John F. Wood

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada focuses on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and commercializes medicines for diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on September 29, 1987 by Howard E. Greene, Jr. and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

IQVIA RDS Consulting, Inc. provides global regulatory, compliance, and validation consulting services. The company offers strategic regulatory consulting in the areas of quality systems development and optimization, FDA enforcement solutions, validation, and bioresearch monitoring. It provides services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The company was founded in 2001 and is located in Vernon Hills, IL.

IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. used to develop and commercialize targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company’s products used to act chiefly through immune system mechanisms, exerting their effect by binding to specific, readily targeted immune cells in the patient’s blood or lymphatic system. The company was headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Gensia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products for cardiovascular diseases. The company is based in San Diego, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Robert L. Engler, Paul K. Laikind.

Neothetics, Inc. operates as a holding company, which provides clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical and developing therapeutics for the aesthetic. It focuses on localized fat reduction and body contouring. The company products include LIPO-202, is an injectable formulation of the long-acting ß2-adrenergic receptor agonist, salmeterol xinafoate. Neothetics was founded by John D. Dobak in February 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Tocagen, Inc. is a clinical-stage, cancer-selective gene therapy company, which engages in the development of product candidates designed to activate a patient's immune system against their own cancer. It is in the business of discovery, development, and commercialization of products for the treatment of cancer. The company was founded by Thomas E. Darcy, Harry E. Gruber, Douglas J. Jolly, and Dennis N. Berman in August 2007 and is headquartered San Diego, CA.

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors. It offers drugs for treatment in the field of cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Dominic P. Behan and Jack Lief on April 14, 1997 and is headquartered in Park City, UT.