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Cephalon, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. It engages in the discovery and development of medicines for central nervous system disorders, pain, and cancer. The company was founded on August 24, 1987 by Frank Baldino, Jr. and is headquartered in Frazer, PA.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CARsgen Therapeutics Co., Ltd. develops an immunotherapy cancer treatment. It develops a novel cell-based immunotherapy using T-cells carrying chimeric antigen receptor technology for cancer treatment. The company was founded by ZongHai Li in 2014 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

CPA Australia Ltd. is an Australian company that has been operating since 1954 and provides education, training, technical support, and advocacy services in the accounting profession. The private company is based in Southbank, Australia and has subsidiaries in Hong Kong. The company engages with governments, regulators, and industries to advocate for policies that stimulate sustainable economic growth. With over 166,000 members working in 100 countries and regions, CPA Australia is one of the world's largest accounting bodies. It was founded in 1886 by Andrew Lyell, Arthur Cleveland, Benjamin Doughty Smith, Thomas Brentnall, John McAlister Howden, Charles Morell Holmes, William Crellin, and Edward Langton. Andrew Paul Hunter has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Secure Transfusion Solutions, Inc. is a life sciences company based in Austin, TX that aims to increase the quality, safety, and availability of transfusable blood components, starting first with apheresis platelets. STS provides healthcare institutions with safe and consistent service and true supply chain diversification. By partnering with STS, hospital systems diversify their sourcing risks, strengthening their supply chain and putting them in position to meet the transfusion needs of their patients. Customers of STS include some of the most well-respected and innovative medical institutions in the country. The company was founded by Vijai P. Mohan and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

CellChorus LLC is a company that applies artificial intelligence to visually evaluate the performance of individual immune cells such as T cells and NK cells over time. The company is based in South San Francisco, CA and was founded by Navin Varadarajan and Laurence James Neil Cooper. The company uses time-lapse imaging microscopy in nanowell grids (TIMING) with neural network-based AI to identify cells and evaluate their activity. The company's patent-protected platform can link TIMING data and insights with information from other analysis modalities to provide a comprehensive understanding of cellular function, state, and phenotype for the life sciences industry. CellChorus conducts dynamic single-cell analysis at scale and has been featured in various publications such as Blood, Leukemia, and Nature Immunology. Daniel Meyer has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Tricor Services Ltd. provides accounting and consulting services. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries is an independent professional body that promotes the role of its members in formulating and implementing good governance policies. The private company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. It also aims to develop the profession of chartered secretary and chartered governance professional in mainland China. The institute was established in 1949 as an association of members of the Chartered Governance Institute and gained local status in 1994. It has more than 6,000 members and 3,200 students.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

The Chartered Governance Institute provides governance and compliance services. The company was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Yishengbio Co., Ltd. is an investment holding company that engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of vaccines and therapeutic biologics for infectious diseases and cancer. It focuses on the PIKA immunomodulation technology platform and production, sale of YSJA rabies vaccine. Its geographical segment include Mainland China, and other countries. The company was founded by Yi Zhang on November 16, 2020 and is headquartered in China.

Shukun (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development of artificial-intelligence (AI) medical image diagnosis platform and the provision of intelligent diagnosis and treatment solutions. The company was founded by Chun’e Ma and Xin Sheng Mao on June 22, 2017 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

FWD Group Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of insurance products and services. It operates through the following segments: Hong Kong and Macau, Thailand and Cambodia, Japan, Emerging Markets, and Corporate and Others. The Emerging Markets segment includes business operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. The Corporate and Others segment represents the expenditure to support regulatory and compliance activities, as well as the business units across the finance, information technology and digital, investments, and distribution areas. The company was founded on March 18, 2013 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

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.

Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Dipp and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

A-Alpha Bio, Inc. designs and develops a drug discovery platform. The firm offers AlphaSeq platform. The company was founded by Randolph Lopez and David Younger in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Vineti, Inc. develops software for scaling and digital solutions for cell and gene therapies. The firm focuses on enabling life changing autologous therapies, supporting standards, and developing infrastructure that will expand patient access through expedited discovery, delivery and regulation in the field. The company was founded by Heidi Hagen, Malek Faham, Amy DuRoss and Razmik Abnous and is headquartered in San Francisco CA.

ZappRx, Inc. develops prescription and prior authorization platform services. It provides healthcare providers, specialty pharmacies, biopharmacies, and security standards solutions. The company was founded by Zoe Barry in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. develops cell and gene therapeutics that employ precise exogenous control of transgenes for improved safety and efficacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Inc. provides research, development, and manufacturing capabilities in cell therapy and genetic engineering. The company was founded by Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Fred Ramsdell, Alexander Rudensky, and Qizhi Tang in 2019 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Sotio Biotech AS is a member of the PPF Group and is based in Prague, Czechia. The Czech company is focused on developing cancer immunotherapies and has a robust clinical pipeline that includes a differentiated superagonist of the immuno-oncology target IL-15, currently being tested in phase II clinical trials. The pipeline also includes SOT102, a next-generation claudin-18.2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate, BOXR1030, a metabolically-enhanced CAR-T cell therapy targeting GPC3-expressing tumors, and other molecules approaching clinical stage such as SOT201, a next-generation PD-1-inhibiting cytokine. Three programs will enter phase I clinical testing within the next 12 months, including SOT201, BOXR1030, and SOT102.