Isaac E. Ciechanover

Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham.

Muna Therapeutics ApS is a Danish private biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops therapies to slow or stop neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's. Muna Therapeutics is based in Copenhagen, DK and was founded in 2020 by Simon Glerup and Bart de Strooper. The company focuses on identifying new medicines to preserve cognition and other brain functions and enhance resilience to these diseases. Rita Balice-Gordon has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Qiming US Ventures Management LLC (Qiming Venture Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of Qiming Venture Partners Ltd founded in 2017 by Mark D. McDade and Gary Edward Rieschel. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Auron Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It aims to cure cancer by radically changing the paradigm of cancer therapeutics from cell killing to transformation of malignant cells into more normal functioning cells. The company was founded by Kate Yen, Matt Vander Heiden, Ross Levine, and Eytan Stein and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA.