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Immunex Corporation is a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving lives through immune system science innovation

Blue Cross of California provides health insurance services. Its offers insurance products and benefits, including senior plans, dental, pharmacy, life & disability, long term care, and behavioral health products. The firm provides pharmacy benefit management, utilization management, flexible spending accounts, and COBRA administration products. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Express Scripts, Inc. provides pharmacy benefit management services The company was founded by Howard L. Waltman in September 1986 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

FerruMax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the business of pharmaceutical preparations. The private company is based in Sherbon, MA.

Abide Therapeutics, Inc. develops medicines that target serine hydrolases. Its approach is to selectively block serine hydrolases, potentially expanding this class of commercially validated enzymes as targets in a range of indications. The firm has a technology platform that exploits a chemoproteomics approach to selectively target serine hydrolases and rapidly identify target lead pairs. The company was founded by Alan B. Ezekowitz, Dale Boger, John Kennedy Clarke, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Todd Jones, Keith F. Lenden, and Paul R. Schimmel in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

PharmAkea, Inc. develops small molecule drug candidates against protein targets involved in fibro proliferative diseases. It discovers and develops small molecule therapeutics directed at cancer and fibrotic diseases. The company was founded by John Howard Hutchinson, Kevin Holme, and Jilly Evans in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Unihealth America, Inc. is a health maintenance organization. The private company is based in Burbank, CA.

ATV Capital Management Inc. (ATV Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Inc. provides healthcare services. It also provides emergency care, orthopedic services, chemical dependency programs, cardiac care, women's health services, and cancer treatment. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

Accelerator Services Corp (Accelerator Services) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Carl Weissman and Rodney F. Burgar. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ImmusanT, Inc. develops a new class of therapeutic vaccines to change the lives of people living with autoimmune diseases. Its Epitope-Specific Immuno-Therapy platform provides a precision medicine approach to restoring immune tolerance across a range of diseases, including celiac disease and type 1 diabetes. The firm’s product Nexvax2, protects celiac disease patients against the debilitating effects of gluten. The company was by Leslie J. Williams and Robert P. Anderson founded in December 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Absolute Graphic Technologies USA, Inc. designs, manufactures, and services temperature control systems, fluid process and electrical controls, and diagnostic products. It offers refrigerant-based graphic chiller systems that remove heat and maintain temperature control in high heat generating processes that include combination chillers, UV lamp chillers, and combination and UV lamp chillers. The company was founded by Steven Barberi in 1989 and is headquartered in Corona, CA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Lupus Research Alliance, Inc. provides research and development for the treatment of lupus disease. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vanderbilt Vascular Biology Center operates a biology center. The private company is based in Nashville.

Ribometrix, Inc. develops small molecule drugs that target functional RNA structures to create new avenues to treat human disease. The company was founded by Kevin Weeks and Katie Warner and is headquartered in Greenville, NC.

The Allen Institute for Immunology is a nonprofit bioscience research institute.

Aspen Neuroscience, Inc. engages in the provision of neurological treatment services. It offers technologies for patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-based therapies. The company was founded by Jeanne Loring and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cell Applications, Inc. provides biotechnology research services. The private company is based in San Diego, CA.

Mozart Therapeutics, Inc. is a company focused on developing first-in-class disease-modifying therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, with a therapeutic focus on autoimmune mediated gastro-intestinal disorders. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company utilizes a novel approach to restoring immune system function by targeting the CD8 T regulatory network. Mozart Therapeutics is advancing a pipeline of first-in-class ‘CD8 Treg modulators’ designed to restore durable immune balance. The CEO of the company is Katie Fanning.

Trotana, Inc. discovers and develops medicines. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The CEO of the company is Hamza Suria.

Orbital Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that aims to enhance health by utilizing RNA-based medicines to treat human diseases in innovative ways. The company is building a platform that combines RNA technology delivery methods, data science, and automation to develop a portfolio of medicines focused on vaccines, immunomodulation, protein replacement, and regenerative medicine. The company was founded by Drew Weissman, John M. Maraganore, Kristina M. Burow, Ravindra Majeti, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Eugene W. Yeo, Howard Y. Chang, and Carol Suh, with Giuseppe Ciaramella serving as the CEO since incorporation.