Mike M. Goldberg

Mast Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in developing novel therapies for serious or life-threatening diseases with significant unmet needs. It leveraging Molecular Adhesion and Sealant Technology, platform, derived from over two decades of clinical, nonclinical, and manufacturing experience with purified and non-purified poloxamers to develop vepoloxamer, which also known as MST-188. The company was founded by Warren C. Lau in December 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Urigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company which focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative products for urology indications. It is specialized in the design and implementation of products for patients with urological ailments, including products for amelioration of bladder pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis. The company was founded in March 1999 and is headquartered in North Brunswick, NJ.

Montaur Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm located in New York City. The firm manages the Platinum Montaur Life Sciences Fund.

Alliqua, Inc. is a biomedical products company focused on the development and manufacturing of proprietary technologies in the fields of drug delivery, advanced wound care and liver health preservation. It intends to develop active ingredient and transdermal drug delivery products, primarily utilizing the proprietary hydrogel technology platform manufactured by its subsidiary AquaMed Technologies, Inc. The firm develops HepaMate, an extracorporeal cell-based bioartificial liver system designed to combine blood detoxification with liver cell therapy to provide whole liver function in patients with the most severe forms of liver failure. Its HepaMate is comprised of a blood plasma separation cartridge, a hollow-fiber bioreactor filled with proprietary porcine liver cells, a charcoal column, an oxygenator, circuit tubing and a plasma reservoir. The company was founded on October 21, 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY. It changed its name from HepaLife Technologies, Inc. in January 2011.

Alliqua BioMedical, Inc. engages in commercializing differentiated regenerative medical products which assist the body in the repair or replacement of soft tissue. Its commercial wound care portfolio consists of wound bed preparation and human biologics. It also manufactures custom electron beam cross-linked and aqueous polymer hydrogels used for wound care, medical diagnostics, transdermal drug delivery, and cosmetics. The company was founded on October 27, 1997 and is headquartered in Langhorne, PA.

Echo Therapeutics, Inc. is a medical device company, which engages in the development of non-invasive, and wireless continuous glucose monitoring system for use in the diabetes outpatient market. It offers needle-free skin preparation device as a platform technology that allows for enhanced skin permeation enabling extraction of analytes, such as glucose and delivery of topical pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Iselin, NJ.

CorNova, Inc. develops medical devices. It product, FiberHalo SRM Stent Deployment Catheter, enables the physician to deploy a stent and measure in-stent lumen area during the angioplasty procedure. The company was founded by S. Eric Ryan in 2003 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.