Jon T. Holmlund

Ascenta Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of medicines for cancer. Its core technology consists of agents designed to re-establish the natural program of apoptosis (cell death) in abnormal cancer cells. Its has three small molecule programs against distinct apoptosis targets: Bcl-2 (AT-101 – an oral pan-Bcl2 inhibitor), IAP (AT-406 – an oral multi-IAP inhibitor) and HDM2. The company was founded by Dajun Yang, Marc E. Lippman, and Shaomeng Wang on June 5, 2006 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Aspire IRB LLC operates as an independent review board that provides human subject protection oversight in clinical trials for life science companies. The private company is based in San Diego, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.