Sarah A. Frech

Intercell USA, Inc. discovers and develops vaccines and immune system stimulants. The vaccine patch enhances the efficacy of existing vaccines, enables new vaccines that are viable only through transcutaneous administration and expand the global vaccine market. The company was founded by Gregory M. Glenn and Dean P. Lewis in September 1997 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Vtesse, Inc. provides novel drugs for life-threatening rare diseases. It developed VTS-270, a modified form of cyclodextrin that has been evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies at institutes within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to treat patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC). The firm is working with the NIH and other leading academic centers to advance clinical study of VTS-270 for NPC, and to conduct pre-clinical discovery and development of other novel drugs for NPC and other LSDs. The company was founded by Ben Machielse in 2015 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.