Brendan M. O'Leary

Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products. It produces and commercializes vonapanitase for the treatment of renal and vascular disease. The company was founded by F. Nicholas Franano and William P. Whitaker in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Serica Technologies, Inc. produces silk-based biomaterial products for tissue rejuvenation. The company develops knee ligament replacements from silk biomaterial. The company was founded on May 31, 2000 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Silk Therapeutics, Inc. provides silk protein solutions for human health. It sells its products through its online store. The firm’s PureProC, a film formulation that protects, stabilizes and delivers the use of vitamin C for duration with anti-aging and skin health benefits. The company was founded Gregory H. Altman and Rebecca Horan in June 2013 and is headquartered in Medford, MA.

Prism Venture Management LLC (Prism Venture Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Bob C. Fleming and John L. Brooks. The firm is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.

Locus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics to address major unmet medical needs. Locus utilizes powerful and proprietary computational technologies running on Linux-based supercomputer clusters to simultaneously identify relevant binding sites on protein disease targets and rapidly generate novel, small molecules that bind specifically to those protein sites. In contrast to other computational approaches, the Locus technology requires only a high-resolution, 3-dimensional structure of the target protein to implement its drug discovery process. Locus Pharmaceuticals is synthesizing and testing novel drug candidates for the treatment of debilitating and life-threatening human diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, arthritis and inflammation.

Atritech, Inc. is a private company that provides therapies to treat patients suffering from atrial fibrillation. They offer their services to clients who are at increased risk of stroke by offering permanent alternatives to medications. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corp. provides novel protein and peptide drugs with pharmacology and trans-bodies to replace conventional monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded by Christopher P. Prior, Andrew Turner and David R. King in 2002 and is headquartered in Rosemont, PA.

Trius Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company which focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative antibiotics for life-threatening infections. It engages in developing tedizolid phosphate an intravenous, or IV, and oral antibiotic, for the treatment of serious gram-positive bacterial infections, initially for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, ABSSSI, and subsequently for other indications, including pneumonia. ABSSSI is a new classification for complicated skin and skin structure infections, or cSSSI. Tedizolid phosphate is an IV and orally administered second generation oxazolidinone. The company develops antibiotics for gram-negative infections. Trius Therapeutics was founded by John Finn and John P. Schmid in June 2004, and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Alacer Biomedical, Inc. distributes silk based biomaterial products for tissue rejuvenation. The company was founded on February 24, 2010 and is headquartered in Medford, MA.