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Q Therapeutic Products, Inc. develops novel products to treat debilitating and fatal diseases. The company was founded by Dennis B. Farrar and Mahendra S. Rao in 2004 and is headquartered in Salt Lake, UT.

Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. develops and commercializes quantitative blood tests for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. It develops quantitative, objective, reproducible blood tests to provide rheumatologists with deeper clinical insight to help enable more effective management of patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Mike B. Centola and Christopher L. Sutton in July 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Q Therapeutics, Inc. engages in developing adult stem cell therapies to treat debilitating disease of the central nervous system. Its product, Q-Cells will undergo first-in-human trials for ALS. The firm’s therapeutic strategy is intended to restore the normal activity of neurons by providing the support functions present in healthy central nervous system tissue. The company was founded by Dennis B. Farrar, Mahendra S. Rao, Mani Ramaswami, and Steven Goldman in March 2002 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Medtronic Monitoring, Inc. treats cardiac arrhythmias. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Analyte Health, Inc. provides medical services and information about specific health conditions online. It offers access to healthcare via the phone and the web to a national team of doctors and partner diagnostic labs. The company was founded by Michelle Sobel, John Kawa and Daniel Malven in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GE Ventures LLC (GE Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of General Electric Co. founded in 2000 by James Kim. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Brigham & Women's Hospital, Inc. provides health care services. The firm offers treatment for cancer, cardio vascular, neurosciences, orthopedic, arthritis, women's health and clinical services. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

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.

Angeleno Group LLC (Angeleno Group) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Yaniv Tepper, Daniel Weiss, and Zeb Rice. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The National Academies of Science operates as a private non-profit organization that provides advice in sciences, engineering and medicine. It conducted through seven major program areas: Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Earth and Life Studies, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Health and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, Transportation Research Board, and the Gulf Research Program. The company was founded on March 3, 1863 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Life Technologies Clinical Services Lab, Inc. offers clinically guided personal genetic testing services for customers. The firm develops and commercializes genetics-based products and services to enhance individual health and wellness; and educates and empowers individuals and their physicians by providing personalized genetic insights about disease risk and medication response to catalyze behavior change and inform clinical decision-making. The company was founded by David B. Agus and Dietrich A. Stephan in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Women Corporate Directors is a membership organization of women directors of public and large private companies. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in Italy. The company was founded by Mary Beth Vitale, Véronique Morali, Linda Eskind Rebrovick, Deborah A. Peacock, and Darcy A. Howe. The CEO is Susan C. Keating.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

TMune Therapeutics, Inc. provides cancer treatment research and technology development services. It focuses on the development of T-cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The firm's proprietary cell activation technology is used and administered in patients, who are undergoing treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, and HIV. The company was founded by Louis P. Berneman in 2008 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

The Engine Accelerator, Inc. (The Engine) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

OncoNano Medicine, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops pH-activated compounds that digitalize and exploit the variability of pH in disease. The company was founded by Ravi Srinivasan, Jinming Gao, and Baran Sumer in 2014 and is headquartered in Southlake, TX.

Aralez Bio is an American company that specializes in the production of noncanonical amino acids using biocatalysis. The company's process involves a single step enzyme synthesis that can produce hundreds of tryptophan analogs. The company was founded in 2019 by Frances Hamilton Arnold, Christina Boville, and David Romney. Christina Boville has been the CEO since 2019.

Catalio Capital Management LP (Catalio Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

National Resilience, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and technology company, which engages in the development of vaccines. It offers virus production, formulations, RNA modalities, and CMC development. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Generate Biomedicines, Inc. is a drug generation company that has developed a machine learning-powered multimodality generative biology platform capable of generating new drugs on demand across a wide range of biologic modalities. Generate Biomedicines is based in Somerville, MA. The platform seamlessly integrates computational and wet lab capabilities, improving the speed at which targets and therapeutics are identified and validated, the specificity of target engagement by generated proteins, and the cost of identifying and developing clinical candidates. The company's platform represents a potentially fundamental shift in what's possible in the field of therapeutic development, addressing key challenges of drug discovery and drastically expanding the available search space for novel biomedicines. The company was founded in 2018 by Poorya Hosseini, Molly Gibson, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Avak Kahvejian, Gevorg Grigoryan. Michael T. Nally has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Category Leader Partner Corp. I is a blank check company that is formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 26, 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Altos Labs is a biotechnology company that focuses on cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company's goal is to reverse disease and transform medicine. Altos Labs was founded by Rick Klausner and Hans Edgar Bishop. The CEO is Hal V. Barron.