Companies
These innovative companies are working to rapidly deliver better solutions to the world’s healthcare challenges.
Amplyx Pharmaceuticals
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Dinu Sen, CEO
Focus: Therapeutics

Improves the therapeutic index of small molecule drugs by creating new chemical entities or therapeutic combinations with existing drugs.
Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Joseph E. Payne, Founder and CEO; Pad Chivukula, Founder and CSO
Focus: Therapeutics

Arcturus is poised to become an industry leader in RNAi technologies for the treatment of rare orphan diseases.
Clinical Metabolomics (ClinMet)
Origin: Redwood City, CA | Leadership: Yesh Subramanian, CEO
Focus: Diagnostics & Pharma Services
Clinical trial based metabolomics platform for pharma to improve drug efficacy, reduce drug toxicity and identify mechanistic pathways for personalized medicine.
DNAtrix
Origin: Houston, Texas | Leadership: Frank Tufaro, CEO
Focus: Biotechnology

With a focus on brain tumors, we are in clinical development with highly potent oncolytic viruses to trigger anti tumor immunity.
Everist Genomics
Origin: Ann Arbor, MI | Leadership: Thomas Everist, Chairman
Focus: Personalized Medicine and Diagnostics

Develops and commercializes medically unique molecular and sensor based diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutic selection technologies for cancer and cardiovascular diseases, which help physicians improve medical outcomes and reduce the total cost of care.
Misfolding Diagnostics
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Undisclosed
Focus: Diagnostics

Research and development of mechanism-based, proprietary biomarker and in vitro immunodiagnosis products for the early detection of protein amyloid diseases.
NeuroGeneration
Origin: Los Angeles, CA | Leadership: Michel F. Levesque, Founder and Chairman
Focus: Biotechnology

NeuroGeneration is a clinical stage biotechnology company with neural stem cell products targeting neurological disorders caused by cell loss or injury. It also identifies new targets for endogenous repair in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
Neurolixis
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Adrian Newman-Tancredi, CSO
Focus: Therapeutics

Design and develop novel small molecule compounds against a number of targets in the CNS targeting treatment-resistant depression, cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease and developmental disorders such as Rett syndrome.
Renascions
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Henry Pan, CEO
Focus: Biopharmaceutical/Clinical Diagnostics/Bioinformatics

Focused on improving trial outcomes by selecting the right patient cohort, thereby potentially improving drug efficacy in oncology, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, viral infections and immunological diseases.
Silicon Biosystems
Origin: Bologna, Italy | Leadership: Giusepp Giorgini, CEO
Focus: Instrumentation
Proprietary lab-on-a-chip technology platform designed to individually identify, manipulate and sort specific cells within a heterogeneous population.
TEM Systems
Origin: Munich, Germany | Leadership: Robert Hillman
Focus: Diagnostics
Medical diagnostic systems that provide a comprehensive profile of a patient's coagulation status.
Wellspring Biosciences
Origin: San Diego, CA | Leadership: Troy Wilson, President & CEO
Focus: Therapeutics

Discovery and development of small molecule drugs that target signal transduction networks for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
Yolia Health
Origin: Mexico City, Mexico | Leadership: Alberto Osio, Founder & CEO
Focus: Medical Device

Non-invasive treatment to correct presbyopia using personalized contact lenses and specially formulated eye drops.
*Some companies have opted for non-disclosure and are therefore not included in this list.





