Sam Chawla

Perceptive Advisors LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Joseph “Joe” Edelman in 1999. provides investment advice to private funds, separate accounts, and co-investment vehicles. Investors in the client accounts and co-investment vehicles consist primarily of institutional investors, financial institutions, other investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals.

VBI Vaccines, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of eVLP vaccine platform for the design of (e) virus-like-particle vaccines that closely mimic the target virus. The company also involves in the development of thermostable technology that enables the development of vaccines and biologics that can withstand storage or shipment at constantly fluctuating temperatures. VBI Vaccines was founded on July 25, 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Great Basin Scientific, Inc. is a molecular diagnostic testing company, which focuses on the development and commercialization of its patented, molecular diagnostic platform designed to test for infectious disease, especially hospital-acquired infections. The company was founded by David C. Ward, Anthony R. Torres and David Spafford on June 27, 2003 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC provides a variety of capital raising, market making, advisory and brokerage services for governments, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and corporate clients and affiliates. It is also a primary dealer in U.S. government securities and an underwriter, placement agent, and dealer for money market instruments, commercial paper, mortgage and other assetbacked securities, as well as a range of debt, equity and other convertible securities of corporations and other issuers. The company was founded on January 3, 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.