Joanne Quan

ALZA Corp. provides drug delivery solutions and develops pharmaceutical products. The company applies its delivery technologies to develop pharmaceutical products with enhanced therapeutic value for its own portfolio and for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Martin Gerstel and Alejandro Zaffaroni in 1968 and is headquartered in Vacaville, CA.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Novartis AG, PathoGenesis Corp is a private company that develops and markets innovative treatments for chronic infectious diseases. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company was founded by Isaac Blech. PathoGenesis was acquired by Chiron Corp. on September 19, 2000 for $639.75 million.

InterMune, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that researches, develops and commercializes therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases. It focuses on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and fatal lung disease. The firms research programs are focused on the discovery of targeted, small-molecule therapeutics and biomarkers to treat and monitor serious pulmonary and fibrotic diseases. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors. It offers drugs for treatment in the field of cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Dominic P. Behan and Jack Lief on April 14, 1997 and is headquartered in Park City, UT.

Bayhill Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes therapeutics. Its technology is BHT-DNA. The firm is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary therapeutic BHT-DNA platform to develop a pipeline of novel and targeted treatment candidates for autoimmune diseases. Bayhill Therapeutics was founded by Lawrence Steinman, Hideki Garren, William H. Robinson and Paul J. Utz in 2001 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. provides pharmaceutical products. It operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the discovery and development of new antiviral agents against novel targets in the treatment of hepatitis. The firm’s pipeline includes clinical stage assets and preclinical new chemical entities (NCEs) shown to possess antiviral activity against Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D, and a wide array of other viruses. It also conducts multiple clinical proofs of concept studies in multiple clinical sites in HCV and HDV patients. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Glenn in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.