Armen Vidian

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. develops tissue-based diagnostic solutions. It designs and delivers medical diagnostic systems and slide-based cancer tests. Its products include absolute Eosinophil count (AEC) detection kit intended for laboratory use to identify targets by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue or frozen tissue on a BenchMark and BenchMark XT instrument and DISCOVERY XT research instrument that brings automation, reproducibility, and productivity to IHC and in situ hybridization (ISH) slide preparation and processing. The company was founded by Thomas M. Grogan in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

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.

Paradigm Diagnostics, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes high throughput microbiological screening tests. It has developed and is currently selling diagnostic tests to the food processing industry that allow them to screen environmental samples for pathogens in- house. The company was founded by Alan D. Olstein in 2001 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. provides treatment to cancer patients and also researches new cancer diagnostics, treatments, and preventions. The firm's patients receive treatment through its cancer centers operated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The company was founded by Sidney Farber in 1947 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. provides indemnity insurance and medicare extension programs. The firm offers medical and dental plans, pharmacy coverage, vision coverage and health savings accounts. The company was founded in 1937 and is located in Boston, MA.

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

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Arizona, Inc. engages in the provision of health insurance products and services. It offers various health plans for individuals, families, and small and large businesses. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Rain Bird Corp., Inc. manufactures and distributes residential and light commercial irrigation products. Its products include plumbing fixtures, fittings, trim, lawn hose nozzles and sprinklers. The company was founded by Mary E. LaFetra in 1933 and is headquartered in Azusa, CA.

Genzyme Pharmaceuticals develops and manufactures chemically synthesized pharmaceutical materials and technologies for the pharmaceutical industry and focuses on lipids, peptides, carbohydrates, oligonucleotides, and custom small molecules. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce is a non profit organization. It offers business community services and programs such as government affairs forums, executive forums, women’s network, city awake, chamber networking group, city to city, and webinars. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Critical Path Institute is a nonprofit organization established in 2005 as a public and private partnership with the FDA's Critical Path Initiative program. The non-profit company is based in Tucson, AZ, and operates from Ireland with additional staff in multiple other locations. The company's mission is to catalyze the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science, accelerating the path to a healthier world. The company orchestrates the development of drug development tools through an innovative, collaborative approach to the sharing of data and expertise, and accelerate the pace and reduce the costs of medical product development by building consensus among the participating institutions. The company was founded in 2005 by Raymond L. Woosley, Glenn C. Rice. Daniel M. Jorgensen has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

The Personalized Medicine Coalition promotes the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine concepts, services, and products. The private company is based in Washington and was founded by Patrick F. Terry.

Allscripts Healthcare LLC provides computer related services. The company was founded on May 25, 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Transcriptic, Inc. engages in the conversion of biology into an information technology, driven by data, and computation. It specializes in biology, automation, and software engineering. The company was founded by Max Joseph Hodak on February 14, 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

GenePeeks, Inc. develops software that provides genetic information to reduce the risk of heritable diseases. It simulates the genetic reduction and recombination by digitally weaving together the DNA of prospective parents. The company was founded by Anne Morriss and Lee Silver in 2009 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

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.

Trinnovate Ventures, Inc. (Trinnovate Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Arizona, Inc. founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

BlueStone Venture Partners LLC (BlueStone Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Mara G. Aspinall and Tom Nickoloff. The firm is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.

Ambys Medicines, Inc. develops regenerative medicine therapies for serious liver diseases. The company was founded by Martin Burke, Markus Grompe, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and Holger Willenbring and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Maze Therapeutics, Inc. is a is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of portfolio of therapeutic candidates for a number of genetically defined diseases. It focuses on translating genetic insights into new medicines by utilizing an approach that combines the analysis of large-scale human genetics data, cutting-edge functional genomics, and an array of drug discovery approaches. The company was founded by Mark Daly, Aaron D. Gitler, Stephen Elledge, Sekar Kathiresan, and Jonathan S. Weissman in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pyx Health, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. The company was founded by Cynthia Jordan in 2017 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Septerna, Inc. is a biotechnology company located in an undisclosed location. The American company is focused on developing novel, oral small molecule drugs that target the entire class of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The company's Native Complex™ platform allows for the rapid application of new technologies for industrial-scale drug discovery to address both validated GPCRs and many GPCRs that have been undruggable and unexploited to date. Septerna is building a pipeline of GPCR-targeted, oral small molecule drug candidates, led by its program targeting the parathyroid hormone 1 receptor (PTH1R) for the treatment of hypoparathyroidism. The company was founded in 2022 by scientific founders who have made groundbreaking GPCR discoveries, including Patrick Sexton, Arthur Christopoulos, Robert Joseph Lefkowitz, and Jeffrey T. Finer. Jeffrey T. Finer has been the CEO since incorporation.

Third Rock Ventures LLC (Third Rock Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Mark Levin, Robert Tepper, Kevin Starr and Nick Leschly. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.