Wellington Management

Wellington Management is a leading investment adviser founded in 1928, based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in major global financial centers. The firm specializes in providing comprehensive investment management solutions for a diverse range of institutional clients, including sovereign institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices, insurers, and wealth managers across more than 50 countries. Wellington Management employs a collaborative and research-driven approach, harnessing proprietary research to identify opportunities and manage risks in global equity, fixed income, alternatives, and multi-asset markets. The firm's structure fosters independent thought and enables teams to operate as entrepreneurial entities, ensuring they have the necessary resources to achieve strong, consistent results. Wellington Management also recognizes the importance of collaborating with consultants to address client needs effectively. Their commitment to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) principles further enhances their investment strategies, reflecting a modern understanding of responsible investing.

Pamela Choney

Partner and SVP

Duckworth C.F.A., CFA, Cheryl McDaniel

Partner

Patrick Eastwood

Director Client Integration & Administration and Managing Director

Anita M. Killian

Director, Partner, VP, Global Industry Analyst and Portfolio Manager

Adele Kohler

Director, Alternative Investment Solutions

Mandel C.F.A., CFA, Mark D.

Portfolio Manager

Danny Sharp

Director, Midwest Region and Business Development Manager

Edward Joseph Steinborn

Chief Financial Officer

Anji Stewart

Director and Head of EMEA Marketing

Swords C.F.A., Brendan Joseph

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Witheiler

Managing Director

Past deals in Therapeutics

Boundless Bio

Series C in 2023
Boundless Bio, Inc., biopharma company, develops therapies and medicines for the treatment of cancers. It offers therapeutics based on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) one of the drivers of the aggressive cancers, such as cancers characterized by high copy number amplification of oncogenes. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. Boundless Bio, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in LA Jolla, California.

Acrivon Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Acrivon Therapeutics is a biotech company specializing in drug development through early clinical treatment success.

Ventyx Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Ventyx Biosciences is a biotechnology company with a diverse portfolio of best-in-class highly differentiated clinical and pre-clinical stage programs focused on high-value targets.

NiKang Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
NiKang Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech company focused on discovering and developing innovative small molecule oncology medicines to help patients with unmet medical needs. Its discovery approach is informed by target structure biology and capitalizes on structure-based drug design enabling a rapid and efficient discovery and development of proprietary drug candidates with the most desirable pharmacological features into clinical studies.

Nuvalent

Series B in 2021
Nuvalent is a biotechnology company that develops targeted therapies for clinically proven kinase targets in cancer. Leveraging deep expertise in structure-based design, Nuvalent develops innovative small molecules with exquisite target selectivity to overcome resistance, minimize adverse events, and drive more durable responses. It is advancing a robust pipeline with parallel lead programs in ROS1-positive and ALK-positive NSCLC, along with multiple discovery-stage research programs. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Boundless Bio

Series B in 2021
Boundless Bio, Inc., biopharma company, develops therapies and medicines for the treatment of cancers. It offers therapeutics based on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) one of the drivers of the aggressive cancers, such as cancers characterized by high copy number amplification of oncogenes. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. Boundless Bio, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in LA Jolla, California.

Scribe Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Scribe Therapeutics Inc. engages in the engineering, delivery, and development of in vivo therapies and CRISPR molecules to rewrite and repair the underlying cause of genetic disorders. Its technology includes X-Editing (XE), an engineered molecule for therapeutic use and in vivo genetic modification. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Entrada Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Entrada Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the treatment of diseases through the intracellular delivery of biologic. The company enables intracellular delivery of proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids and allows development of programs across intracellular target classes. Its Intracellular enzyme replacement therapy (IC-ERT) is a medical treatment that corrects an enzyme deficiency in the cell, Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Artiva Biotherapeutics

Series B in 2021
Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., a biotech company, develops and manufactures cellular immunotherapies for cancer patients. The company offers a pipeline of off-the-shelf, allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic cancers or solid tumors. The company’s products target CD20 and CD19 in B-cell lymphomas and HER2 in various solid tumors. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Green Cross Holdings Corporation.

Centessa Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2021
Centessa Pharmaceuticals is a next-generation biopharmaceutical company that aims to reshape the traditional drug development process. The company applies an asset-centric R&D model at scale to advance a portfolio of highly validated programs led by industry-leading teams. Each program is developed by a Centessa Subsidiary and supported by a centralized infrastructure and the Centessa management team.

