Irene Davis

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. manufactures nucleic acid products. It specializes in DNA synthesis, gene construction, antisense oligos, molecular beacons, and a variety of molecular biology products. The company was founded by Joseph A. Walder in 1987 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

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

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Its lead product candidate, ITCA 650, is currently in development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The firm’s platform technology is a proprietary subcutaneous delivery system that involves a matchstick-size, miniature osmotic pump implanted sub-dermally to provide continuous and consistent drug therapy, and the company’s proprietary formulation technology, which maintains stability of therapeutic proteins and peptides at human body temperatures for long extended periods of time. The company was founded by Mark Moran in June 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BD Biosciences, Systems & Reagents, Inc. provides tools and solutions to research and clinical laboratories in basic research, drug discovery, development, biopharmaceutical production and disease management. The company was founded on May 9, 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The Jackson Laboratory provides biotechnology research services. It offers nonprofit research, biomedical research, genomics, genetics, cancer, neuroscience, immunology, aging, bioinformatics, computational biology, research mice, genomic medicine, reproductive biology, developmental biology, eye research and hearing research. The company was founded by Clarence Cook Little in 1929 and is headquartered in Bar Harbor, ME.

Ajinomoto Althea, Inc. provides biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. It offers development services in the areas of process development, protein formulation technology, analytical development and validation, and regulatory support. The company was founded by Magda Marquet and Francois Ferre in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

PharmaCell BV manufactures cell therapy and regenerative medicine. The firm engages in human cell line development and manufacturing of bio pharmaceuticals. Its services include process research and development, project management, incoming logistics, incoming goods, manufacturing auto logous and allogeneic products, quality control, final formulation, release and outgoing logistics. The company was founded by René Lardenoije and Jan Thio in 2005 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Biogeneration Management is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of BioGeneration Holding BV and was founded in 2006. Biogeneration management is headquartered in Naarden.

Telegraph Hill Partners Management Co. LLC (Telegraph Hill Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Robert G. Shepler, Thomas A. Raffin and Deval A. Lashkari. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MediService AG is a mail service pharmacy. The company is headquartered in Zuchwil, Switzerland.

Genzyme Therapeutics Ltd. develops transformative therapies for patients affected by rare and debilitating diseases. Its treatment areas include thyroid cancer, sclerosis, Fabry disease and Pompe. The company was founded on November 5, 2001 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

InnoCore Technologies BV develops drug delivery technologies. It serves the pharmaceutical and medical device industry by developing and manufacturing innovative drug delivery systems that enhance their products. The company was founded by Theodorus Adrianus Cornelius Flipsen and Rob Steendam in 2004 and is headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.

ARM is a Washington, DC-based multi-stakeholder advocacy organization that promotes global initiatives necessary to facilitate access to life-giving advances in regenerative medicine. The organization promotes legislative, regulatory reimbursement, investment, technical, and other initiatives to accelerate the development of safe and effective regenerative medicine technologies. ARM also works to increase public understand- ing of the field and its potential to transform human healthcare. Prior to the formation of ARM in 2009, there was a need for more coordinated and cohesive advocacy representing the interests of the companies, research institutions, investors and patient groups that comprise the entire regenerative medicine community. Today ARM has more than 140 members and is the leading global advocacy organization in this field.

Blue Mountain Capital Group LLC (Private Equity) (Blue Mountain Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Assured Investment Management LLC founded in 2012 by Andrew Todd Feldstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Argonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc. engages in providing contract manufacturing in the life science and biotech arena. It offers products launch, scale-up & volume, decline and sunset services. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Cell Microsystems, Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes products and tools for the isolation, recovery and analysis of single cells. The company was founded by Yuli Wang, Nancy Allbritton and Christopher Sims in 2002 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

VarmX BV is a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) founded in 2016 by Professor Pieter Reitsma, a world-leading expert in hemostasis and thrombosis. VarmX is based in Leiden, NL. The Dutch company's lead compound, VMX-C001, is a modified recombinant blood factor X developed for the treatment of severe spontaneous bleeding and for the prevention of bleeding during urgent surgery in patients taking oral factor Xa inhibitors (FXa DOACs) as anticoagulation therapy. The company is supported by a strong syndicate of investors. Jan K. Öhrström has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

CiMaas BV develops cellular immunotherapy for cancer. Its products include cancer vaccine using the patient's own immune cells and the production of donor natural killer cells. The company was founded by Gerard M.J. Bos and Dilfred T.V. Germeraad and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Roslin Cell Therapies Ltd. is a leading contract development and manufacturing services organization focused on advanced cell and gene therapies. The company was established in 2006 and is based in Edinburgh, UK. and has subsidiaries in the United States. Roslin Cell Therapies has a remarkable heritage in the field, having been among the first in the world to produce clinical-grade human pluripotent stem cells and advancing the first CRISPR edited stem cell-based therapy for a major disease to marketing authorization. The British company provides innovative process and analytical development, CGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing for a range of cell types, and CGMP iPSC cell line development, gene editing, and differentiation. With tailored CDMO solutions, Roslin Cell Therapies enables partners to efficiently progress from development to commercialization and deliver life-saving cell and gene therapies worldwide. Peter Alistair Coleman has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Machavert Pharmaceuticals LLC provides pharmaceuticals services. It offers immunomodulatory, precision medicine against cancer, tumor, targeted therapeutics and immune system. The company was founded by Stanislav Pavlin, akub Staszak-Jirkovsky, Michal Drozd and Radek Stavinoha and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Excellos, Inc. is a full-service contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) based in San Diego, CA. Excellos is focused on supplying cGMP cellular products and services, as well as process development and manufacturing expertise to scientists and clinicians working with cell and gene therapies. The company is dedicated to improving human life by providing critical products and services to life science research and the next generation of cell and gene therapies. Excellos accelerates cell and gene therapies by improving the quality, breadth, and variance of donor samples, and providing end-to-end cell therapy services. The company's proprietary Excellos 360 technology provides deep characterization of cells to better match patient with therapeutic development needs. The company was founded in 2020 and is led by CEO David Wellis.

VectorY BV is a biotech company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that is dedicated to developing transformative medicines for people with neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's. VectorY's platform combines the promise of precise therapeutic antibodies with one-time AAV-based delivery to the CNS, enabling long-lasting CNS treatment after a single administration using cutting-edge antibody, AAV, and manufacturing technologies. The Dutch company's unique in-house expertise in antibodies, AAV vectors, protein degradation, manufacturing, and neuroscience drives the rapid development of much-needed disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Sander J. van Deventer and Pavlina Konstantinova, with Sander J. van Deventer serving as the CEO since incorporation.