J.C. Lopez

UBS Asset Management (Americas) LLC (UBS AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as UBS Global Asset Management (Americas), Inc. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Americas, Inc., ultimately owned by UBS Group AG (SIX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS AM provides investment products and services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions and advisors, central banks, charities, foundations and individual investors around the world.

Aurora Biosciences Corp. designs and develops proprietary drug discovery systems, services and technologies to the discovery of new medicine. It develops a proprietary ultra-high throughput screening platform that uniquely integrates innovative fluorescence chemistry, molecular biology, miniaturization, automation, and informatics. The company also provides assay development and screening services. Aurora was founded in 1995 and is located in San Diego, CA.

Part of Reklaim Ltd., Trinity Ventures Ltd. is a venture capital firm. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by John Getze. Trinity Ventures was acquired by Banks Energy, Inc., part of Reklaim Ltd. from October 20, 2005 on November 05, 2002.

Proteus Digital Health, Inc. develops medicine products and therapeutic devices. It provides digital health products that collect behavioral, physiologic, and therapeutic metrics, such as medication adherence, heart rate, sleep patterns, physical activity, and stress levels into personal management tools delivered to the mobile devices of consumers. The company was founded by Andrew M. Thompson, George M. Savage, and Mark J. Zdeblick in 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Naurex, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage company, which develops therapies. The firm offers therapies for depression and other disorders in the central nervous system based on a mechanism of action for modulating the NMDA receptor (NMDAR). It offers a line of chemical drug classes, such as glycine-site functional partial agonists, which modulate the receptor in a different way than existing NMDAR agents. The firm provides GLYX-13, an NRX-1050 small molecule series and additional compounds for treatment-resistant depression. The company was founded by Joseph R. Moskal in 2006 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Incline Therapeutics, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. The firm operates as hospital-focused specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of IONSYS (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system). The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Seatle, WA.

RQx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule antibiotics. The firm develops small molecule antibiotics to combat serious life threatening infections, including those caused by multi drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. It is developing novel, first-in-class antibiotics that evade the current abundance of antibiotic resistance mechanisms, which are now common across the globe. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Adams Street Partners LLC (Adams Street Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1972 by George H Spencer and Shahab Rashid. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Syneos Health LLC operates therapeutically focused global contract research organization. It provides pharma and biotech services. The firm specializes in the hematology, immunology and inflammation infectious diseases, oncology, ophthalmology, cardiovascular, CNS analgesia, CNS neurology, CNS psychiatry, endocrinology, and gastroenterology and hepatology. The company was founded by Kenneth A. Selzer in 1985 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Allegis Corp. develops partner relationship management software. The company also provides computer programming, systems administrators, information retrieval systems and management information systems services. Allegis was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA

SV Health Investors LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of SV Health Investors LLP founded in 2006. SV Health Investors LLC is headquartered in Boston.

Avalon Ventures Management LLC (Avalon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Kevin J. Kinsella. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

MPEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures therapies for antibiotic resistance with focus on gram-negative organisms. It offers Aeroquin (MP- 376), an aerosol formulation of levofloxacin for the treatment of pulmonary infections in patients with cystic fibrosis, as well as antibiotic programs to address antibiotic resistance in gram negative organisms. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

INC Research, Inc. provides therapeutically focused drug development services. It managing programs for pharmaceutical and biotech companies developing drugs in the complex areas of neurology, psychiatry, pain and cancer research. The firm also offer specialized pediatric drug development expertise across all therapeutic areas. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Accelerator Services Corp (Accelerator Services) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Carl Weissman and Rodney F. Burgar. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

LifeBond Ltd. engages in the development of medical devices designed to restore and repair tissues to reduce post-operative complications. The company was founded by Nir Mashkif, Orahn Preiss-Bloom and Ishay Attar in 2007 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Carolus Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. It company focuses on therapeutic strategies to noninvasively monitor and disrupt proinflammatory interactions of chemokines, and prevent or reverse inflammation associated with an array of human diseases, including atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, sepsis, organ transplantation, and cancer. The company was founded by Jay Lichter, Jürgen Bernhagen, and Christian Weber in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Sova Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of human therapeutic drugs. It provides internal clinical plan on therapies supported by the mechanism, our preclinical findings, and the development of compounds reported to act on the molecular targets of H2S that include postherpetic neuralgia, chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathic pain (CIPN pain) and diabetic neuropathy. The company’s pre-clinical findings support large-market indications, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathic pain and migraine, that we would seek to develop with a strategic partner. The company was founded by Gary W. Pace and Solomon Snyder in 2010 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Avelas Biosciences, Inc. develops integrated suite of therapeutic and imaging agents for treatment of cancer. It develops AVB-620, an intravenously administered in vivo fluorescent protease activatable peptide that detects, marks, and diagnoses cancer. The company was founded by Yon Chien Tsien, Quyen T. Nguyen and Michael A. Whitney in 2008 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Rempex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops new therapies to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. It focuses on the discovery and development of new antibacterial drugs to meet the clinical need created by multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. The company was founded by Daniel Burgess, Michael Dudley and Jeffery Loutit in June 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Orbus Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies that treat rare diseases. Its product eflornithine is a novel cytostatic agent, which the firm is developing to treat patients with recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare form of central nervous system cancer. The company was founded by Robert M. Myers and Jason D. Levin in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Outpost Medicine LLC develops therapeutics for the treatment of urologic and gynecologic disorders. The company was founded by David Socks and Tachi Yamada in 2016 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Tripex Pharmaceuticals LLC provides pharmaceutical services. The company is headquartered in Encinas, CA.

Cellular Approaches, Inc. operates in the biotechnology industry. It develops pipeline of innate immunity cell-based therapeutics for the treatment of infectious disease, autoimmunity, neurodegeneration and aging. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Partner Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes therapeutics that improves health and economic outcomes in the treatment of cancer. Its development focus spans the entire range of cancer therapy from primary treatments to supportive care. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Jumpcode Genomics, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Therini Bio, Inc. engages in research and development in the field of biotechnology. The company was founded by Katerina Akassoglou in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hollis Eden Pharmaceuticals is a private company that focuses on researching and developing drugs for adrenal steroid hormones. The company is based in San Diego, CA.