Gemini Therapeutics

Post in 2021
Gemini Therapeutics is a precision medicine company focused on genetically-defined dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and associated rare genetic diseases.Their therapeutic candidates are matched to molecular abnormalities found in patients with high clinical need and our broad multimodal pipeline includes monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and gene therapies. Launched with funding from leading life science investors and powered by academic partnerships around the world,they are developing a series of potentially first-in-class therapeutics.

Design Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Design Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of degenerative disorders caused by nucleotide repeat expansions. The company engages in the development of a program for the treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia and degenerative diseases such as Fragile X syndrome and myotonic dystrophy. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

Verve Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Verve Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for editing the adult human genomes. It utilizes human genetic analysis and gene-editing technology for developing therapies to reduce the risk of coronary artery diseases. The company serves the biotechnology and health care sectors. It has a strategic alliance with Beam Therapeutics for developing delivery technologies against cardiovascular targets; and Verily, for the development of gene editing delivery vehicles. Verve Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Endcadia, Inc. and changed its name to Verve Therapeutics, Inc. in September 2019. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a research facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Scorpion Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops next-generation precision oncology technologies for the treatment of cancer. The company develops precision oncology drugs in three areas, including therapies against known oncogenes; agents for known but currently undruggable cancer targets; and drugs for new targets. Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edgewise Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops small molecule therapies for musculoskeletal diseases. It offers a precision medicine muscle platform that generates programs to address various muscle disorders, such as Duchenne, Becker, and limb girdle muscular dystrophies. The company develops a pipeline of precision medicine product candidates that target key muscle proteins and modulators to address genetically defined muscle disorders. Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

LianBio

Venture Round in 2020
LianBio’s mission is to catalyze the development and accelerate availability of paradigm-shifting medicines to patients in China and major Asian markets through partnerships that provide access to the best science-driven therapeutic discoveries. LianBio collaborates with world-class partners across a diverse array of therapeutic and geographic areas to build out a pipeline based on disease relevance and the ability to impact patients with transformative mechanisms and precision-based therapeutics.

Gracell Biotechnologies

Series C in 2020
Gracell Biotechnologies is a developer of cancer immune therapy designed to treat cancer. The company's therapy offers cellular therapeutics for the patients suffered from hematological malignancy, solid tumor or degenerative disease, enabling healthcare providers to cure their patients and improve their lives.

Nuvation Bio

Post in 2020
Nuvation Bio Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of therapies for oncology. Its portfolio includes various oncology programs with multiple drug development candidates. Nuvation Bio Inc.was formerly known as RePharmation Inc. and changed its name to Nuvation Bio Inc. in April 2019. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Olema Oncology

Series C in 2020
Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for women’s cancers. Its lead program is OP-1250, an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist and a selective ER degrader, which is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic or locally advanced, ER-positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer. The company was formerly known as CombiThera, Inc. and changed its name to Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in March 2009. Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dyne Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Dyne Therapeutics, Inc., a muscle disease company, operates as a biotechnology company that focuses on advancing therapeutics for genetically driven muscle diseases in the United States. It develops various programs for myotonic dystrophy type 1, duchenne muscular dystrophy, and facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, as well as rare skeletal muscle, and cardiac and metabolic muscle diseases using its FORCE platform that delivers disease-modifying therapies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

PMV Pharmaceutcals

Series D in 2020
PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

Olema Oncology

Series B in 2020
Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for women’s cancers. Its lead program is OP-1250, an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist and a selective ER degrader, which is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic or locally advanced, ER-positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer. The company was formerly known as CombiThera, Inc. and changed its name to Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in March 2009. Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Freeline

Series C in 2020
Freeline Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops liver directed gene therapies for bleeding disorders and other diseases. Its therapies are based on next-generation proprietary AAV vector platform, with its lead program being a gene therapy to treat haemophilia B.

