Stephen Becker

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to help people lead healthy and productive lives. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's mission is to create a world where everyone has equal opportunities. The company is guided by the belief that every life has equal value. The foundation is currently working on 'the big catch-up' project, which aims to increase vaccination levels among children to pre-pandemic levels and strengthen primary healthcare services for essential immunization in the future. The company was founded by Melinda French Gates and William H. Gates, and the CEO is Mark Suzman.

Koronis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops antiviral therapeutics based on viral decay acceleration. Its therapeutics are designed to inhibit a specific viral protein or enzyme, drugs based on VDA are designed to provoke the rapid decay of the targeted virus by further increasing its naturally high rate of mutation. The company was founded by Richard Daifuku in 1998 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.