Rob W. Armstrong

Part of Eli Lilly & Co., Lilly Research Laboratories is a company that engages in research and develops medicines. The company is based in Indianapolis, IN.

Apple Tree venture Managemnet LLC (Apple Tree Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Seth Harrison in 1999. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional offices in London, San Francisco and Cambridge.

Gelesis, Inc. operates as a consumer-centered biotherapeutics company, which engages in the development of novel therapies to induce weight loss and metabolic disorders. Its commercial product portfolio includes Plenity, an FDA-cleared product to aid in weight management, as well as potential therapies in development for patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease /Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis, and Functional Constipation. The company was founded by Yishai Zohar in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Artax Biopharma, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of new therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The firm develops drugs targeting the interaction between T-cell Receptors (TCR) and Nck, a cytoplasmic adapter protein which plays a role in T-cell activation. The company was founded by Dami? Carulla Tormo in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in computational discovery, design and development of new drugs and therapies. Its proprietary design process combines artificial intelligence and cloud computing to search virtual molecular space and design novel drugs. The company was founded by Edwin R. Addison, Lawrence Husick and Shahar Keinan in 2009 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Entrega, Inc. develops oral drug delivery technologies. The firm’s platform enables novel applications in a variety of fields, such as disease management and tracking in the burgeoning mobile health arena. Its proprietary technology seeks to solve the oral delivery problem with an engineering solution that protects the payload and delivers biological molecules, drug substances and nanoparticles. The company was founded by Samir Mitragotri in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Curza Global LLC engages in operation of a small-molecule therapeutics firm. It develops several structurally distinct classes of proprietary drugs focused on infectious diseases and oncology. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Boston Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that leverages a drug development team to advance a portfolio of high value candidates that address important unmet medical needs. The company was founded by Robert Armstrong and Chris Viehbacher and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.