John Heffernan

Alkermes, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The company was founded by Michael A. Wall, Floyd E. Bloom, Frederick W. K. Brown, Paul R. Schimmel and Alexander G. Rich in 1987 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

EMD Millipore Corp. engages in the provision of laboratory materials, technologies, and services to the life science industry. The company was founded by Jack Bush in 1954 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

TARIS BioMedical LLC operates as a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. It specializes in urology, continuous local dosing, bladder diseases, oncology, voiding dysfunction. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer Jr., Christine Bunt, and Michael J. Cima in 2008 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

InVivo Therapeutics Corp. operates as a medical device company that develops groundbreaking technologies for the treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded by Joseph P. Vacanti and Robert S. Langer, Jr. in 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

StemBioSys, Inc. develops stem cell technologies. The firm develops technology on the isolation and expansion of specialized adult stem cells for clinical use. Its technology is called XC-marrowECM, which is a patented extracellular matrix laid down by human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. The company was founded by Xiao-Dong Chen and Steven A. Davis in 2010 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Living Proof, Inc. manufactures and supplies hair care products. Its products include shampoos, conditioners, styling treatments, overnight products, styling creams and mousses, nourishing creams, styling sprays, thickening mousses, thickening creams, root lifting sprays, mask treatments. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer, Jon Flint, Amir Nashat, Ward Stegernoek, Mitch DeRosa, and Daniel Anderson in September 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Children's Hospital Corp. engages in the provision of pediatric care services. It offers acupuncture, angioplasty, antibiotic allergy testing, audiogram, baclofen pump, biochemical genetic testing, blended diet, bone scan, brain scan, breast augmentation surgery, cardiac catheterization, cardiac MRI in children, chest reconstruction surgery, and CO2 laser treatment. The company was founded by Francis Henry Brown in 1869 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures drugs. It integrates pharmaceutical sciences, materials science and high throughput experimentation by enabling novel technology. The company was founded by Nicholas Galakatos in 1999 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Astellas Pharma US, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers cardiology, dermatology, immunology, infectious diseases, and urology. The firm was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd. engages in the development and sale of pharmaceutical products. The company is headquartered in Addlestone, the United Kingdom.

Noveome Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops novel biotherapeutic products that restore cell communication and system homeostasis. Its proprietary technology platform, derived from human placental cells, provides an exciting new approach to tissue regeneration and repair in a wide range of medical conditions and offers hope, especially in patients with maladies. The company was founded in 2001 by George L. Sing and William J. Golden and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

Golub & Co. LLC (Golub) is a real estate firm founded in 1960 by Eugene Golub. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of Astellas Pharma, Inc., Astellas US LLC is a company that manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Northbrook, IL. The CEO of the company is Kenji Yasukawa.

The Children's Medical Center Corp. operates as a non-profit hospital and research center. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for the treatment of cancer. The firm develops pharmaceutical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological, tumor and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Rakesh Kumar Jain, Andrew Werk Cook, Edwin L. Steele, David H. Koch, Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes and Robert S. Langer, Jr. in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products. The firm address the needs of those with central nervous system disorders, people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other diseases that have high, unmet medical needs. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Verseau Therapeutics, Inc. provides immuno-therapy services. The company was founded by Daniel Anderson, Robert Langer, Igor Feldman, and Tatiana Novobrantseva in 2017 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Suono Bio, Inc. develops therapeutics to the gastrointestinal tract which helps to cure diseases. The company was founded by Carl Schoellhammer, Robert S. Langer Jr., Amy W. Schulman, and Giovanni Traverso and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Alivio Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies to treat inflammatory disorders through targeted disease immunomodulation. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer, Jeffrey Karp, John LaMattima, Brian Leuthner, Bennett Shapiro, Eric Elenko, Joep Muijrers, and Stephen Muniz and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Glympse Bio, Inc. develops modular nanoparticle sensors to create diagnostics for diseases. It uses engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. The company was founded in 2015 by Sangeeta Bhatia and Gabe A. Kwong and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

LikeMinds, Inc. intends to make brain imaging part of the standard suite of healthcare diagnostic tests and technologies. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Avenge Bio, Inc. is an oncology-focused biotechnology company based in the United States. The American company develops cell-based immunotherapeutic products for the treatment of solid tumors using its proprietary Lococyte™ platform. The platform delivers engineered cells to the local tumor environment, generating high concentrations of immune effector molecules in proximity to the tumor, which initiates a robust, local, and durable systemic immune response while avoiding toxicities associated with systemic immunotherapies. Avenge's most advanced product candidate, AVB-001, produces native IL-2 immunotherapy and is initially being studied in metastatic peritoneal cancers such as ovarian cancer. The company has additional pipeline candidates for the treatment of a wide range of cancers, including pancreatic, lung, and breast cancers. Avenge was founded in 2019 by Paul Kevin Wotton and Michael Thomas Heffernan, with Heffernan serving as CEO since incorporation.

Seeing Medicines, Inc. is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company that develops regenerative medicine treatments to restore and maintain vision in people. The company is based in Arden, NC. Seeing Medicines was founded by Lucian Del Priore, Andrew Fowlie, Matthew Vincent, H. LeRoux Jooste, Edmund V. Mickunas. H. LeRoux Jooste has been the CEO since incorporation.

CHS Pharma, Inc. commercializes treatment for skin pre-cancerous disorders. It provides treatment and prevention for skin condition commonly known as Actinic Keratosis. The company was founded by Stephen Chakoff and Herbert Weissbach and is headquartered Jupiter, FL.

Eagle Biologics, Inc. provides bio technological solutions. It develops protein-based antibody drugs by use of technology. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Alex Klibanov, and Robert S. Langer Jr. in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.