Dan Hartman

deCODE genetics, Inc. is a bio-pharmaceutical company. It developing and marketing products to improve the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of common diseases. deCODE applies its capabilities in chemistry and structural biology to the development of drugs in major therapeutic areas, and applies its discoveries in human genetics to bring to market DNA-based reference laboratory tests and consumer genome analysis services to assess individual risk of common diseases. The company was founded by Kari Stefansson and Jeffrey Gulcher in August 1996 and is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

EnBiotix, Inc. operates as a late clinical-stage respiratory therapeutics company, which engages in deploying novel systems and synthetic biology technologies. It offers anti-persisters, engineered bacteriophage, tunable target degradation, and systems biology platform. Its pipeline includes ColiFin, EBX-001, EBX-002, and Linear Peptide Antibiotics. The company was founded by James J. Collins in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Certara, Inc., Great Lakes Drug Development, Inc. is a company that develops software applications for drug development consultancy services. The company is based in Brighton, MI. Great Lakes Drug Development was acquired by Certara USA, Inc. on August 13, 2013.

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences studies translation on a system-wide level as a scientific and operational problem. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.