Anthony Walsh

Asceneuron SA operates as a biotechnology company. It develops therapeutics for orphan tauopathis and Alzheimer?s disease. The firm specializes in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Dirk Beher, Frank Murdoch Armstrong and Christoph Wiessner in October 2012 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

True North Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of first-in-class product candidates for complement-mediated diseases. The company was founded by Nancy E. Stagliano in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. provides drug discovery services. It develops tetravalent, T-cell redirecting bispecific antibodies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. The firm’s’ lead drug candidate is AMV-564, a CD33/CD3-targeting treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which Amphivena is currently preparing to advance into clinical development. The company was founded by Jeanmarie Guenot in December 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Blade Therapeutics, Inc. offers anti-fibrotic therapies to meet unserved patient needs. Its product portfolio is to address various fibrotic diseases and their underlying pathophysiology. The company was founded by Hal Dietz and Wendye R. Robbins and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Inspirna, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics. It provides drugs for melanoma, colorectal and triple-negative breast cancers. The firm identifies novel cancer targets using a microRNA based target discovery platform that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. The company was founded by Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail Tavazoie, Shahram Seyedin-Noor and Saeed Tavazoie in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Redona Therapeutics, Inc.operates as a biotechnology company focused on the modulation of non- RNA (ncRNA) function to treat cancer and other human diseases. It uses small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease. The company was founded by George Daley, Richard Gregory, Frank Slack, and Piotr Sliz and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Mediar Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics to halt, reverse and fibrosis. The company was founded by Paul Yaworsky in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Syntimmune, Inc. engages in the research and development of therapeutics for autoimmune diseases based on neonatal Fc receptor biology. Its pipeline include SYNT001 which has target indication for dermatology, hematology, and neurology. It also focuses on pre-clinical investigation of SYTN002 and related compounds such as peptide mimetics. The company was founded by Laurence J. Blumberg and Richard S. Blumberg in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Muna Therapeutics ApS is a Danish private biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops therapies to slow or stop neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's. Muna Therapeutics is based in Copenhagen, DK and was founded in 2020 by Simon Glerup and Bart de Strooper. The company focuses on identifying new medicines to preserve cognition and other brain functions and enhance resilience to these diseases. Rita Balice-Gordon has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Mozart Therapeutics, Inc. is a company focused on developing first-in-class disease-modifying therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, with a therapeutic focus on autoimmune mediated gastro-intestinal disorders. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company utilizes a novel approach to restoring immune system function by targeting the CD8 T regulatory network. Mozart Therapeutics is advancing a pipeline of first-in-class ‘CD8 Treg modulators’ designed to restore durable immune balance. The CEO of the company is Katie Fanning.

Nitrase Therapeutics, Inc. develops drugs against newly discovered nitration enzyme. The firm provides disease modifying drugs for multiple additional aging-dependent diseases, such as neurodegenerative disease, heart disease and cancer. The company was founded by Irene Griswold-Prenner and is headquartered in Jackson, WY.

NodThera Ltd. researches and develops novel inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome. The company is headquartered in Little Chesterford, the United Kingdom.

Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

iOmx Therapeutics AG develops immunotherapy treatments for cancer patients. It specializes in immuno oncology, drug development and cancer therapy. The company was founded by Nisit Khandelwal, Philipp Beckhove, Patrick Baeuerle, Sebastian Meier-Ewert and Elmar Maier in March 2016 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Delinia, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops novel therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Its main program is a molecule that potentiates and expands Regulatory T Cells, powerful immune cells that are critical to maintaining self-tolerance and immune system homeostasis. Tregs are critically important immune regulatory cells in the path physiology of cancer and autoimmune disease. Delinia was founded by Michael Rosenblum and Jeffrey Greve in 2015 and is headquartered in Summit, NJ.

Affinicon ApS operates as a biotechnology company. It develops combinatory drugs for treatment of diseases such as inflammation, infections, and certain forms of cancer. The firm exploits a novel platform technology for targeted delivery of known drugs to macrophages. The company was founded by Niels Jonas Heilskov Graversen on July 4, 2013 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

Avilex Pharma ApS develops and produces drugs to treat brain damage with the uses of dimeric ligands. It also develops novel inhibitors to target a range of unmet medical needs. The firm uses dimeric ligands that targets intracellular with unprecedented potency. The company was founded by Kristian Strømgaard and Anders Bach on December 27, 2012 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

EpiTherapeutics ApS is a holding company that develops cancer drugs based on research in the field of epigenetics. Its development programs are focused on enzymes involved in the regulation of transcription in cancer - current programs target histone demethylases and methyltransferases. The firm's regulation is commonly used for post-translational covalent modifications of histones and other chromatin-remodeling complexes, which determines whether a gene is accessible and hence, expressed or repressed. Its covalent modifications involved in epigenetic regulation include deoxyribonucleic acid methylation, histone acetylation, and histone methylation. The company was founded by Kristian Helin, Paul Andreas Compare Cloos, Jesper Aagaard Christensen, Karl Agger, and Klaus Hansen on September 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Greve, Denmark.

Abcuro, Inc. develops bio-therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmunity and cancer. the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Alantos Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc. manufactures bio-pharmaceutical products. The firm develops small molecule compounds for inflammatory cytokine pathways. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Canaan Management, Inc. (Canaan Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Eric A. Young. The firm is headquartered in Westport, CT.

SR One Capital Management LP (SR One) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Redwood, California.

NanoDimension Management (NanoDimension) Ltd is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Aymeric Sallin. The firm is headquartered in George Town.

RADD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a company based in Westport, CT. The CEO of the company is Colleen Cuffaro.

New England Venture Capital Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which operates as a catalyst, and advocate, and a resource for the innovation economy. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Arrakis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops rna-targeted small molecule medicines focused on neurologic, cancer, and rare genetic diseases. The company was founded by Russell C. Petter, Alan E. Walts, Jennifer C. Petter and Raj Bhikhu Parekh in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

MedImmune LLC develops medicines for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases such as cancer and immune system disorders. It offers solutions in the areas of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines for infection, oncology, respiratory disease and inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, and neuroscience. The company was founded by Wayne T. Hockmeyer in 1988 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Omthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as pharmaceuticals company which focuses on the clinical development of new therapies for dyslipidemia. The company was founded by Jerry Wisler and Michael Davidson in 2008 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Vtesse, Inc. provides novel drugs for life-threatening rare diseases. It developed VTS-270, a modified form of cyclodextrin that has been evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies at institutes within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to treat patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC). The firm is working with the NIH and other leading academic centers to advance clinical study of VTS-270 for NPC, and to conduct pre-clinical discovery and development of other novel drugs for NPC and other LSDs. The company was founded by Ben Machielse in 2015 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Shanghai ChemPartner Co., Ltd. operates as a contract research organization. It provides chemistry, biology, pharmacology, DMPK, process R&D, pre-formulation, and analytical development services to global pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Part of Biogen, Inc., Biogen Idec, Inc. (North Carolina) is a pharmaceutical company based in Durham, NC. The company develops pharmaceutical products. Michel Pericles Vounatsos has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Novo Holding A/S provides financial investments and manages the Novo Nordisk Foundation?s assets. It offers seed and venture capital to development stage companies and takes ownership positions in companies within life science and biotechnology. The company was founded on September 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Calypso Biotech SA operates as a innovative biopharmaceutical company for gastrointestinal immunological disorders. The company was founded by Alain Vicari and Yolande Chvatchko in 2013 and is headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Germany.

Merck Ventures BV (Merck Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Merck KGaA founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.