Bryan Chao

Bayer Corp. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutrition and materials products. The firm offers consumer care, diagnostics, diabetes and animal health products. It also provides material science products, which include coating, adhesive and sealant raw materials polycarbonates polyurethanes and thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Whippany, NJ.

CuraGen Corp. develops protein, antibody and small molecule pharmaceutical products. The firm focuses on the development of CR011-vcMMAE, a Phase II clinical trial drug for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and breast cancer. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

SkillSlate, Inc. is a vertical search directory for finding individual service providers such as handymen, tutors, or dog walkers. Its directories consist of profiles with pictures, prices, and reviews, as well as information that paint a picture of the service provider's personality. The company was founded by Bartek Ringwelski and Adrian Grabicki and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Arvinas Operations, Inc. develops novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, pro-inflammatory, autoimmune and rare diseases. It offers proteolysis-targeting chimera PROTAC-based drugs that induce protein degradation to target and eliminate disease-causing proteins from the body. The company was founded by Craig M. Crews in July 2013 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Vivace Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops novel cancer drug. The company was founded by Shuang Qiao in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

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

CytomX Therapeutics Holdings LLC engaged in the development of new generation targeted antibody therapeutics. The company was founded by Frederick W. Gluck on January 31, 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Part of Bayer AG, Bayer HealthCare is a company that provides medical care and animal health care services. The company is based in Tarrytown, NY.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Core Innovation Capital (Core Innovation) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Arjan Schutte. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Civitas Therapeutics, Inc. develops transformative pulmonary delivery therapies. The company was founded by Glenn Batchelder, Richard P. Batycky, Martin I. Freed, Jennifer Fujii, Jeffrey Elton and James L. Wright on June 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Ardsley, NY.

Part of Canaan Management, Inc., Canaan Partners XI LLC provides investment services. The company is based in Wilmington, DE.

Rallybio LLC operates as a development-stage biotechnology company. The firm develops transformative therapies for patients. It focuses on bringing life-transforming medicines to patients with devastating and rare disorder. The company was founded by Martin Mackay, Stephen Uden and Jeffrey Fryer in 2018 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Rallybio Holdings LLC engages in the provision of healthcare services. The company is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Halda Therapeutics LLC engages in the development of research-stage drugs for novel therapeutic modality. The company is headquartered New Haven, CT.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. The firm’s novel antiviral drug candidates addresses the limitations of CHB therapies. The company was founded in 2009 by Osvaldo Flores, Ali Munawar and George D. Hartman and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.