William Rastetter

Apoptos, Inc. discovers and develops small molecule anticancer drugs. The company focuses in drug therapies that directly induce tumor cell apoptosis. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA

Receptos LLC engages in the provision of developing and commercializing of therapeutic candidates for the treatment of immune and inflammatory diseases. It offers Ozanimod for relapsing multiple sclerosis, Ozanimod for inflammatory bowel disease and RPC4046 for eosinophilic esophagitis. The company was founded by Marcus F. Boehm, Robert J. Peach, William H. Rastetter, Hugh Rosen and Raymond C. Stevens on September 26, 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. used to develop and commercialize targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company’s products used to act chiefly through immune system mechanisms, exerting their effect by binding to specific, readily targeted immune cells in the patient’s blood or lymphatic system. The company was headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cerulean Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused company, which provides proprietary Dynamic Tumor Targeting Platform to develop differentiated therapies. It specializes in the design and development of nanopharmaceuticals. Cerulean's nanopharmaceuticals are drug-containing nanoparticles designed and optimized to enhance therapeutic agents, ranging from small molecules to therapeutic peptides and RNAi molecules. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane and Ram Sasisekharn on November 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Part of Biogen, Inc., Biogen Idec, Inc. (North Carolina) is a pharmaceutical company based in Durham, NC. The private company develops pharmaceutical products. Michel Pericles Vounatsos has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GRAIL LLC is a healthcare company. It engages in the development of a technology for early detection of cancer. The company was founded by Jeffrey T. Huber, William H. Rastetter, and Mostafa Ronaghi on September 11, 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

IIF Management Co LLC (Illumina Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Nicholas J. Naclerio. The firm is headquartered in Foster City, California.

Part of Is.Co Srl, MPRD Ltd. is a British company that manufactures and supplies tobacco machineries. The private company is based in Milton Keynes, UK. The company was founded in 1945. The CEO is Steven John Frankham.

Entos, Inc. is a company founded in 2019 and based in an undisclosed location. The American company is focused on disrupting therapeutic discovery with its cutting-edge platform, Orbnet, which combines AI-driven technology and automated synthetic development to rapidly design small-molecule therapeutics. The company's team is comprised of renowned scientists and engineers, including Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold, with world-class expertise in machine learning and software development, as well as computational and medicinal chemistry. The company was founded by Tom Miller and Fred Manby, and Tom Miller has been the CEO since incorporation.