Keith E. Dionne

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.

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, 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.

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.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

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.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center operates as cancer treatment center. The company was founded by John Warren in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Edimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides biopharmaceutical products for improving the health and quality of life of families living with XLHED. It has developed EDI200 as a treatment for X-linked Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia (XLHED), which is a rare orphan disease that causes symptoms including lack of sweat glands, poor temperature control, respiratory problems, and hair and tooth malformations. The company was founded by Pascal Schneider and Olivier Gaide in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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

The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research provides funding for medical research. The private company is based in New Haven, CT. The fund was established in 1937 by the Childs Family in memory of Jane Coffin Childs, who passed away from cancer in 1936. The organization offers fellowships to researchers, and applicants must submit specific documents as outlined in the application guidelines.

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.

Tango Therapeutics, Inc. develops transformational new drugs for cancer patients. The company was founded by Alan Ashworth, Jos? Baselga, Levi Garraway, Timothy K. Lu, Antoni Ribas and William G. Kaelin, Jr. in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, TwistDx Ltd. is a British company that specializes in recombinase polymerase amplification technology. The company is based in Maidenhead, UK. The company offers TwistAmp research kits for researchers to develop tests, assays, and kits relevant to their work in fields such as water testing, biodefense, food species verification, and clinical or veterinary diagnostics. The company can work with partners on specific assay development collaborations for research and commercial applications. The company offers devices and accessories for research and development use only. The company was founded in 2002 by Niall Armes, Derek Stemple, Nagesh K. Mahanthappa.

Hexagon Bio, Inc. operates as a data-driven biotechnology company. It engages in mining of fungal genome data for drugs. The company was founded by Maureen E. Hillenmeyer, Brian T. Naughton, Colin James Bell Harvey and Yi Tang and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Rheos Medicines, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical firm. It develops novel medicines that modulate metabolic pathways in immune cells to treat disease. The company was founded by Erika Pearce, Edward Pearce, Laurence Turka, Richard Flavell, Ken Smith, and E. William St. Clair and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Camena Bioscience Ltd. is a British biotechnology company that produces long and complex synthetic genes. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 by Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey has been the CEO since 2016.

Exo Therapeutics, Inc. engages in production of drugs. It has developed a small-molecule enzyme inhibitor discovery platform that targets distal binding pockets of enzymes (exo-sites) that are not evolutionarily conserved. The company was founded by David R. Liu and Alan Saghatelian and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Kojin Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a small-molecule therapeutics company. It focuses on translating deep biological insight into the plasticity of human cell states to develop therapeutics for cancer, fibrosis, ischemia and immune modulation. The company was founded by Benjamin Cravatt, Stephanie K. Dougan and Stuart L.Schreiber and is headquartered in the United States.

Abata Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotech company based in Watertown, MA. Abata Therapeutics is focused on developing engineered Treg cell therapies for severe autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The American company's lead programs are in ind-enabling studies for progressive multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, both of which are tissue-specific autoimmune diseases with significant unmet needs. The company has developed a differentiated product engine to create tissue-specific, robust, and durable therapies. Abata Therapeutics was launched by Third Rock Ventures, with participation from a diverse syndicate of investors, including ElevateBio, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Invus, Samsara Biocapital, and the JDRF T1D Fund. The company was founded in 2021 by Richard Ransohoff and the CEO is Samantha Singer.

Third Rock Ventures LLC (Third Rock Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Mark Levin, Robert Tepper, Kevin Starr and Nick Leschly. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ablexis LLC develops next-generation platform for antibody drug discovery. It develops the AlivaMab Mouse, an innovative, next-generation transgenic mouse platform intended to enable the efficient discovery and development of the next generation of human therapeutic antibodies. The company was founded by Green L. Larry and Hiroaki Shizuya in December 2009 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.