Deborah D. Ascheim

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in developing innovative therapies that target the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer. The company was founded by Frank McCormick in February 1992 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Part of Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., Capricor, Inc. is a private company that provides cardiac stem cell therapeutics biotechnology services. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company was founded by Linda Marbán. Linda Marbán has been the CEO since incorporation. Capricor was acquired by Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. on November 21, 2013.

C3 Jian, Inc. operates as a biotechnological research and development company. It provides development and commercialization of pathogen-specific and antimicrobials that treat and prevent diseases caused by microbial dysbiosis. The company is headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA.

SillaJen Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes cancer therapeutics. It focuses on the development and commercialization of first-in-class, breakthrough targeted oncolytic immunotherapy products for solid tumors. It is focused on two main programs, lead product candidate, which is in mid-stage clinical development for the treatment of advanced primary liver cancer and colorectal cancer and JX-929 which is under investigation for a variety of other solid tumors. The company was founded by John C. Bell and David H. Kirn in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

HMGene, Inc. provides medical services. The company was founded on April 7, 2006 and is headquartered in North Brunswick, NJ.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

Baxter BioScience Corp. provides biopharmaceutical and vaccines services. It offers a portfolio of therapeutic proteins derived from either human plasma or recombinant technology. The company is headquartered in Beltsville, MD.

Favus Institutional Research LLC is an independent equity investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Dr. Elliot Favus in 2009. Favus Institutional Research focuses exclusively on providing healthcare equity research to institutional investors. They use fundamental analysis to evaluate the healthcare sector, with a focus on commercial, clinical data, legal, reimbursement, and regulatory catalysts.