Usman Azam

Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Corp. manufactured pharmaceutical products. It offered therapeutic products, research equipment, and related services. The firm developed drugs for the treatment of cancer, infectious diseases, and immune disorders. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Victoria, Canada.

Ethicon, Inc. develops and markets medical products and devices for surgery. It offers different types of services such as wound management, women's health, and cardiovascular surgery. The company was founded by George F. Merson in 1915 and is headquartered in Somerville, NJ.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs. It manufactures and markets prescription drugs used to treat a number of diseases and conditions including cardiovascular, dermatological, central nervous system, bone disease, cancer, organ transplantation, psychiatry, infectious disease, and respiratory. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in East Hanover, NJ.

Ethicon Corp. manufactures and markets surgical sutures. The company is headquartered in Somerville, NJ.

ARM is a Washington, DC-based multi-stakeholder advocacy organization that promotes global initiatives necessary to facilitate access to life-giving advances in regenerative medicine. The organization promotes legislative, regulatory reimbursement, investment, technical, and other initiatives to accelerate the development of safe and effective regenerative medicine technologies. ARM also works to increase public understand- ing of the field and its potential to transform human healthcare. Prior to the formation of ARM in 2009, there was a need for more coordinated and cohesive advocacy representing the interests of the companies, research institutions, investors and patient groups that comprise the entire regenerative medicine community. Today ARM has more than 140 members and is the leading global advocacy organization in this field.

Inspirna, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics. It provides drugs for melanoma, colorectal and triple-negative breast cancers. The firm identifies novel cancer targets using a microRNA based target discovery platform that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. The company was founded by Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail Tavazoie, Shahram Seyedin-Noor and Saeed Tavazoie in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tmunity Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products that free the immunological potential of T cells to treat disease indications. It develops novel T Cell Receptor (TCR) engineered T cells, regulatory T cells (Treg), and universal engineered T cell platforms. The company was founded by Carl H. June, Anne Chew, Bruce Levine, Yangbing Zhao, James L. Riley and Bruce Blazar and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Empyrean Neuroscience is an American genetic engineering company that specializes in developing neuroactive therapeutics to treat neuropsychiatric and neurologic disorders. The company is based in and, but their location is not specified. The company's platform allows for the creation of small molecule therapeutics through precision genetic modification, transformation, and regeneration of fungi and plants. Additionally, their platform enables the discovery of novel small molecules that may exhibit therapeutic properties.