Eric Aguiar

Virdante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and commercializes drugs for auto-immune and inflammatory disorders. The company's products incorporate a proprietary 'sialic switch' technology to improve the anti-inflammatory properties of antibodies. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

HealthCare Ventures LLC (HealthCare Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Harold R. Werner. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Part of Innoviva, Inc., Genovo, Inc. is a maker of gene and cell therapy products. The private company is based in Sharon Hill, PA. Genovo was acquired by AmpliPhi Biosciences Corp. on September 20, 2000 for $84.53 million.

Part of Bausch Health Cos., Inc., Amarin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures and develops pharmaceuticals. The private company is based in Mill Valley, CA.

Thomas, McNerney & Partners LLC (Thomas McNerney & Partner) is a venture capital subsidiary of the Coral Group Inc founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company which discovers, develops and markets drugs that prevent and treat pain, autoimmune disorders and inflammation. The company leverages its expertise in chemistry and biology to discover and develop small molecule compounds that mimic the activity of human enzymes. The company's compounds mimic the function of superoxide dismutase (SOD), a beneficial enzyme that serves an important protective role in the body by removing superoxide, a toxic free radical that can damage cells and tissues. Superoxide anions are implicated in a variety of diseases associated with pain and inflammation. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

VaxInnate Corp. develops novel, proprietary vaccines for infectious diseases. It engages in the development and production of vaccines for pandemic and seasonal influenza diseases. The firm's products include Flagellin.HuHA and flagellin.AvHA, which are fusion proteins linking a potent immune stimulator, the bacterial protein flagellin, with immunoprotective domain of viral hemagglutinin. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Michael I. Sherman and Richard Flavell in 2002 and is headquartered in Cranbury, NJ.

Intuity Medical, Inc. develops a blood glucose monitoring system for diabetic patients. The firm offers POGO Automatic, an automated, self-contained handheld monitor that enables patients to measure blood glucose levels within seconds. It also offer Patterns, an application which centralizes each patient?s blood glucose testing data in a digital form that can be shared with healthcare providers. The company was founded by Syrous Parsay on April 24, 2002 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Locus Development, Inc. provides real estate development and asset management services. The company was founded by Sean E. George in in 2010 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co. Ltd. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of late-stage product candidates targeting neurological diseases, including rare disorders. It focuses on a pipeline of product candidates that represent mechanistic platforms, calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists, and glutamate modulators. The company was founded in September 2013 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

BridgeBio Pharma LLC engages in the discovery and development of pharmaceutical drugs for patients with genetic diseases. It offers transthyretin stabilizer, SHP2 inhibitor, KRAS inhibitor, Collagen 7 replacement, and S1P-lyase inhibitor. The company was founded by Neil Kumar and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Philadelphia Ventures Inc (Philadelphia Ventures) was a venture capital firm founded in 1967 by Norley Michael. The firm was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Eidos Therapeutics, Inc. focuses on addressing the large and growing unmet need in diseases caused by transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTR). Its product include the AG10, an orally-administered small molecule designed to potently stabilize TTR, suggesting a treatment with the potential to halt the progression of ATTR. The company was founded by Graef Isabella and Alhamadsheh Mamoun on August 6, 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Garuda Therapeutics, Inc. aims to eliminate the need for donor or patient cells for blood stem cell transplants. The company is based in Natick, MA. The company's platform technology generates off-the-shelf, self-renewing blood stem cells that are HLA-compatible and transgene-free. This technology could potentially provide curative therapies for over 120 diseases. Garuda Therapeutics was founded by Dhvanit Shah, Sean Morrison, and David T. Scadden, with Dhvanit Shah serving as CEO since incorporation.