Ben Vollrath

Amprion, Inc. is a company based in San Diego, CA that specializes in biomarker testing for brain diseases. The American company's Syntap® biomarker test aids physicians in the clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. The test identifies misfolded synuclein aggregates, a hallmark in various neurodegenerative diseases. Amprion plans to launch other biomarker tests to detect Alzheimer's in early stages. The company was founded in 2006 by Claudio Soto and Russ M. Lebovitz, who has been the CEO since then.

Avalon Ventures Management LLC (Avalon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Kevin J. Kinsella. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Orphagen Pharmaceuticals develops and manufactures drugs. The company was founded by Scott Thacher in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Renovis, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. The company discovers, develops, and commercializes novel therapeutics for neurological and inflammatory diseases. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA