Karen J. Martell

Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc. Provides pharmaceutical management services. Its services include electronic order entry, medication and treatment administration, and management and reporting, in-house pharmacy, car coded med-pass packs, and pharmacy response. The firm also offers transition services such as data transfer, training, and installation and se-up. The company was founded by Gary Duty, Lena Sturgeon, and William J. Gatti in 2001 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Santarus, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded on December 6, 1996 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Silverback Asset Management LLC (Silverback) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The firm was founded by Elliot Bossen in 2002. Silverback offers investment solutions for qualified institutional investors which includes pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices and others.

Vertos Medical, Inc. develops and markets minimally invasive devices for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. Its product is called mild devices, which conists of mild Tissue Sculpter, mild Portal, mild Trocar and Handle, mild Bone Sculpter Rongeur, mild Portal Stabilizer, mild Depth Guide, and mild Surgical Clamp. The company was founded by David Solsberg and Donald F. Schomer in 2005 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops heparin to ameliorate cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injuries. It also develops medications to enhance the safety and effectiveness of existing cancer treatments. The firm provides Disulfiram + copper Chelate that includes non-overlapping cancer stem cell killing mechanisms of actions. The company was founded in 2013 by Thomas P. Kennedy, Neil William Flanzraich and Stephen G. Marcus and is headquartered in Weston, FL.

Optivia Biotechnology, Inc. provides contract research organization offering drug transporter research services and solutions to biotechnology, pharmaceutical and academic organizations. It offers regulatory DDI studies, transporter screening, tranporter profiling, and custom development services. The firm's products include TransFlex Single Transporter Assay Plates,TransFlex Multi-Transporter Model Plates, and Certified Efflux Transporter Vesicles. The company was founded by Yong Huang, Pascal Druzgala and Peter G. Milner in 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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.

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.

CHL Healthcare Partners LLC (CHL Medical Partners) is a venture capital firm co-founded in 1997 by Jeff Collinson, Tim Howe and Ron Lennox. The firm is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

DAFNA Capital Management LLC (DAFNA Capital) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Nathan Fischel in1999 and is a subsidiary of DAFNA Holdings LP. DAFNA Capital provides investment advisory services with respect to one or more private investment funds.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides medical services. It offers patient care, biomedical research, teaching, and community services. It also provides organ transplantation, breast cancer care, and cardiac surgery services. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bay City Capital LLC (Bay City Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Fred Craves, John Diekman, and Thomas Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in California, United States.

FlowCardia, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures endovascular devices. It offers flowmate Injector to optimize the performance of crosser cto recanalization and crosser catheter, a minimally-invasive endovascular device. The firm also provides portfolio of catheter-based technologies to facilitate guidewire crossing of totally occluded coronary and peripheral arteries. The company was founded by Henry Nita and Erik T. Engelson in 2001 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

University of Rochester Medical Center operates a medical center which offers healthcare, education and research services. It offers funding in biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oral biology and musculoskeletal research services. The firm’s departments include AIDS Center, Audiology and Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute. The company was founded by Abraham Flexner and Benjamin Rush Rhees in 1921 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Gentis, Inc. engages in the development and testing technologies for the minimally invasive treatments. The company was founded by Charles Cohen and Paul Ducheyne in 2000 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Gem Pharmaceuticals LLC operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops anthracycline derivatives used to eliminate cardiotoxicity side effect in chemotherapeutics. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Urgent Care Centers of New England, Inc. provides neighborhood urgent health care services. It offers blood tests, EKG, common medications, labs, occupational medicine, routine physical exams, vaccinations and health screening and X-ray services. The company provides allergic reactions, children's illnesses and injuries and travel care services. CareWell Urgent Care was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Quincy, MA.

Part of Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Jade Therapeutics, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT. The company was founded by Barbara Wirostko. Jade Therapeutics was acquired by Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on March 07, 2016 for $5.10 million.

Cennerv Pharmaceuticals Ltd. engages in the pharmaceutical development specializing in CNS disorders with an initial focus on mental health such as depression, insomnia, dementia, schizophrenia and autism. The company was founded on July 13, 2015 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Healthinvest Equity Partners (Healthinvest Equity) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Wilfred Jaeger M.D. The firm is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut.

Concarlo Holdings LLC operates as a biotechnology firm. It specializes in drug development. The company was founded by Stacy Blain and LisaMarie Casey and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Alucent Biomedical Inc. operates as a biomedical company. It focuses on transforming the way vascular disease is treated by which natural vascular scaffolding (NVS) is a breakthrough technology developed to address the unmet need of patients with difficult-to-treat peripheral artery disease (PAD). The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Amyriad Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Los Angeles, CA. Amyriad Therapeutics, Inc. focuses on developing therapies for the relief of Alzheimer's disease symptoms. The company was founded by Christian Angermayer, Thomas Hanke, Anil K. Ratty, Marlon Braumann. The CEO is Sharon L. Rogers.