David Granville

viDA Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It offers discovery, development and commercialization of novel and targeted therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory and age related diseases. The firm's discovery platform is based on novel research regarding a distinctly different and recently identified, extracellular role for granzymes in the destruction and inflammation of tissues. The company was founded by Alistair Duncan Jr. and David Granville in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

QLT, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development and commercialization of innovative ocular products that address the unmet medical needs of patients and clinicians worldwide. It also focuses on developing synthetic retinoid program for the treatment of certain inherited retinal diseases. The company was founded by Julia G. Levy and John C. Brown on February 3, 1981 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.