Kevin Starr

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Biogen MA, Inc. is a biotechnology company principally engaged in discovering and developing drugs for human healthcare through genetic engineering. The company’s research and development activities used to focus on novel products for multiple sclerosis, inflammatory, respiratory, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, developmental biology and gene therapy. The company was founded by Daniel D. Adams in 1976 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops selective drugs for the treatment of debilitating neurogenic disorders. It offers programs for respiratory, cardiovascular, chronic pain, biology, and clinical trials. The firm offers drugs for osteoarthritis pain, treatment-refractory chronic cough, and interstitial cystitis or bladder pain syndrome. The company was founded by Anthony P. Ford in December 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

PanOptica, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that provides ophthalmology drugs for treatment of eye diseases. The company was founded by Paul G. Chaney and Martin B. Wax in March 2009 and is headquartered in Bernardsville, NJ.

Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat grievous blood-based disorders. It also provides oral medicines for sickle cell diseases. The company was founded by Matthew P. Jacobson, Andrej Sali, Jack Taunton, Charles J. Homcy, Craig D. Muir, and David R. Phillips in February 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

MyoKardia, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, commercialization, and development of therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its lead therapeutic candidate, Mavacamten, is an orally administered allosteric modulator of cardiac myosin being developed for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The company was founded by James A. Spudich, Jonathan G. Seidman, Christine Seidman, and Leslie Leinwand on June 8, 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Ember Therapeutics, Inc. provides treatment for metabolic disorders and obesity diseases. Its products target brown fat biology and mechanisms of selective insulin sensitization. The company was founded by Bruce M. Spiegelman, Patrick R. Griffin and Ronald C. Kahn in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.