Juswinder Singh

Biogen MA, Inc. is a biotechnology company principally engaged in discovering and developing drugs for human healthcare through genetic engineering. The company’s research and development activities used to focus on novel products for multiple sclerosis, inflammatory, respiratory, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, developmental biology and gene therapy. The company was founded by Daniel D. Adams in 1976 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Corixa Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops and manufactures oncology and immunology products. The firm offers vaccines, immunotherapeutic, monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics, adjuvant and antigen delivery systems, toxin-conjugated, and antigen-specific diagnostic products. The company was founded by Steven H. Gillis and Mark McDade in 1994 and is headquartered in Hamilton, MT.

Advent Venture Partners LLP (AVP) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1981 by David James Scott Cooksey. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Venatorx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel anti-infective agents to address the threat of antibiotic resistance. It offers antibiotic resistant bacteria and Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae a family of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to all known ?-lactam antibiotics, including penicillins, cephalosporins, monobactams, and carbapenems. The company was founded by Christopher J. Burns, Luigi Xerri, and Daniel Pevear in 2010 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Tekla Capital Management LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Formerly known as Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management LLC, the firm serves as an investment adviser for four closed-end funds – Tekla Healthcare Investors, Tekla Life Sciences Investors, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund and Tekla World Healthcare Fund.

Adnexus engages in the development of Adnectins biologics and medicines in the United States. The company was founded by Frank D. Lee on September 16, 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

Abingworth Management, Inc. invests in life sciences and biomedical companies. The firm's investment in enables technologies, devices and instrumentation as well as companies developing products in therapeutic areas. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PartsSource, Inc. sells replacement medical parts for hospital equipment. The firm operates proprietary technology platform eliminates friction from the healthcare supply chain by delivering evidence-based decision support and workflow automation. The company was founded by A. Ray Dalton in 2001 and is headquartered in Aurora, OH.

Decipher Biosciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage precision oncology company which engages in patient care improvement. The Company?s differentiated approach measures the biological activity of a patient?s entire tumor genome, known as whole transcriptome analysis, and applies proprietary machine learning algorithms to improve therapy selection and accelerate adoption of new therapies into the standard of care. Its novel prostate cancer genomic testing products examine the underlying biology of a patient?s tumor, enabling physicians to select an optimal therapy. The firm?s whole transcriptome analysis of clinical patient samples from its commercial channel and its participation in practice-changing clinical trials has allowed it to build and expand its Decipher GRID database GRID. The company was founded by Elai Davicioni, Timothy J. Triche, Bruce A. Schmidt, and Jonathan D. Buckley and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

TwistDX, Inc. provides scientific research and development services. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Nagesh K. Mahanthappa.

Scholar Rock, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on discovering and developing a novel class of biologic therapies that target supracellular activation of growth factors in the disease microenvironment. The company was founded by Timothy Springer and Leonard Zon and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Oculis SA focuses on ophthalmic drugs and novel drug delivery to the eye. The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME (diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. The company was founded by Einar Stefansson and Thorsteinn Loftsson in 2003is headquartered in Pully, Switzerland.

Dynacure SA is a clinical-stage company, which engages in developing and commercializing novel therapies to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases who have limited or no treatment options. Its product includes, DYN101, an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, designed to be a disease-modifying medicine for treatment of the majority of ntronuclear myopathies patients with multiple mutations in adult and pediatric populations. The company was founded by Belinda Cowling in 2016 and is headquartered in Illikirch-Graffenstaden, France.

Arrakis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops rna-targeted small molecule medicines focused on neurologic, cancer, and rare genetic diseases. The company was founded by Russell C. Petter, Alan E. Walts, Jennifer C. Petter and Raj Bhikhu Parekh in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

CuraSen Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It engages in the discovery and development of therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including parkinson, alzheimer, and less common neurodegenerative disorders. The company was founded by Mehrdad Shamloo, Robert Booth, Anthony Ford, and Kathleen Sereda in 2018 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

GenomeDx, Inc. operates as a genomic information company developing solutions for prostate cancer treatment and the management of other urologic cancers. It offers Decipher and Guidance test. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Aleta Biotherapeutics, Inc. engages in the immuno-oncology service that focuses on transforming cellular therapeutics. It allows broad spectrum of cancer indication to be targeted including currently intractable solid tumors. The company was founded by Paul Rennert and Roy Lobb and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Arkuda Therapeutics, Inc. engages in development of medicines to improve the lives of patients with neurological diseases. It leverages insights into progranulin and lysosomal biology to develop medicines to change the trajectory of neurodegenerative disease. The company was founded by Gerhard Koenig and Duane Burnett in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Flamingo Therapeutics BV is a Belgian company that specializes in developing RNA-targeted therapies for oncology. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium and was founded by Mike Garrett and Floor Stam. Flamingo is dedicated to delivering therapeutic benefit to patients living with cancer and believes that their programs and approach can successfully address large unmet medical needs where RNA-targeting can be effective. The company's clinical-stage pipeline focuses on targeting undruggable transcription factors and splice variants. The CEO is Stephane van Rooijen.

Priothera Ltd. engages in the development of orally delivered sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulators for hematological malignancies. The company was founded by Florent Gros, Shaval Patel, and Brice Suire in 2020 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.