David Thurston

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

RCT BioVentures (RCT BioVentures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Research Corporation Technologies Inc founded in 1987. The firm is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.

The Lek/Alcar Consulting Group, Inc. provides business strategy consulting services. It offers strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, and transaction services including business unit strategy, brand management, pricing, alliances and joint ventures, product development, corporate transformation, and operations design. It serves the defense, energy, health, building and construction, aerospace, media, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Andrew Kutter in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides medical services. It offers patient care, biomedical research, teaching, and community services. It also provides organ transplantation, breast cancer care, and cardiac surgery services. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Q32 Bio Operations, Inc. develops immunomodulatory therapies with protein based molecules using a platform. The company was founded by Shelia Violette and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Padlock Therapeutics, Inc. develops medicines targeting protein-arginine deiminases. It develops drugs that block the protein-arginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes. The firm leverages the breakthrough science on the role of protein citrullination in disease to develop drugs targeting protein-arginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes. The company was founded by Paul Thompson, Kerri Mowen, Todd A. Huffman and Michael Gilman in January 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

DOT Therapeutics-2, Inc. develops new therapies that change the outcome for people of all ages living with cancer. The company was founded by Julie Grant and Samuel Blackman and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Eli Lilly & Co., Versanis Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Lloyd Klickstein. Mark E. Pruzanski has been the CEO of the company since 2021. Versanis Bio was acquired by Eli Lilly & Co. on August 14, 2023 for $1,925 million.

IFM Therapeutics LLC engages in the development and transformation of immunotherapy for patients with serious diseases. It focuses on developing small molecule drugs that target the innate immune system. The company was founded by Gary D. Glick, Luigi Franchi, Matthias Geyer, Eicke Latz, and Anthony W. Opipari, Jr. in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Indalo Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical firm that develops integrin antagonists for patients suffering from serious fibrotic diseases such as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The company was founded by David Griggs, Williamson Z. Bradford III, Peter Ruminski, and Robert W. Karr and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

MOMA Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company was founded by Dorothee Kern, Eva Nogales, Johannes Walter, and Timur Yusufzai and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC provides legal services. The firm offers services to the communications, education, environmental, health, immigration, public finance, real estate and tax industries. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

American Cancer Society, Inc. provides information on cancer occurrence, survival, prevention, early detection, and treatment. The non-profit company is based in Kennesaw, GA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's SHES department is an intramural research program with world-renowned epidemiologists and health scientists. The company was founded in 1913 by Candy Arrington. Karen E. Knudsen has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Solent NHS Trust provides trust services. The non-profit company is based in Millbrook, UK. Sue Harriman has been the CEO of the British company since 2014.

Founded in 1929, Glaxo Laboratories Ltd. is a pharmaceutical wholesaler that is part of GSK Plc. The company is based in London, UK.

Part of Xilio Therapeutics, Inc., Xilio Therapeutics LLC develops cancer biopharmaceuticals. The company is based in Waltham, MA. The CEO of the company is René Russo.

Autism Research Trust provides health care services. The private company is based in Leeds, UK. The CEO of the British company is Marie Davies.

Artios Pharma Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The firm develops a DNA Damage Response (DDR) is a cancer therapy. The company was founded by Niall Martin in May 2016 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

STipe Therapeutics ApS operates as a biotechnology company. It specializes in the immune-oncology field, pioneer therapies using a novel aspect of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) Pathway to target cancer. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Denmark.

Depixus SAS is a life science technology company based in Paris, France. Depixus is pioneering ground-breaking magna™ technology based on magnetic force spectroscopy, revealing dramatic new insights into complex biomolecular interactions at the single molecule level. The French company was founded by Gordon Hamilton and has been the CEO since incorporation.

Brandon Capital Partners Pty Ltd. (Brandon Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by David Fisher and Chris Nave. The firm is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.