Roger Pomerantz

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of new oncology therapeutics for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. The firm's activities include conducting research and development internally and through corporate collaborators, in-licensing and out-licensing pharmaceutical compounds and technology, conducting clinical trials and raising capital. The company was founded on February 10, 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

The General Hospital Corp. provides healthcare services. It offers diagnostic and therapeutic are in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. The firm's care center provides cancer, digestive disorders, heart disease, transplantation and vascular medicine services. The company was founded in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) is a research institute located in Baltimore, MD, affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The IHV is the first research institute in the US to link basic science, population studies, and clinical trials in an effort to develop new vaccines and treatments for chronic viral diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and human papillomavirus infection. The IHV serves approximately 5,000 patients through six Baltimore area clinics and more than 500,000 patients in seven African and two Caribbean nations. The IHV also provides compassionate cutting-edge care and specializes in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and other chronic viral diseases.

Intec Pharma Ltd. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of drugs based on proprietary Accordion Pill platform technology. Its Accordion Pill technology is an oral drug delivery system that is designed to improve the efficacy and safety of existing drugs and drugs under development by utilizing an efficient gastric retention and specific release mechanism. The company was founded by Zvika Joseph on October 23, 2000 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Rubius Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of red-cell therapeutic medicines. It provides medicine for cancer, autoimmune diseases, hemophilia, infectious and metabolic diseases. The company was founded on April 26, 2013 and is headquartered in Foxboro, MA.

X-Vax Technology, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Silicon Therapeutics LLC operates as an integrated computational drug discovery company that focuses on developing novel medicines for diseases. Its INSITE platform closely represents the dynamical nature of targets using all-atom simulations. The firm has offices in Boston and Shanghai. The company was founded by Lijun Sun, Peiqi Sun, Elliot L. Chaikof, and Finith Jernigan, III in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Viracta Subsidiary, Inc. engages in the development of proprietary viral gene activation therapy to address cancers associated with the Epstein-Barr virus. Its platform is designed as a targeted approach to treat a range of viral-associated cancers and other serious diseases. The company was founded by Ronald J. Berenson, Douglas V. Faller, George C. Hillman, Thalia Papayannopoulou, Susan P. Perrine, George Stamatoyannopoulos, and Robert Williams and is headquartered in Cardiff, CA.

Verimmune, Inc. is a company based in Washington that is dedicated to developing a first-in-class cancer immunotherapy called anti-tumor immune redirection (AIR). Verimmune's proprietary virus-inspired particle (VIP) technology platform redirects pre-existing pathogenic or childhood vaccine immune memory toward tumors. The American company's lead immuno-oncology product candidate, Veri-101, harnesses the cellular immune memory responses from prior cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection to fight cancer. This mechanism of action has the potential to redefine the treatment paradigm for patients with untreatable cancers or resistance to existing therapies. The company was founded in 1995 by John Troyer and Joshua Weiyuan Wang, with Joshua Weiyuan Wang serving as the CEO since then.

Aprinoia Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It develops imaging diagnostic tools, targeted therapy drugs, and other products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.