Robert Friesen

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Impatients N.V. operates an online platform for drug innovations. It provides physicians and patients that are excluded from clinical trials access to drugs in development via early access programs. The company was founded by Ronald Brus, SJaak Vink, Govert J. Schouten, Witt Jan, Erdem Yavuz, and René Beukema in 2012 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the United Kingdom.

Part of GSK Plc, Sterling Winthrop, Inc. is a private company that specializes in cameras and duplicating machines. The company is based in Rochester, NY. Sterling Winthrop was acquired by GSK Plc from Eastman Kodak Co. on November 03, 1994 for $2,930 million.

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.

Circassia Ltd. develops medicines for allergic and auto-immune diseases. The company was founded by Anthony Barrington Kay and Mark Larché on December 29, 1998 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Novartis Pharma AG engages in the research in as well as the production and distribution of pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, and biotechnological products. It also provides related services. The company was founded on October 25, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Part of Novartis AG, Sandoz Ltd. is a British company that develops, produces and markets medicines. The private company is based in Camberley, UK and was founded in 1981.

ViiV Healthcare Ltd. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. Its medicine include Triumeq, Tivicay, Selzentry, Celesentri, Epzicom, Kivexa, Ziagen, Trizivir, Combivir, Retrovir AZT, Lexiva, Telzir, Viracept and Rescriptor. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Brentford, the United Kingdom.

Part of Lifexx SA, Immodulon Therapeutics Ltd. is a late-stage clinical biotechnology company based in Uxbridge, UK. Immodulon is developing a highly differentiated cancer immunotherapy approach that primes the patient’s own innate immune system with the aim to significantly enhance the efficacy of a broad range of anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors. The British company is developing imm-101, a heat-killed mycobacterium obuense, as a broad-spectrum immunomodulatory agent with the potential to treat a range of difficult-to-treat tumors including those considered to be immunologically “ cold, ” such as pancreatic cancer. Immodulon's imm-101 based immunotherapy complements other cancer therapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy. The private company is focused on developing safe and effective immunotherapy treatments. The company was founded in 2007 by Charles Akle, John L. Stanford. Gertjan Bartlema has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Founded in 1998, Kyowa Kirin Ltd. is a British pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceutical products. Part of Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd., the private company is based in London, UK.

Leyden Laboratories B.V. is a biotechnology company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Leyden Labs aims to protect humanity from known and future viruses by targeting commonalities of viral families. The Dutch company has developed a portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates that may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The company's energetic team of world-renowned biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses. Leyden Labs is backed with $200m by blue-chip investors Casdin Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital, Byers Capital/Brook Byers, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Invus, and Bluebird Ventures. The company was founded in June 2020 by Koenraad Wiedhaup, Jaap Goudsmit, Domenico Valerio, and Ronald H. P. Brus, with Koenraad Wiedhaup serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Dr. Reddy's Research & Development BV is engaged in the development and manufacture of injectable pharmaceutical products. It provides formulation, development, drug delivery, and clinical material manufacturing services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. The company was founded by Joost J. M. Holthuis on July 20, 1995 and is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands.

Cristal Delivery BV develops and manufactures nanomedicines for therapeutic drug optimization. It offers pipeline, oncology, and inflammation programs. The company was founded by Joost J. M. Holthuis and Cristianne Rijcken in April 2011 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.