W. Wayne Laslie

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. engages in the manufacturing, distributing, exporting, and importing of pharmaceuticals, clinical testing equipment, medical device and equipment, food products, cosmetics, and other related products. Its operations are carried out through the following business divisions: Pharmaceutical Business and Nutraceutical Business. The Pharmaceutical Business division engages in the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The Nutraceutical Business division provides nutritional products, cosmetics and medicines that support day-to-day health maintenance and improvement. The company was founded on August 10, 1964 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. manufactures drugs to treat chronic diseases. The company discovers and develops receptors therapeutic candidates for cancers, asthma, and allergic disorders. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA

Part of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. is a healthcare company that was founded in 2007. The company is based in Princeton, NJ. The company is driven by their purpose and defined by their beliefs.

Atlantic Healthcare Plc operates as holding company with interest in pharmaceutical. Its products include Alicaforsen Enema, an anti-inflammatory intercellular adhesion molecule inhibitor that acts by inhibiting a key protein in the inflammation process. The firm offers its product for the treatment of pouchitis and ulcerative colitis. The company was founded by Toby Wilson Waterworth and Fiona Mary Wilson Waterworth in 2006 and is headquartered in Saffron Walden, the United Kingdom.

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.

Waterstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the provision of discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative drugs for the treatment of liver and gastrointestinal diseases. The company was founded by Faming Zhang in 2008 and is headquartered in Carmel, IN.

Burril LLC (Burrill) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1994 by G. Steven. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Otsuka America, Inc. operates as a holding company for Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. Its primary objective is to bring products to the U.S. market developed by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical's Japanese parent company, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Those products center on treating neurological and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NewBridge Pharmaceuticals FZ LLC engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products, therapeutics and medical devices. The company was founded by G. Garrett Vygantas in 2007 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Rhapsody Biologics, Inc. develops a personalized peptide vaccine platform. It predicts and optimizes peptide vaccines for use at an individual and population level. Its platform technology encompasses a discovery system to identify immunogenic fragments of disease causing agents that will stimulate an immune response. The company was founded by Richard Paul Kivel and Ren Ee Chee in October 2009 and is headquartered in Norwell, MA.

Diatranz Otsuka Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. Its product, DIABECELL, is used to treat type1 diabetes. The company was founded on November 11, 2011 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

BAR Capital Management LLC is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Roger E. Wyse. The firm is headquartered in Woodside.

Part of Medline Industries LP (Illinois), SevenOaks Biosystems LLC is a company that develops medical devices. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Richard Rox Anderson, Sameer A. Sabir. SevenOaks Biosystems was acquired by Medline Industries LP (Illinois) on November 30, 2016.

Pillar Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical cancer diagnostics company. The firm engages in the creation of precision NGS panels and software solutions. It offers solid tumor panels, blood cancer panels, inherited disease panels, and custom panels. The company was founded by Gang Song and Zhaohui Wang in 2014 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Affyimmune Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of engineered immune cells to fight cancer disease. The company was founded by Gang Song on August 16, 2016 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Deciduous Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the biotechnology business. It develops novel therapies to activate the endogenous immune system to treat age related diseases. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

EQRx International, Inc. engages in healthcare services. The firm specializes in remaking medicine services. The company was founded by Peter Bach and Sandra Horning on January 12, 2020 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Brixton Biosciences, Inc. has developed coolio™ therapy, an injection that provides long-lasting pain relief as an alternative to opioids. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Robert M. Forrester and Sameer A. Sabir. The therapy is designed to desensitize pain in a targeted area and has the potential to eradicate the pain of pain.

OnCusp Therapeutics is a biotechnology company based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in China. OnCusp Therapeutics specializes in developing preclinical assets to clinical proof of concept and then partnering out for commercialization in the field of oncology therapeutics. The company is committed to accelerating the advancement of oncology assets by leveraging its deep translational and clinical development expertise. OnCusp Therapeutics is backed by prominent investors including Sequoia Capital, Biotrack Capital, Oriza Seed Capital, and AIHC Capital. The company was founded in 2021 by Andy Fu, Bing Yuan, and Eric Slosberg, with Bing Yuan serving as the CEO since then.

IDRx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in an undisclosed location. The American company is dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision therapies. IDRx aims to address the limitations of today's precision cancer medicines with highly potent and selective targeted therapies to stop key tumor escape mechanisms and prolong response to therapy. The company's pipeline programs include small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and idrx-73, designed to inhibit key genetic drivers and drug-resistant mutations of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). IDRx was founded in 2021 by Alexis A. Borisy, Nicholas B. Lydon, Ben Auspitz, George D. Demetri, and Robert M. Forrester. Ben Auspitz has been the CEO since incorporation.

Eyecool Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel device-based technology for the treatment of dry eye. The company is based in Cambridge, MA.