Heather Elizabeth Preston

Otonomy, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. engages in the development of therapeutics for neurotology. The firm’s product pipeline includes OTIVIDEX (dexamethasone) Meniere's disease, OTIPRIO (ciprofloxacin otic suspension) acute otitis media with tubes (AOMT), OTO-313 (gacyclidine) tinnitus, OTO-413 (BDNF) hidden hearing Loss, OTO-510 (otoprotectant) prevent CIHL, OTO-6XX (hair cell regeneration) severe hearing loss. It operates under the Otiprio brand. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Jeffrey Harris, Rick Friedman, and Allen F. Ryan on May 6, 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Albireo Pharma, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel bile acid modulators for the treatment of orphan pediatric liver diseases and gastrointestinal disorders. Its pipeline products include Odevixibat, A3384, and Elobixibat. The company was founded by Jan Peter Mattsson and Per-Göran Gillberg on December 8, 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Tarrant Capital IP LLC operates as a venture capital firm. It serves the consumer, retail, technology, internet, healthcare, energy, cleantech, digital media, real estate, renewables and transportation industries. The company was founded by David Bonderman and Jim Coulter in 1992 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Albireo Ltd. develops therapies that address medical needs in the gastrointestinal and liver disease area. It is a biotechnology company that develops therapies that address unmet medical needs in the gastrointestinal area and liver disease area. The firm's programs include Cholestatic Liver Diseases; Bile Acid Mal-absorption; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; Atopic Dermatitis and Psoriasis; and Post-Operative Adhesions. The company was founded by Jan Peter Mattsson in February 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Viral Logic Systems Technology Corp. provides pharmaceutical products and services. It develops treatments for autoimmune, inflammatory diseases and disorders. The company was founded by Steven R. Wiley and Craig A. Smith in 2004 and headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Virobay, Inc. develops protease inhibitors for the treatment of neuropathic pain, cancer, autoimmune and liver diseases. It utilize cysteine cathepsin platform for the development and commercialization of novel drugs. The firm's research & development activities focuses on neuropathic pain, autoimmune diseases and liver fibrosis. The company was founded by Robert F. G. Booth on May 18, 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Anaborex, Inc. provides clinical research services for metabolic diseases. The company develops drugs for the treatment of cancer related wasting syndrome. It was founded in 2005 by Alan Saven and Jorge Nieva and is located in La Jolla, CA

Avalyn Pharma, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops improved therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other severe respiratory diseases. The company was founded by Richard Glenn Vincent and Mark W. Surber in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Nan Fung Life Sciences (Nan Fung Life Sciences) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vervain Group (Holdings) Ltd founded in 1954 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Oxford Science Enterprises PLC (Oxford Science Enterprises) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Lundbeck Seattle BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on transforming the migraine treatment paradigm through the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapeutic antibodies. Its product includes Eptinezumab, is an investigational monoclonal antibody (mAb) that inhibits calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and is currently in late-stage clinical development for the prevention of migraine. The company was founded by Randall C. Schatzman, Mark J. Litton, and John A. Latham in January 2004 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.

Akouos, Inc. is a precision genetic medicine company, which engages in the development of precision genetic medicines to restore and preserve hearing in genetically-defined patient populations. The firm's lead product candidate, AK-OTOF, is a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. It develops targeted adeno-associated viral vector based gene therapies for sensorineural hearing loss, which results from dysfunction or damage to sensory cells and nerve fibers of the inner ear. The company was founded by Emmanuel J. Simons, William F. Sewell, Richard H. Smith, Luk H. Vandenberghe, and Michael J. McKenna on March 7, 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. engages in business of research and development of therapies utilizing muscarinic cholinergic receptors to treat psychosis and cognitive impairment in numerous central nervous system disorders. The company was founded by Andrew Miller, Eric Elenko, and Peter Jeffrey Conn in July 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TPG Biotech (TPG biotech) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Entasis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibacterial products for serious drug-resistant bacterial infections. Its anti-infective discovery platform has produced a pipeline of differentiated programs, which is bacterial infections, including ETX2514SUL (targeting Acinetobacter baumannii infections), ETX0282CPDP (targeting Enterobacteriaceae infections), Non-Beta-lactam PBP inhibitor, and Zoliflodacin. The company was founded in May 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC (Pivotal Bioventure) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco owns and operates museums. Its collections include European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. CA.

Azura Ophthalmics Ltd. develops therapies for meibomian gland dysfunction. It offers a portfolio of compounds in combination with a novel drug delivery platform to advance a portfolio of treatments for meibomian gland dysfunction. The company was founded by Yair Alster in 1980 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Entasis Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the discovey, development, and commercialization of novel antibacterial prodcuts to treat serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Its pipeline includes ETX2514SUL, targeting Acinetobacter baumannii infections; ETX0282CPDP, targeting Enterobacteriaceae infections; a Non-Beta-lactam PBP inhibitor, targeting Gram-negative infections; and zoliflodacin, targeting Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The company was founded by Manoussos Perros in May 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.