David Kabakoff

Salmedix, Inc. develops oncology and small molecule drugs to treat hematological malignancies. The company's product, Treanda, is currently in Phase II clinical trials in the United States and Canada for the treatment of indolent (slowly progressing) non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was founded in 2000 and is located in San Diego, CA.

Amplimmune, Inc. develops immune-based biological treatment for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Michael Richman, Charles G. Drake, Andrea Cox, Drew M. Pardoll, Jonathan D. Powell, Lieping Chen, David S. Kabakoff, and Elizabeth Jaffee in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Cebix, Inc. provided treatments for complications of diabetes. It developed Ersatta, a proprietary disease-modifying replacement peptide for the treatment of complications associated with diabetes, including diabetic peripheral neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, nephropathy, and retinopathy. The company was founded by John Wahren and Lars G. Ekman in 2008 and was headquartered in San Diego, CA.

HealthQuest Capital Management Co LLC (HealthQuest Capital ) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Garheng Kong. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Allylix, Inc. develops terpene products for flavor and fragrance, food ingredients, pharmaceuticals, agricultural, and biofuels markets. The company was founded by Joseph Chappel, Thomas E. Jurgensen, and Joseph Noel on January 4, 2005 and is headquartered in Lexington, KY.

Lineagen, Inc. provides diagnostic evaluation services. It focuses on genetic disorders such as autism, multiple sclerosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. The firm provides FirstStep, which provides physicians with integrated genetic testing, counseling, and developmental screening services. The company was founded by Stephen M. Prescott, Andy Peiffer, Michael S. Paul, Mark F. Leppert, Al R. Harris and Alex S. Lindell in 2006 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. markets and sells prescription products that treat infectious and respiratory diseases. Dura focuses on products and transactions that leverage its sales and marketing organization. Dura also intends, through the use of collaborative relationships, to develop the Spiros® motorized blisterdisk and Spiros® S2 pulmonary drug delivery systems for the local and systemic delivery of a wide range of medications. It is located in San Diego, CA.

Antiva Biosciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, topical therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded by Karl Y. Hostetler in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Biotheranostics, Inc. develops and provides diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tests that support physicians in the treatment of cancer patients. It has commercialized two proprietary, highly differentiated products focused on early stage breast cancer and all metastatic cancers, Breast Cancer Index (BCI) and CancerTYPE ID (CTID). The company was founded by Thomas M. Baer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Dauntless Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops specialty therapeutics via a one-asset, one-company model that is structured to facilitate operational efficiencies. The company was founded by Joel F. Martin and Michael F. Powell in May 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Principia Biopharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in designing and developing oral therapies to patients with significant unmet medical needs in immunology and oncology. It operates through Tailored Covalency platform, which enables to develop small molecule inhibitors of enzymes and receptor ligands with potencies and selectivities that rival those of injectable biologics, yet maintain the convenience of a pill. Its product pipeline includes PRN1008, PRN2246, PRN1371, and immunoproteasome inhibitor. The company was founded by Jack Taunton and Richard A. Miller on October 6, 2008 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Dauntless 2, Inc. operates in the healthcare industry focused on pharmaceutical business. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Dauntless 1, Inc. engages in pharmaceuticals. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Rainier Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops a targeted biologic for the potential treatment of metastatic bladder cancer. It provides Vofatamab, an antibody that is focused on the fibroblast growth factor of bladder and other cancer. The company was founded by Stephen Lau and is headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

Neurana Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in a biotechnology industry. It focused on the development of drugs to treat neuromuscular disorders. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Intrepida Bio, Inc. discovers and develops medicines to modulate the innate immune system to fight cancer and other diseases. The company was founded by Joel F. Martin and Olivier Laurent and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Sofinnova Investment Inc (Sofinnova Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by Jacques F. vallle & Joel F. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

RareCyte Inc. develops life science research and diagnostic that focuses on characterizing and isolating rare cells in the blood. It engages in bringing its technology to the life sciences research, drug development and diagnostic markets providing new tools to answer difficult questions related to cancer and cardiovascular disease. It's ground-breaking sccuCyte system is an open platform for the unbiased discovery and isolation of circulating tumor cells and circulating endothelial cells from whole blood. The company was founded by Ronald Seubert in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.