Linda Barabe

ImClone LLC develops targeted biologic treatments designed for the medical needs of patients with tumors. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

The Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec engages in the provision of investment and financial services. It offers cards, loans and credit, savings and investment, insurance, wealth management, accounts and cash management, capital markets, trusts services, and financing and credit. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Levis, Canada.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets prescription drugs in various therapeutic areas, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, pain management, acid reflux and infectious diseases, women’s health, and mental health (bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia); and neurologic, including Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and migraine prevention and treatment. Its products include Axert, Darzalezx, Invokamet XR, Invokana, Remicade, Reopro, and Risperdal Consta. The company was founded by Paul Janssen in 1953 and is headquartered in Titusville, NJ.

Biothera, Inc. develops natural gluco polysaccharide that engages and directs natural innate immune systems. The company was founded by Daniel Conners in 1997 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

Prevent Cancer Foundation provides cancer prevention services. The firm offers treatment for colorectal, prostate, breast, skin and testicular cancers. It also provides early detection research, education and community outreach programs across the country. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Novartis Institute For Functional Genomics, Inc. serves as a bridge between basic science and preclinical drug discovery for Novartis’ global research organization. Its focus areas include oncology, autoimmunity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, and infectious disease. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Abbott Laboratories Co. provides health care services. The firm conducts research and manufactures products for human health through every life stage. Its products include nutrition, diagnostics, vascular and diabetes care. The company is headquartered in Saint-Laurent, Canada.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research provides research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. It offers Innovation programs, like cancer stem cell, innovation in target validation, and smarter imaging, Technology programs, like drug discovery, genome technologies, informatics and bio-computing, imaging translation, and tranformative pathology, and Translation programs. The company was founded by Calvin R. Stiller in December 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Hibercell, Inc. specializes on tumor dormancy detection and therapeutics. It provides treatment for primary tumors, metastatic cancer. The company was founded by Alan Rigby, Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, and Ari Nowacek and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Biothera Pharmaceutical, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops Imprime PGG, a novel dectin receptor agonist that reverses tumor-mediated immunosuppression while promoting antigen presentation to drive T cell activation. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Ventus Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses in developing novel small molecule medicines that target the innate immune system to treat autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and cancer. The company was founded by Hao Wu, Richard Flavell, Judy Lieberman, Thomas Tuschl, and Feng Shao and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Monte Rosa Therapeutics AG develops, manufactures and distributes cancer drugs that modulate protein degradation pathways. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Arsenal Biosciences, Inc. discovers, develops, and commercializes curative immune cell therapies. It offers cell therapy, cloud computing, computational biology, genome engineering, machine learning, software engineering, and synthetic immunology. The company was founded by Ken E. Drazan, Bradley E. Bernstein, W. Nicholas Haining, Theo Roth, Kole T. Roybal, and E. John Wherry and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.