Kent Alan Gossett

Alios BioPharma, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops novel antiviral therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases. It also develops proprietary chemical libraries of novel nucleosides, nucleoside analogs and non-nucleosides as potential therapeutics for viral infections including RSV, influenza, rhinovirus and emerging viral diseases. The firm offers VX-135, a uridine nucleotide analog for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. The company was founded by Leonid N. Beigelman, Lawrence M. Blatt and John R. Donovan in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CalciMedica, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in drug development. It discovers and develops novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and organ transplant rejection. The company was founded by Gonul Velicelebi, Kenneth Stauderman, Anjana Rao, Patrick Hogan, Stefan Feske, Michael Harpold, Tom Reed, and Jack Roos in December 2006 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Nimbus Therapeutics LLC provides drug discovery research services. It is a computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinical development. The company was founded by Bruce Lee Booth in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

Part of GSK Plc, Sterling Winthrop, Inc. is a private company that specializes in cameras and duplicating machines. The company is based in Rochester, NY. Sterling Winthrop was acquired by GSK Plc from Eastman Kodak Co. on November 03, 1994 for $2,930 million.

Locus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics to address major unmet medical needs. Locus utilizes powerful and proprietary computational technologies running on Linux-based supercomputer clusters to simultaneously identify relevant binding sites on protein disease targets and rapidly generate novel, small molecules that bind specifically to those protein sites. In contrast to other computational approaches, the Locus technology requires only a high-resolution, 3-dimensional structure of the target protein to implement its drug discovery process. Locus Pharmaceuticals is synthesizing and testing novel drug candidates for the treatment of debilitating and life-threatening human diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, arthritis and inflammation.

Protez Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops antibiotics for infections & provides research service on intravenous & oral small molecule antibiotics to chronic and recurrent infections. The company was founded by Klaus Esser, Luigi Xerri & Christopher M. Cashman in 2003 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Resistentia Pharmaceutical's business strategy is to develop and commercialize immunotherapy as a second generation therapy to monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Resistentia’s most advanced program is an immunotherapy against allergy/asthma – a growing health problem with a large unmet medical need. In contrast to existing therapies, which are largely symptomatic, Resistentia’s novel immunotherapeutic approach targets the cause of the allergic reactions, rather than the symptoms. In addition, Resistentia is developing an immunotherapy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The project is currently in discovery phase.