Elaine Jones

Acurian, Inc. provides clinical trial patient recruitment and retention solutions for the life sciences industry. It offers recruitment feasibility, site identification and selection, patient recruitment and retention services. The firm also provides the recruitment manager platform or database that features feasibility and project management capabilities. The company was founded by Lance D. Converse, David Restrepo and Leslie D. Michelson in 1998 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

Targacept, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which is engaged in the design, discovery and development of a new class of drugs to treat multiple diseases and disorders of the nervous system by selectively targeting Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors, or NNRs. NNRs are found on nerve cells throughout the human nervous system and serve as key regulators of nervous system activity. Targacept was founded by J. Donald deBethizy, Merouane Bencherif, William S. Caldwell and Patrick M. Lippiello on March 7, 1997 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

NeuroTherapeutics Pharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for diseases associated with central nervous system hyper-excitability. It is developing compounds that decrease or eliminate aberrant excitatory discharges by working through a new mechanism of action. The firm's proprietary molecules target a novel molecular site that will create a pipeline of potential new treatments for multiple CNS disorders. The company's lead compound, NTP-2014, has exhibited excellent efficacy results in multiple preclinical models of epilepsy, acute and neuropathic pain. NeuroTherapeutics Pharma was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel and local therapies. It specializes in the treatment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions including osteoarthritis. It offers products under the Zilretta brand, an extended-release corticosteroid approved to manage osteoarthritis knee pain. The company was founded by Michael D. Clayman and Neil Bodick on November 5, 2007 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners /Ventures/ (Ben Franklin Tech Partners) is a venture Capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of microRNA-based oncology therapeutics. Its products includes miR-34, miR-215, miR-101, miR-16, and let-7. The company was founded Matthew M. Winkler in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

MISSION Therapeutics Ltd. develops small molecule drugs targeting enzymes involved in cancer and other diseases. It focuses on selectively targeting deubiquitylating enzymes to treat cancer, neurodegenerative and other diseases. The company was founded by Stephen Jackson Philip, Xavier Jacq, Niall M. B. Martin and Keith Menear in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Autifony Therapeutics Ltd. discovers and develops new pharmaceutical treatments treat hearing disorders. The firm focuses on the treatment of hearing disorders, including noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. The company was founded by Charles H. Large and Giuseppe S. Alvaro in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Nimbus Therapeutics LLC provides drug discovery research services. It is a computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinical development. The company was founded by Bruce Lee Booth in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. It discovers and develops targeted therapeutics for inflammation and immuno-oncology. It also focuses on anti-inflammatory product candidates targeting SHIP1, which is a key regulator of an important cellular signaling pathway in immune cells, known as the PI3K pathway. The company was founded by Raymond J. Andersen, David J. Main, Low Fung Mui, Christopher John Ong, and Gerald Krystal on December 26, 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Nimbus Apollo, Inc. provides drug discovery research services. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

GlaxoSmithKline LLC engages in discovering, developing, and delivering medicines, vaccines, and other healthcare products. It offers prescription medicines that treat various diseases, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, herpes, asthma, migraine, and heart diseases, as well as stomach and skin problems, infections, and flu. It also provides vaccines for children and adults; and over-the-counter products. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Blade Therapeutics, Inc. offers anti-fibrotic therapies to meet unserved patient needs. Its product portfolio is to address various fibrotic diseases and their underlying pathophysiology. The company was founded by Hal Dietz and Wendye R. Robbins and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Storm Therapeutics Ltd. develops small molecule drugs that target RNA-modifying enzymes. It offers research and development of drug molecules for the treatment of specific cancers. The company was founded by Anthony Kouzarides and Eric Miska on April 21, 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

eFFECTOR Therapeutics Operations, Inc. discovers and develops translation regulators. It offers small molecule therapeutics that control gene expression for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Its pipeline of translation regulators includes eFT508, eIF4E, and eIF4A. The company was founded by James R. Appleman, Kevin L. Eastwood, Siegfried Reich, Davide Ruggero, Kevan Shokat, and Stephen T. Worland in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Jnana Therapeutics, Inc. provides drug development services. The firm focuses on immunometabolism changing the metabolic pathways in immune cells to affect function; lysosomal function and mucosal defense. The company was founded by Stuart L. Schreiber, Ramnik Xavier, Joanne Kotz and Joel C. Barrish and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Quartet Medicine, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops treatments for chronic pain and inflammation by restoring tetrahydrobiopterin homeostasis inneuronal and inflammatory cells. Its drug discovery efforts are fully structurally enabled and are focused on demonstrating changes in BH4-related biomarkers that correlate with drug pharmacokinetics and efficacy in preclinical animal models. The company was founded by Kevin Pojasek, Kai Johnsson, and Clifford Woolf in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Second Genome, Inc. develops microbiome-based therapeutic products. It offers phyclochip community, 16S sequencing community analysis, whole metagenomic profiling, nucleic acid isolation, inferred function and custom informatics services. The company was founded in 2009 by Corey S. Goodman, Janet A. Warrington, Todd Z. DeSantis, John Hulls and Gary Andersen and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Pfizer Ventures LLC is a venture capital arm that invests in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. The company is based in New York, NY. Pfizer Ventures seeks to identify and invest in emerging companies that are developing breakthroughs and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer's pipeline and shape the future of the industry.

Mironid Ltd. develops proprietary drug candidate molecules by modulating the activity of key cell signalling proteins. The company was founded by Miles Houslay, Paul Barton Rodgers, Elizabeth Fairley, Julia Adam, David Adams and Nigel Pyne in 2014 and is headquartered in North Lanarkshire, the United Kingdom.

Novartis Venture Fund provides early stage venture capital to companies in Europe, North America and Asia. The fund's focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms, therefore it focuses on such sectors as Biotechnology and Biopharma. The fund makes seed and early stage investments ranging up to USD 30 million per company over its life. The fund makes follow-on and co-investments.

Myeloid Therapeutics, Inc. operates as an immuno-oncology company that engages in the development of cell program to cure cancer. It offers ATAK platform, a cell therapy technology. The company was founded by Ronald Vale, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Daniel Getts, and Thomas Cahill in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ibere Pharmaceuticals is a blank check company, which was formed in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on October 22, 2020 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Part of GSK Plc, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Co. is a company that manufactures drugs and vaccines. The company is based in Philadelphia, PA.

HBM Healthcare Investments AG is a listed investment company which invests worldwide, primarily focusing on Europe, Asia and North America, in private and public companies in the human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology and diagnostics sectors, and related areas. It aims to invest mainly in a form of equity, but also considers convertible bonds, debt securities and derivatives. The investment focus is on later stage companies, and participates in follow-on investment rounds, also acquiring majority stake in target companies. It invests also in other funds.