David R. King

Innovation Philadelphia, Inc (Innovation Philadelphia) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Rich A. Bendis. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP provides legal consulting services. It specializes in transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory, and intellectual property legal services to various industries. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Quaker Partners Management LP (Quaker Partners Mgmt) is a venture capital subsidiary of Independence Capital Partners Inc founded in 2002 by Ira Mark Lubert and Paul Sherrill Neff. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Life Sciences Pennsylvania (LSPA) is a trade association that represents various entities in the life sciences industry, including biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, research, and investment companies, as well as service providers. The non-profit company is based in Wayne, PA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The organization unifies innovators in the state to make Pennsylvania a leader in the life sciences industry. Founded in 1989, LSPA aims to create a business and public policy environment that encourages and incentivizes the diverse life sciences economy in Pennsylvania. Christopher P. Molineaux has been the CEO of the company since 2009.

University City Science Center provides physical space, resources and other support to the community. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies for glaucoma and other diseases of the eye. The company's product candidate includes Trabodenoson, an adenosine mimetic that has completed Phase II clinical trials for lowering IOP by restoring the eye's natural pressure control mechanism. It is also developing Trabodenoson plus Latanoprost, a prostaglandin analogue that has completed Phase II clinical trials for use in patients with inadequate responses to treatment with latanoprost; and Trabodenoson monotherapy for the treatment of optic nerve neuropathy. Inotek Pharmaceuticals was founded on July 7, 1999 by Csaba Szabo and Andrew L. Salzman and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Morphotek, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops and distributes biopharmaceutical products. The firm leverages its Morphodoma and Libradoma platform technologies to develop and research a pipeline of preclinical and clinical stage monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Nicholas C. Nicolaides, Luigi Grasso and Philip M. Sass in May 2000 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.