-LHON) and has been granted orphan drug designation (ODD) by the FDA and EMA. It is the first Chinese gene therapy new drug that has been granted IND approval for clinical trials by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and the FDA. The company's pipeline also includes ND1-mediated LHON, autosomal dominant optic atrophy, optic nerve protection, vascular retinopathy, and other preclinical candidates. The company was founded in 2016 by Bin Li, Su Xiao, Dabo Cai, and Bin Li has been the CEO since then.

German Medical Technology Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells disposable and implantable medical devices.

Upstream Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Waltham, MA, USA. The American company's lead program, upb-101, is a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the TSLP receptor, a validated target that affects various immune cells involved in common and rare diseases. Upstream Bio is leveraging its diverse roots and substantial industry experience to develop therapies that ease the burden of inflammatory and allergic diseases on patients and their loved ones. The company was founded by Eran Perry and Earn Perry, and Samantha Truex has been the CEO since 2021.