Barbara Yanni

Symic Bio, Inc. develops new category of therapeutics. The company studies treatments for osteoarthritis and cardiovascular ailments. The firm developed a new therapeutic category of bioconjugates that directly target the extracellular matrix, the biologically active environment which plays critical roles for cell proliferation, migration, differentiation and survival. The company was founded by Kate Stuart and John Paderi in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Symic Holdings LLC develops new category of therapeutics. The company was founded by John Paderi, Kate Stuart and Alyssa Panitch and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development and marketing of drugs globally to treat patients with rare and serious diseases using antisense technology. Its primary focus is developing TEGSEDI, a therapy that treats the polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults. It also offers a mature pipeline of novel drugs including AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx, AKCEA-ANGPTL3-LRx, and AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx. The company was founded in December 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.