David Baltimore

Helixis, Inc. develops a molecular diagnostic testing platform for use in diverse physical locations. The company was founded in 2007 by David Baltimore, Alex Dickinson, Matthew Johnston, George Maltezos & Axel Scherer and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Immune Design Corp. is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on cancer with in vivo approaches designed to enable the body's immune system to fight disease. It develops multiple product candidates from its discovery platforms, ZVex and GLAAS. The company was founded by Steven G. Reed and David Baltimore on February 20, 2008 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

The American Cancer Society, California Division, Inc., is led by an unpaid volunteer Board of Directors, comprised of community leaders, health care professionals, survivors and concerned citizens. The company employs more than 160 thousand volunteers each year throughout the state to conduct programs in partnership with professional staff. Each year it conducts both internal and external audits to ensure that they are stewarding donors dollars in the most cost-effective way possible. Year after year, surveys conducted by credible polling agencies clearly indicate that the American Cancer Society is the most trusted organization of its kind in the country.

The Broad Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of research and development in biomedicals to cure infectious disease. Its scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics, genome regulation, cellular circuity and epigenomics, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. The company was founded by Eric S. Lander, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Calimmune, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The firm offers Cal-1, a gene-based stem cell therapy to protect individuals infected with HIV from progressing to AIDS. The company was founded by David Baltimore, Inder M. Verma, Irvin Chen and Louis Breton in 2006 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Caltech Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes disinfectants, germicides and cleaning products. The company was founded on July 1, 1980 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MI.

The Broad Foundations is a reform organization. It focuses its grantmaking in four common areas: education, science, arts, and civic. The company was founded by Eli Broad and Edythe L. Broad and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Foundation for Biomedical Research provides animal research and testing services. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

Appia Bio, Inc. is an early stage biotechnology company based in an undisclosed location. Appia Bio is focused on discovering and developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies across a broad array of indications with a scalable technology platform that increases access for patients. The American company utilizes the biology of lymphocyte development with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) gene engineering to generate CAR-engineered invariant natural killer T (CAR-NKT) or gamma delta T cells from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with its ACUA (Appia Cells Utilized for Allogeneic) technology platform. The ACUA platform was developed from groundbreaking research in the laboratory of Lili Yang, Ph.D., at the University of California, and collaboration with Appia Bio's other scientific founders, David Baltimore, Ph.D. at Caltech and Pin Wang, Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. The company was founded in 2020 by Jeffrey S. Wiezorek, David Baltimore, Jeenjoo Kang, Lili Yang, Edmund Kim, and Pin Wang. Jeenjoo Kang has been the CEO since 2020.

Altos Labs is a biotechnology company that focuses on cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company's goal is to reverse disease and transform medicine. Altos Labs was founded by Rick Klausner and Hans Edgar Bishop. The CEO is Hal V. Barron.