Verve Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Verve Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for editing the adult human genomes. It utilizes human genetic analysis and gene-editing technology for developing therapies to reduce the risk of coronary artery diseases. The company serves the biotechnology and health care sectors. It has a strategic alliance with Beam Therapeutics for developing delivery technologies against cardiovascular targets; and Verily, for the development of gene editing delivery vehicles. Verve Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Endcadia, Inc. and changed its name to Verve Therapeutics, Inc. in September 2019. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a research facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kymera Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Kymera Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing novel small molecule therapeutics that selectively degrade disease-causing proteins by harnessing the body’s own natural protein degradation system. It engages in developing IRAK4 program for the treatment of immunology-inflammation diseases, including hidradenitis suppurativa, atopic dermatitis, and rheumatoid arthritis; IRAKIMiD program to treat MYD88-mutated diffuse large B cell lymphoma; and STAT3 program for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, as well as autoimmune diseases. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Generation Bio

Series C in 2020
Generation Bio Co., a genetic medicines company, develops gene therapies for the treatment of rare and prevalent diseases. The company is developing a portfolio of programs for rare and prevalent diseases of the liver and retina. It also focuses on the diseases of skeletal muscle, central nervous system, and oncology. The company was formerly known as Torus Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Generation Bio Co. in November 2017. Generation Bio Co. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Aligos Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that was founded in 2018 with the mission to become a world leader in the treatment of viral infections and liver diseases. Aligos is focused on the development of targeted antiviral therapies for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and coronaviruses as well as leveraging its expertise in liver diseases to create targeted therapeutics for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Aligos’ strategy is to harness the deep expertise and decades of drug development experience its workforce has in liver disease, particularly viral hepatitis, to rapidly advance its pipeline of potentially best-in-class molecules.

FORMA Therapeutics

Series D in 2019
Forma Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for treatment of rare hematologic diseases and cancers. Its core product candidates for development include FT-4202, which is Phase 1 trial for the treatment of sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies; and FT-7051 for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The company is also developing FT-2102, an oral selective small molecule investigational agent that is designed to bind to and inhibit mutated IDH1 enzymes, which is being evaluated in a Phase 2 trial for relapsed/refractory AML, as well as an exploratory Phase 1 trial for glioma; and FT-4101 and FT-8225, which are selective fatty acid synthase inhibitors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc., a precision oncology medicine company, discovers and develops small molecule, tumor-agnostic therapies. Its lead product candidate is BDTX-189, an inhibitor of non-canonical and oncogenic mutations of ErbB kinases epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and tyrosine-protein kinase. The company is also developing allosteric-EGFR mutation inhibitors; and various early stage pipeline programs targeting allosteric mutations in kinases related to cancer and/or rare genetic diseases. The company was formerly known as ASET Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. in January 2018. Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Satsuma Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2019
Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops a novel therapeutic product for the acute treatment of migraine. Its lead product candidate is STS101, a drug-device combination of a proprietary dry-powder formulation of dihydroergotamine mesylate, which is in Phase III clinical trials and can be self-administered with a proprietary pre-filled, single-use, and nasal delivery device. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Neon Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Neon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It is focused in the field of neoantigen-targeted therapies, dedicated to transforming the treatment of cancer by directing the immune system towards neoantigens. The company's pipeline products are NEO-PV-01, NEO-PTC-01, and NEO-SV-01.

Nightstar Therapeutics

Series C in 2017
NightstaRx Ltd. is a U.K. startup company. Gene therapy is the use of a gene to treat disease. The approach could enable treatments for a several rare conditions caused by mutations in a single gene.

Neon Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Neon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It is focused in the field of neoantigen-targeted therapies, dedicated to transforming the treatment of cancer by directing the immune system towards neoantigens. The company's pipeline products are NEO-PV-01, NEO-PTC-01, and NEO-SV-01.

Mersana Therapeutics

Series C in 2016
Mersana Therapeutics employs its biodegradable polymer platform to create new and better medicines. They are advancing their own clinical-stage pipeline of novel compounds with the potential to address multiple oncology indications. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CytomX Therapeutics

Series D in 2015
CytomX Therapeutics is an early stage, privately-funded biotechnology company developing Probodiesâ„¢, proteolytically-activated antibodies. Probodies, by their ability to site-direct the activity of antibodies, will result in an improved therapeutic index for validated targets as well enable the drugging of targets with broad tissue expression. Their mission, alone and with the help of partners, is to provide patients with more effective and less toxic therapies for severe illnesses such as cancer and inflammatory diseases.

