David Eckland

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private foundation located in Research Triangle Park, NC. The private company's mission is to serve and strengthen society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need. The CEO of the company is Louis J. Muglia.

GlaxoSmithKline LLC engages in discovering, developing, and delivering medicines, vaccines, and other healthcare products. It offers prescription medicines that treat various diseases, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, herpes, asthma, migraine, and heart diseases, as well as stomach and skin problems, infections, and flu. It also provides vaccines for children and adults; and over-the-counter products. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries & Assns is a trade association that promotes pharmaceutical discovery and development. The non-profit company is based in Brussels, Belgium.

CEO Roundtable on Cancer, Inc. promotes activities to reduce cancer risk, enable early detection, facilitate better access to treatment and hasten the discovery. Its programs include CEO cancer gold standard, life sciences consortium and project data sphere. The company was founded by George H. W. Bush in 2001 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops therapies for the treatment of pruritus. The company was founded by Stuart J. Collinson in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Healthcare Leadership Council operates as a organization focusing on the provision of a healthcare system. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Forum Mondial de L'Economie engages in the foremost political, business and cultural organizations to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The company was founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971 and is headquartered in Cologny, Switzerland.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Nuvelution Pharma, Inc. provides solutions for R&D companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The firm leverages its knowledge, experience and relationships in the Pharma and Biotech industries to deploy capital in risk-sharing collaborations with companies where product development can be facilitated by both capital and human resources, making this model an essential tool for pharma and biotech companies to bring products to the market. The company was founded by Sanford S. Zweifach and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Boston Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that leverages a drug development team to advance a portfolio of high value candidates that address important unmet medical needs. The company was founded by Robert Armstrong and Chris Viehbacher and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

BEFORE Brands, Inc. engages in the provision of pediatric nutritional products. It offers the SpoonfulOne, a line of childhood nutritional products designed to reduce food allergy development risk with key allergens. The company was founded by Ashley Ledbetter Dombkowski and Kari Nadeau in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Gurnet Point Capital LLC (Gurnet Point Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Fereydoun Firouz. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Alladapt Immunotherapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company developing prescription therapeutics targeting food allergy. The company was founded by Ashley Dombkowski and Kari Nadeau in 2018 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Crossover Health, Inc. provides worksite health and wellness services. It offers primary, ancillary, and advanced services, includes urgent care, occupational health, preventive care, chronic disease management, health risk assessment, health education, health coaching, biometrics, physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, specialist preferred network, care coordination, health analytics, and remote care. The company was founded by Scott Shreeve in 2010 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Project Data Sphere LLC is a private company that focuses on breaking down barriers to cancer clinical trial data sharing. The company is based in Morrisville, NC. The company believes that valuable trial data should ultimately benefit the patients who participate in them. The company aggregates trial data from biopharmaceutical companies, academic medical centers, and government organizations and makes it freely available. The CEO of the company is Kenneth B. Lee.

Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

ERT Operating Co. engages in the provision of centralized electrocardiographic services. It offers safety and efficacy endpoint collection, data integration and analytics, and real-world evidence. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The Business Roundtable advocates public policies that ensure economic growth. It considers public policy issues which contains groups like the construction users anti-inflation roundtable, a group devoted to containing construction costs; and the labor law study committee, made up of labor relations executives of major companies. The Business Roundtable was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Research!America is a lobbying firm. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The CEO of the company is Mary Woolley.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Caris Ltd (Caris) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by David D. Halbert. The firm is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Caris Life Sciences Ltd. provides diagnostics and anatomic pathology services. The firm develops an unbiased profiling platform for novel target identification, drug development and delivery, diagnostic and disease monitoring, and precision medicine enabling aspects. It offers services throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia and other international markets. The company was founded by David D. Halbert in 2008 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Targovax Oy focuses on the development and commercialization of targeted cancer immunotherapy. It is a biotechnology company with novel immunotherapy platform that is based on engineered oncolytic viruses armed with potent immune-stimulating transgenes. The firm's products induce a tailored response by the immune system directed at each patient’s unique cancer cells. The company was founded by Pekka Ilmari Simula and Antti Vuolanto in 2009 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Affibody Medical AB provides biopharmaceuticals services. It develops Affibody, an antibody mimetic and Albumod, a technology that enhances the efficacy of biopharmaceuticals by extending their circulatory half-life through a strong binding to albumin. The company was founded by Karin Nord and Carl Erik Mathias Uhlén in 1998 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Agency for Science, Technology & Research engages in fostering scientific research and development. It is the agency for fostering world-class scientific research and talent for a vibrant knowledge-based and innovation-driven Singapore. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Adaptimmune Ltd. develops T cell therapies to treat cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, and infectious diseases. It utilizes the T cell to target and destroy cancerous and infected cells by using affinity T cell receptor proteins as a means of strengthening patient T cell responses. The company was founded by Bent K. Jakobsen, James Julian Noble and Helena Katrina Tayton-Martin in 2008 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.