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BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. (BNYMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1951 and formerly known as The Dreyfus Corp. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). BNYMIA serves as an investment advisor to mutual funds, such as the BNY Mellon Family of Funds and The BNY Mellon Funds Trust, and as sub-investment advisor to non-affiliated mutual funds. Formed in 2009, Dreyfus Cash Investment Strategies (Dreyfus) is a division of the BNYMIA that offers money market strategies to US and non-US institutional investors.

JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (JPMIM) is a global, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as the result of Chase Manhattan's purchase of Robert Fleming Holdings and the subsequent merger of Chase and JPMorgan. In January 2010, JPMorgan Investment Advisors merged into JP Morgan Investment Management. JPMIM is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The firm primarily provides investment advisory services to both US and non-US institutional and retail clients.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP (GSAMLP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GSAM Holdings LLC, and their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). Founded in 1988, GSAMLP provides investment solutions to a range of individual and institutional investors worldwide.

Oldtech, Inc. was engaged in developing treatments for conditions that affect the back of the eye, including age related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME). The company was headquartered in New York.

Autonomic Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes innovative therapies for the treatment of severe headache. Its product, the ATI Neurostimulation System, is used for the treatment of acute pain of cluster headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of vaccines for infectious disease and cancer. Its programs focus on a novel lipid nanocapsule platform technology for delivering vaccines in a form mimicking the structure of pathogens to elicit potent immunity in prophylactic and therapeutic settings. The company was founded by Satish Jindal and Darrell Irvine on August 10, 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Andera Partners SCA (Andera Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Pierre-Michel Passy. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

NOXXON Pharma AG operates a clinical stage biotechnology company. Its core focus is on cancer treatment. The firm offers effectiveness of cancer treatments including immuno-oncology approaches such as immune checkpoint inhibition and current standards of care such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The company was founded in 1997 by Sven Klussmann, Jens-Peter Fürste and Thomas Klein and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

JenaValve Technology GmbH develops and manufactures transcatheter valve implantation systems for transapical and transfemoral implantation. The firm offers a therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement for high-risk patients suffering from aortic heart valve stenosis. The company was founded by Markus Ferrari, Volker Guyenot and Hans-Reiner Figulla in 2006 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

JenaValve Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems. The company was founded on March 27, 2006 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation BV develops medical devices. The company was founded by Sjaak Deckers in 2011 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Allecra Therapeutics GmbH focuses on the development of novel treatments to combat multi drug-resistant bacterial infections. The firm serves the bio and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Nicholas Benedict and Stuart Shapiro in 2013 and is headquartered in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

HighLife SAS develops percutaneous mitral valve replacement therapies. It offers a minimally invasive prosthetic mitral valve that is implanted on a beating heart, while preserving the native valve structure and respecting the surrounding anatomy. The company was founded by Georg Börtle in 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Ariceum Therapeutics GmbH is a German clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company that focuses on the diagnosis and precision treatment of certain neuroendocrine and other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers. Ariceum Therapeutics is based in Berlin, DE, and has subsidiaries in various locations worldwide. The company's lead targeted systemic radiopharmaceutical product, -satoreotide tetraxetan ("satoreotide"), is an antagonist of the somatostatin type 2 (sstr2) receptor, which is overexpressed in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and some aggressive cancers such as small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and Merkel cell carcinoma. Ariceum is also developing a radiolabeled PARP-inhibitor (ATT-001), which is slated to enter the clinic in early 2024. The company was founded in 2021, and Manfred Rüdiger has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

T-Knife GmbH operates as an next-generation adoptive T-cell company using its proprietary humanized T-cell receptor mouse platform to treat solid tumors. The company was founded by Thomas Blankenstein, Elisa Kieback and Holger Specht in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Arvelle Therapeutics GmbH provides treatment for patients suffering form CNS disorders. The company was founded by Ilise Lombrado, Gregory Mark Weinhoff and Mark Altmeyer and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on drugging transcription factors to develop small molecule medicines. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company's integrated discovery engine converges genetic, biochemical, and chemical insights to reveal druggable pockets and identify small molecule ligands capable of modulating transcription factors of high therapeutic potential. Flare's proteomic and mass spectrometry platform is powered by a proprietary library of electrophilic compounds unique to the company. The team has rapidly established an emerging pipeline of programs, highlighted by FX-909, a first-in-class investigational orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of PPARG, a master regulator of the luminal lineage in advanced urothelial cancer that has entered the clinic. Flare Therapeutics was launched in 2021 and is backed by founding investor Third Rock Ventures, as well as Boxer Capital, Nextech Invest, Casdin Capital, Invus Financial Advisors, and Eventide Asset Management. The company was founded by Mitchell Lazar, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Robert J. Sims, and Steven L. McKnight. Amit Rakhit has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Part of 89bio, Inc., 89Bio Ltd. is an Israeli company that develops therapies and drugs for the treatment of patients living with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. The company is based in Herzliya, Israel.

Suzhou Connect Biopharma Co. Ltd. develops novel medicines for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and inflammation. Its products include CBP-307, CBP-174, and CBP-201. The company was founded by Zheng Wei and William Pan in 2012 and is headquartered in Taicang, China.