Melissa Yeager

ALZA Corp. provides drug delivery solutions and develops pharmaceutical products. The company applies its delivery technologies to develop pharmaceutical products with enhanced therapeutic value for its own portfolio and for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Martin Gerstel and Alejandro Zaffaroni in 1968 and is headquartered in Vacaville, CA.

Part of Novartis AG, PathoGenesis Corp is a private company that develops and markets innovative treatments for chronic infectious diseases. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company was founded by Isaac Blech. PathoGenesis was acquired by Chiron Corp. on September 19, 2000 for $639.75 million.

Corus Pharma, Inc. develops drugs to treat needs in infectious diseases and respiratory areas. The firm's core competencies reside in the identification of drugs, rapid clinical development, and FDA approval of its products. The firm was founded in January 2001 by A. Bruce Montgomery and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Cardeas Pharma Corp. develops drugs for the prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia. It offers a novel antibiotic formulation of two drugs with synergistic activity against relevant, resistant Gram-negative bacilli, including pseudomonas aeruginosa, acinetobacter baumannii, and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. The company was founded by Alan Bruce Montgomery on November 23, 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute operates as a non-profit organization that researches and discovers infectious diseases. It provides research for new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics. The company was founded by Kenneth D. Stuart and Ruth W. Shearer in 1976 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Lundbeck Seattle BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on transforming the migraine treatment paradigm through the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapeutic antibodies. Its product includes Eptinezumab, is an investigational monoclonal antibody (mAb) that inhibits calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and is currently in late-stage clinical development for the prevention of migraine. The company was founded by Randall C. Schatzman, Mark J. Litton, and John A. Latham in January 2004 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.

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.