Peter Wirth

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.

EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. used to develop targeted contrast agents both to improve the capability and expand the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a tool for diagnosing human disease. The company was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Synageva BioPharma Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company which focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic products for patients with life-threatening rare diseases and high unmet medical need. The company is currently evaluating sebelipase alfa in global clinical trials for LAL Deficiency, a lysosomal storage disease associated with liver damage and accelerated atherosclerosis in children and adults, and in infants, premature death often before six months of age. Synageva BioPharma was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

FORMA Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops medicines for cancer and other genetically driven diseases. Its drug discovery engine deploys screening and structure-based approaches across broad families of targets involved in tumor metabolism, epigenetics, protein homeostasis, and protein-protein interactions. The company was founded by Steven Tregay, Nikolai Kley, Stuart L. Schreiber, Todd R. Golub, Michael Foley and Alexis Borisy in 2008 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Lysosomal Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the innovation, research, and development in the field of neurodegeneration. It focuses in lysosomal biology in developing novel small molecules for use in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Dimitri Krainc, Joseph Mazzulli, Henri A. Termeer, Robert J. Carpenter, Peter Wirth, Edmund J. Sybertz, and Kees Cornelis Been in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.