Marlene Haffner

DeNovaMed, Inc. develops an antibiotic to treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria or superbugs. It focuses in the areas of Gram-positive infections, methicillin-resistant Staph and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus pose a threat to patients in hospitals and community health facilities by producing skin, wound and systemic infections. The firm also has an ongoing discovery program for Gram-negative adjuvants, which can improve the efficacy of older antibacterial. The company was founded by Donald F. Weaver, Christopher R. McMaster and David Byers in 2006 and is headquartered in Halifax, Canada.

viDA Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It offers discovery, development and commercialization of novel and targeted therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory and age related diseases. The firm's discovery platform is based on novel research regarding a distinctly different and recently identified, extracellular role for granzymes in the destruction and inflammation of tissues. The company was founded by Alistair Duncan Jr. and David Granville in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Bioblast Pharma Ltd. operates as a clinical development-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the identification, licensing, acquisition, development and commercialization of drugs for rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases. The company also focuses on diseases with severe and debilitating manifestations, where the unmet medical need is clear, the biological mechanism of action is understood, and for which there is no satisfactory treatment. Its product candidates include Protein Stabilizing, Read-through, and Mitochondrial Protein Replacement Platforms. The company was founded by Dalia Megiddo and Ehud Moshe Gilboa on January 22, 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

US Food & Drug Administration operates agencies to protect health and human services. It protects and promotes public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, cosmetics, animal foods and feed and veterinary products. The company was founded by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley on 30th June, 1906 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.