Robert S. Cohen

NitroMed, Inc. develops and supplies pharmaceuticals. It offers BiDil, an orally administered medicine for the treatment of heart failure. The firm also develops products for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. develops pharmaceutical products for the treatment of debilitating central nervous system (CNS) disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. The company was founded by Axel Unterbeck in 1998 and is headquartered in Montvale, NJ.

Shire Laboratories was a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing products for its own portfolio and in partnership with other companies, using its technologies and development capabilities. The company products include CollaGenex, Indevus, Shire and United Therapeutics. Its key technologies are ProScreen, OptiScreen , Microtrol, Solutrol and EnSoTrol, for bioavailability enhancement and oral controlled release, and Avert for reduced-abuse potential. Shire Laboratories was headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Pharmavene, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. The company develops drug delivery and screening technologies to produce optimal delivery of particular pharmaceutical products. Its technologies include proprietary Peptitrol systems for oral delivery of hard-to-deliver compounds, oral controlled-release and sustained-release delivery, transmucosal delivery through tissues in oral cavity and transdermal delivery. Pharmavene is headquartered in Rockville, MD.