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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.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of hospital health programs and services. It operates through the following business units: Provider Services, Insurance Services, UPMC International, and UPMC Enterprises. It also develops programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, orthopedics, and sports medicine. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

CureVac SE engages in the development of tumor immunotherapy. Its pipeline include mRNA-based Cancer Immunotherapies; Protein-based therapies; and mRNA-based Prophylactic Vaccines. The company was founded by Ingmar Hoerr, Florian von der Mülbe, Hans Georg Rammensee, Günther Jung, and Steve Pascolo in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

Time Bioventures (Time Bioventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by D.A. Wallach. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Kling Biotherapeutics BV is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in the Netherlands. The Dutch company has developed a pipeline that evaluates B cells in individuals with remarkable responses to cancer and infectious diseases. Kling Biotherapeutics' proprietary B cell immortalization platform enables rapid functional screening of antibodies, leading to the identification of several antibodies targeting novel epitopes and cancer-associated antigens with unique post-translational modifications. Michael Koslowski has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Wyeth Holdings LLC manufactures and distributes chemicals. The firm's chemical contains phosphate rock, calcium, lime, carbide and nitrogen which are used in fertilizers. The company was founded by Frank Washburn in 1907 and is headquartered in Wayne, NJ.

ENYO Pharma SA operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm's research and development is focused on human infecting viruses, with the first two programs being dedicated to the treatment of severe and seasonal flu and chronic hepatitis B. The company was founded by Jacky Vonderscher, Jean-Jacques Garaud, Benoît de Chassey, Laurène Meyniel-Schicklin, Patrice André and Vincent Lotteau January 2014 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Dracen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops immuno-metabolism drugs. The company was founded by Barbara Slusher, Jonathan D. Powell, Pavel Majer, and Rana Rais and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The California Institute for Biomedical Research provides biomedical research services. The non-profit company is based in La Jolla, CA.

Deeplite develops artificial intelligence solutions. Its product, Neutrino, is a multi-objective design space exploration approach for deep neural network (DNN) models. The company was founded by Nick Romano, Davis Sawyer and Ehsan Saboori and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

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.