William E. Fitzsimmons

Chromatin, Inc. provides seed and feedstock products for traditional agriculture and bio-industrial processes. The firm markets seed products under its Sorghum Partners brand, primarily the grain sorghum and forage sorghum seed types. It also delivers sorghum products for companies seeking renewable feedstock. Its service areas encompass supplying seed, contracting growers, providing agronomic support, and overseeing harvest and delivery of feedstock in the form and specifications required by bio-processors. The company was founded by Kevin Keith, Daphne Preuss and Gregory Paul Copenhaver in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Citigroup Global Markets Holdings, Inc. provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. It offers financial advisory, research and capital raising services to corporations, governments and individuals. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TPC Group, Inc. engages in production of value-added products derived from niche petrochemical raw materials such as C4 hydrocarbons. It sells products into a specialty and intermediate markets, including synthetic rubber, fuels, lubricant additives, plastics and surfactants. Its products include butadiene, butane-1, fuel products, polyisobutylene, isobutylene derivative, propylene tetramer and pentamer. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cempra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicines for treating drug-resistant bacterial infections. The firm's antibacterial products, both in clinical trials, address the urgent and increasing need for new treatments targeting drug-resistant bacterial infections in both the hospital and the community. The company was founded by Prabhavathi B. Fernandes IN 2006 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

Gliknik, Inc. discovers and develops biotechnology drugs for autoimmune diseases and cancer. The company was founded by David S. Block and Scott E. Strome in 2007 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Naurex, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage company, which develops therapies. The firm offers therapies for depression and other disorders in the central nervous system based on a mechanism of action for modulating the NMDA receptor (NMDAR). It offers a line of chemical drug classes, such as glycine-site functional partial agonists, which modulate the receptor in a different way than existing NMDAR agents. The firm provides GLYX-13, an NRX-1050 small molecule series and additional compounds for treatment-resistant depression. The company was founded by Joseph R. Moskal in 2006 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Syntimmune, Inc. engages in the research and development of therapeutics for autoimmune diseases based on neonatal Fc receptor biology. Its pipeline include SYNT001 which has target indication for dermatology, hematology, and neurology. It also focuses on pre-clinical investigation of SYTN002 and related compounds such as peptide mimetics. The company was founded by Laurence J. Blumberg and Richard S. Blumberg in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides health care services for children's. It offers clinical services, from treatments for rare and complex conditions to well-child care, and education and training, and research services. The firm's services include transplants of hearts, blood and marrow, livers, kidneys and small bowel. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

E.I. DuPont India Pvt Ltd. manufactures agricultural, food and personal care, and polymers and fibers. It offers agricultural products such as animal nutrition and disease prevention, crop protection products, and seeds. The company was incorporated on December 10, 1998 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

Women in Bio, Inc. is an organization that supports women in the life sciences industry. The non-profit company is based in Bethesda, MD and has subsidiaries in the United States. The organization has 13 chapters in the United States and is funded by sponsors and partners who are dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion for women of all ages. Founded in 2002, it offers professional educational programs, peer-to-peer learning, mentoring, and networking opportunities for women at all career levels. Women in Bio was founded by Faith L. Charles and Cynthia Wong Hu.

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. engages in the production of novel and specialty chemicals from plant oils. It offers cleaning and personal care ingredients, coating materials, oil field chemicals, surfactant intermediates, and polymer building blocks products. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a immunology drug development company. It focuses on novel therapeutics and specializes in the prevention and treatment of solid organ transplantation, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s diseases. The firm developed OPN-305, an antibody to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which is now at the clinical testing phase. The company was founded by Luke O'Neill, Kingston Mills and Dermot Kelleher in 2004 and is headquartered Dublin, Ireland.

Terasol Energy LLC focuses on developing next-generation feedstocks for the specialty chemicals, transportation and power generation industries. The firm has expertise in plant science and agronomy to develop and produce large scale projects with next-generation feedstocks. The company was founded by Sundeep Bhan in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of NatWest Group Plc, Heliagro Agricultura e Pecuária Ltda. Heliagro is based in São Paulo, Brazil. is a Brazilian company focused on the development, production, and consistent distribution of high-performance hybrid sunflower seeds. The company aims to provide high-quality and productive seeds to Brazilian agricultural producers. Heliagro Agricultura e Pecuária The company was founded by Charles Tharcy Sturmer, Gilberto Grando, and Henrique H. Ubrig. was acquired by Terasol Energy LLC on March 01, 2010.

Corridor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures biopharmaceutical products. The company was founded on February 1, 2008 and is headquartered in Lutherville, MD

Part of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company based in Wilmington, DE. The company develops pharmaceutical products.

Part of Schouw & Co A/S, Dupont Cipatex SA is a Brazilian company that manufactures and supplies non-woven fabrics. The company is based in Cerquilho, Brazil. Dupont Cipatex was acquired by Fibertex Nonwovens A/S on February 05, 2018.

Baxter Ventures (Baxter Ventures) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Baxter International, Inc. founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Agent Capital LLC (Agent Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Geeta Vemuri. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Immunitas Therapeutics, Inc. provides cancer therapeutics services. The company was founded by Lea Hachigian, Kai Wucherpfennig, K. Dane Wittrup and Mario Suv? and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

viTToria Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a gene-edited cell therapeutics company based in Philadelphia, PA. The company is developing novel CAR-T cell therapies using their proprietary Senza5 platform, which maximizes stemness, durability, and target cell cytotoxicity. The technology is exclusively licensed from the University of Pennsylvania and has pipeline applications in oncology and autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Bruce A. Peacock and Nicholas Siciliano, with Nicholas Siciliano serving as CEO since incorporation.

Carbon Biosciences, Inc. is a biotech company that is based in Boston, MA. The company is focused on expanding the therapeutic potential of gene therapy through its proprietary platform which leverages novel parvoviruses that have been pressure tested by nature to target specific tissues and carry a larger cargo with minimal neutralizing immunity and the potential to re-dose. The company is working to expand the gene therapy toolbox for the treatment of the world's most devastating and difficult to treat diseases. Carbon was founded by Longwood Fund and gene therapy pioneers, John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., and Robert M. Kotin, Ph.D.

Pathway To Cures (Pathway To Cures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022. The firm is headquartered in New York.

True North Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of first-in-class product candidates for complement-mediated diseases. The company was founded by Nancy E. Stagliano in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.