UNUM Therapeutics

Series B in 2015
Unum Therapeutics uses proprietary T-cell engineering technology in combination with tumor-targeting antibodies to activate the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. Unum’s lead program, based on its Antibody-Coupled T-cell Receptor (ACTR) technology, is expected to enter Phase I clinical testing in the coming months to assess safety and efficacy. Unum is seeking partners interested in using the ACTR technology to arm proprietary tumor-specific antibodies with a T-cell to improve their therapeutic potential. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Jounce Therapeutics

Series B in 2015
Jounce Therapeutics is dedicated to transforming the treatment of cancer. The company is discovering and developing first-in-class cancer immunotherapies designed to harness the immune system to seek out and attack cancerous cells and tumors. Jounce’s proprietary product engine is driving this transformational approach, which has the potential to drive significantly more durable responses to treatment, extending and improving patients’ quality of life. Founded by world leaders in immunobiology, cancer biology and clinical and translational medicine, Jounce Therapeutics was launched in 2013 with funding from leading life sciences investor, Third Rock Ventures.

Voyager Therapeutics

Series B in 2015
Voyager Therapeutics is a gene therapy company developing life-changing treatments for fatal and debilitating diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Voyager is committed to advancing the field of AAV (adeno-associated virus) gene therapy through innovation and investment in vector optimization and engineering, dosing techniques, as well as process development and production. The company’s initial pipeline is focused on CNS diseases in dire need of effective new therapies, including Parkinson’s disease, a monogenic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Friedreich’s ataxia. Founded by scientific and clinical leaders in the fields of AAV gene therapy, expressed RNA interference and neuroscience, Voyager Therapeutics was launched in 2014 with funding from leading life sciences investor Third Rock Ventures and is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.

Global Blood Therapeutics

Series B in 2015
GBT is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on discovering, developing, and delivering innovative treatments that provide hope to underserved patient communities. GBT is developing its product candidate, voxelotor, as an oral, once-daily therapy for sickle cell disease. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Moderna

Series E in 2015
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.

Nivalis Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2014
Nivalis Therapeutics is developing a novel class of disease-modifying therapies that are designed to preserve intracellular GSNO (S-nitrosoglutathione), an endogenous molecule with cell signaling effects that are implicated in the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis (CF).The Company’s lead candidate, N91115 initially targets patients with the F508del mutation, the most common disease-causing mutation in CF. Nivalis Therapeutics is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of patients with cystic fibrosis and their families. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Blueprint Medicines

Series C in 2014
Blueprint Medicines is driving the development of personalized, highly-selective cancer therapies that harness the growing understanding of the molecular blueprint of cancer. Using its powerful Insights-to-Validation Platform and proprietary chemical library, Blueprint Medicines is working to develop new therapeutic compounds and combination therapies that target the molecular aberrations that cause cancer and the emerging resistance mechanisms that make it increasingly difficult to treat. Founded in 2011 by a proven team of scientists and entrepreneurs with world-renowned expertise in the development of targeted cancer therapies, cancer genomics, and rational drug development, Blueprint Medicines is poised to realize the promise of the cancer data revolution: truly personalized therapies that improve outcomes and shift cancer to a manageable condition.

Adaptimmune

Series A in 2014
Adaptimmune develops T cell therapies to treat cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, and infectious diseases. It utilizes the T cell to target and destroys cancerous or infected cells by using affinity T cell receptor proteins as a means of strengthening patient T cell responses. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Civitas Therapeutics

Series C in 2014
Civitas Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing pulmonary delivery therapies. The Company develops therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system and respiratory disorders. It serves patients throughout the United States.

Spark Therapeutics

Series B in 2014
Spark Therapeutics is developing potentially curative, one-time gene therapy products to transform the lives of patients and re-imagine the treatment of debilitating diseases. The founding team includes scientists who have led the advancement of gene therapy over the past two decades, establishing human proof of concept of the expression of gene therapy in the eye and liver. Spark’s robust pipeline includes SPK-RPE65, a fully enrolled, pivotal Phase 3 program in blindness due to mutations in the RPE65 gene, SPK-CHM for the treatment of choroideremia, and SPK-FIX, a program for the potential treatment of hemophilia B through a global collaboration with Pfizer Inc., as well as preclinical programs to address neurodegenerative diseases and other retinal degenerative diseases and hematologic disorders. Spark has rights to a proprietary manufacturing platform that has a track record supporting clinical studies across diverse therapeutic areas and routes of administration. Spark’s expertise across research, clinical, regulatory and manufacturing builds on a legacy of innovation and excellence in gene therapy established by Spark’s team while at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics.