Nathan Higginson-Scott

Pandion Operations, Inc. develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory, and transplant indications. The company was founded by Anthony J. Coyle, Jo Viney, Alan Crane, and David Sachs in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham.

XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for the treatment of cancer. The firm develops pharmaceutical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological, tumor and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Rakesh Kumar Jain, Andrew Werk Cook, Edwin L. Steele, David H. Koch, Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes and Robert S. Langer, Jr. in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. develops and deploys precision functional genomics to discover therapies that transform patient lives. The company was founded by Tim Wang and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. is a biotechnology company located in the biotechnology hub. The American company is making a major shift in how immunology therapies are discovered and developed, enabled by machine learning. Seismic Therapeutic has a growing preclinical stage and first-in-class biologics pipeline, derived from its integrated impact platform, to control dysregulated adaptive immunity and address multiple autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Joanne Viney, Alan L. Crane, and Joanne Viney has been the CEO since incorporation.

Gotham Therapeutics Corp. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical medicines. The firm develops new treatment options for patients suffering from cancers, auto-immune and neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Samie Jaffrey in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

NodThera Ltd. researches and develops novel inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome. The company is headquartered in Little Chesterford, the United Kingdom.

Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Inc. provides research, development, and manufacturing capabilities in cell therapy and genetic engineering. The company was founded by Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Fred Ramsdell, Alexander Rudensky, and Qizhi Tang in 2019 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

Summit Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a holding company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of antibiotic medicines. The company seeks to expand its product candidate portfolio through the development of new mechanism and precision antibiotics. Summit Therapeutics was founded by Stephen Graham Davies and Kay Dame Davies in January 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Kyras Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops drugs for incurable cancers and developmental disorders caused by RAS gene mutations. The company was founded by Brent R. Stockwell in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Jnana Therapeutics, Inc. provides drug development services. The firm focuses on immunometabolism changing the metabolic pathways in immune cells to affect function; lysosomal function and mucosal defense. The company was founded by Stuart L. Schreiber, Ramnik Xavier, Joanne Kotz and Joel C. Barrish and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Venatorx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel anti-infective agents to address the threat of antibiotic resistance. It offers antibiotic resistant bacteria and Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae a family of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to all known ?-lactam antibiotics, including penicillins, cephalosporins, monobactams, and carbapenems. The company was founded by Christopher J. Burns, Luigi Xerri, and Daniel Pevear in 2010 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs. It manufactures and markets prescription drugs used to treat a number of diseases and conditions including cardiovascular, dermatological, central nervous system, bone disease, cancer, organ transplantation, psychiatry, infectious disease, and respiratory. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in East Hanover, NJ.

Stablix, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in New York, NY. The company is focused on establishing a new paradigm for tackling diverse diseases by harnessing the power of the body's own cellular machinery through targeted protein stabilization. Stablix's restored™ platform generates heterobifunctional small molecules (restoracs™) that selectively recruit active deubiquitinases (dubs) to target proteins for precise removal of ubiquitin to restore protein function. The company is currently advancing its lead programs towards clinical studies. The company's platform is based on the work of Henry Colecraft, Ph.D., professor of physiology and cellular biophysics, and professor of pharmacology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Stablix was founded in June 2021 with a $63 million series A led by founding investor Versant Ventures with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Cormorant Asset Management, Euclidean Capital, and Alexandria Venture Investments. Stuart Anthony Kingsley has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

The Society of Kauffman Fellows is a venture capital fellowship program that aims to foster innovative leaders. The non-profit company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The program lasts for two years and includes industry events, summits, and a venture capital fund. The CEOs of the company are Jeff Harbach, Costello Trish.

CalciMedica, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in drug development. It discovers and develops novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and organ transplant rejection. The company was founded by Gonul Velicelebi, Kenneth Stauderman, Anjana Rao, Patrick Hogan, Stefan Feske, Michael Harpold, Tom Reed, and Jack Roos in December 2006 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Extera Partners LLC provides business advisory services. It offers corporate and business development, product commercialization, and company turnarounds services. The firm specializes in the planning for and execution of strategic transactions with life science industry partners and financial investors across the globe. The company was founded by Vikas Goyal, Lothar Koob and Jonathan Reis in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Nimbus Therapeutics LLC provides drug discovery research services. It is a computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinical development. The company was founded by Bruce Lee Booth in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Gladius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops novel drugs to treat multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections. The company was founded by Larry D. Sutton and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

Morphic Therapeutic, Inc. engages in biotechnology drug development activity. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

US Ecology Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of industrial waste management and recycling services to commercial and government entities, including refineries and chemical production facilities, manufacturers, electric utilities, steel mills, medical and academic institutions, and waste brokers. It operates through the Environmental Services, and Field and Industrial Services segments. The Environmental Service segment provides a range of hazardous material management services including the transportation, recycling, treatment, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste at company-owned landfills, wastewater, and other treatment facilities. The Field and Industrial Services segment offers packaging and collection of hazardous waste and total waste management solutions at customer sites and through its 10-day storage facilities. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides legal services. It specializes in the areas of corporate law, securities, corporate, litigation, mergers, real estate, pro bono, investment management and taxation. Their clients include industrial, commercial, financial, private funds, governmental, educational, charitable and cultural enterprises and entities. The company was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell in 1879 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops anti-cancer immunotherapy products. The firm specializes in the discovery and development of immunotherapy products against cancer. It develops IMA901, a combination of multiple tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans Georg Rammensee, Hansjörg Schild, and Peter Brossart in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.