Kevin O’Brien

Casdin Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Eli Casdin in 2012. They provide investment management services to pooled investment vehicle, or more specifically, a private investment fund, the securities of which are offered to certain qualified investors on a private placement basis.

Invetx, Inc. operates as a veterinary therapeutics company. It focuses on biopharmaceuticals that bring human biotechnology to animal health. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

Cedilla Therapeutics, Inc. operats as a biotechnology company. It engages in discovering and exploiting insights into protein stability. The company was founded by Alan D. D?Andrea, Steve Gygi, Matthew P. Jacobson, William G. Kaelin, Jr. and Jack Taunton on September 6, 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Prominex, Inc. manufactures molecular diagnostic assays for infectious disease testing. The company was founded by Paul Thomas and Paul Gargan in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

C2i Genomics, Inc. is engaged in the research and development on cancer. It provides ultrasensitive test for cancer. The company was founded by Asaf Zviran and Ezra Sofer in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GeneMatters LLC operates as a digital technology platform that provides genomic medicine delivery services. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN.

iVexSol, Inc. engages in operation of a viral vector manufacturing firm. It provides lentiviral vectors (LVV), a gene delivery vehicles that are a critical component in the manufacturing of life-changing cell and gene therapies (CGTs). The company was founded by Rodney L. Rietze and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

ACA Compliance Group Holdings LLC engages in the provision of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services. The company was founded by Ted Eichenlaub, Jeffrey C. Morton, Barry Schwartz, Gary Watkins and Robert Louis Stype, Jr. in February 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research operates a pharmaceutical research organization. The private company is based in Emeryville.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AllianzGI US) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 as Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC. In 2022, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC, which is ultimately owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), acquired the firm from Allianz SE (ETR: ALV). AllianzGI US provides portfolio management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients as well as certain Wrap Fee Programs.

Xcell Biosciences, Inc engages in the development of proprietary cell control system for use in research, drug development, and regenerative medicine applications. Its products include Avatar cell control system that allow complete control of key physiological conditions found in cellular microenvironments, enabling rapid optimization of precise conditions to achieve long-term cell maintenance, expansion, and phenotypes of interest. The company was founded by Brian Feth and James Lim and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Abbratech, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on precision antibodies. Abbratech is based in Branford, CT. The company offers services such as antigen and project design, recombinant antibody development, antibody optimization, and antibody production. Abbratech uses the best available in vivo and in vitro methods for antibody discovery and applies knowledge gained from the past 15 years of human genome sequencing and antibody engineering to produce high affinity and highly specific recombinant antibodies. The company was founded in 2020 by Michael P. Weiner, who has been the CEO since then.

Imagen Technologies, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops and offers devices for the prevention of diagnostic errors. The company was founded by Alexander Dresner, Robert Lindsey, Thomas Stuart Hotchkiss and Sumit Chopra in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

IDRx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in an undisclosed location. The American company is dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision therapies. IDRx aims to address the limitations of today's precision cancer medicines with highly potent and selective targeted therapies to stop key tumor escape mechanisms and prolong response to therapy. The company's pipeline programs include small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and idrx-73, designed to inhibit key genetic drivers and drug-resistant mutations of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). IDRx was founded in 2021 by Alexis A. Borisy, Nicholas B. Lydon, Ben Auspitz, George D. Demetri, and Robert M. Forrester. Ben Auspitz has been the CEO since incorporation.

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

Solebury Trout LLC engages in communications services. The company is headquartered in the United States.

PanTHERA CryoSolution, Inc. designs and manufactures patented ice recrystallization inhibitors for use in the cryopreservation of cells, tissues and organs. The company was founded by Robert Ben and Jason Acker and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.