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Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Aronex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops proprietary medicines to treat cancer and infectious diseases. The company's products include Nyotran, Atragen, Annamycin, and Zintevir. It is headquartered in The Woodlands, TX.

Ondax, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets holographic optical filters and wavelength-stabilized laser sources. It products include wavelength stabilization gratings, low-frequency spectroscopy systems, wavelength stabilized lazers, ultra-narrowband notch filters and assemblies, ASE filters, beamsplitters and lasers, and pulse stretcher and compressor filters. The company was founded by Christophe Moser, Karsten Buse and Demetri Psaltis in July 2000 and is headquartered in Duarte, CA.

Novartis International AG manages the Novartis Group. It provides administrative, financial, legal, and technical services. It also offers scientific consultation to the Group. The company was founded on December 13, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

NewBiotics, Inc. develops pharmaceutical drugs to treat cancer and infectious disease. It applies its Enzyme Catalyzed Therapeutic Activation technology to develop pharmaceuticals that transform drug resistance into therapeutic advantage. The company was founded by H. Michael Shepard and Geoffrey Myles Wahl in 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nodality, Inc. develops bioinformatics tools to enhance drug development process. Its technology profiles signaling networks in single cells by multiparametric phospho-flow cytometry. The company was founded by Michael C. Needels, Omar D. Perez, Garry P. Nolan and Rodney Weldon Turner in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zyngenia, Inc. developed new class of bio-therapeutics. The company was founded by Joseph L. Amprey III, Carlos F. Barbas III and Peter Alec Kiener in 2008 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Angiocrine Bioscience, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based on its novel and proprietary e-cel® platform. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company is developing multiple e-cel therapies designed to repair damaged tissue from age-related degenerative disease of the musculoskeletal system, immune diseases that attack vessels and tissues, and ischemic diseases involving soft tissue, central nervous system, and the heart. The CEO of the company is Paul W. Finnegan.

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.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

US Food & Drug Administration operates agencies to protect health and human services. It protects and promotes public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, cosmetics, animal foods and feed and veterinary products. The company was founded by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley on 30th June, 1906 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.

American Association for Cancer Research prints and publishes scientific journals including clinical cancer research, molecular cancer therapeutics, molecular cancer research, cancer epidemiology, and biomarkers and prevention. The company was founded on May 7, 1907 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Inc. provides funding for research on myeloma treatment. It provides funding to laboratories worldwide, including compounds and approaches in clinical trials and pre-clinical studies. The firm also facilitates clinical trials through their affiliate organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The company was founded by Karen E. Andrews and Kathryn E. Giusti in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

The International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer operates as a professional society of influential scientists, academicians, researchers, clinicians, and government representatives. The non-profit company is based in Milwaukee, WI.

RESprotect GmbH develops drugs for the treatment of chemotherapeutic disease. It holds interest in the prevention and treatment of chemotherapeutic drug resistance and radiation therapyresistance. The firms offers products for the indication of cancer. The company was founded by Rudolf Fahrig in 2000 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research provides research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. It offers Innovation programs, like cancer stem cell, innovation in target validation, and smarter imaging, Technology programs, like drug discovery, genome technologies, informatics and bio-computing, imaging translation, and tranformative pathology, and Translation programs. The company was founded by Calvin R. Stiller in December 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Refuge Biotechnologies, Inc. develops therapeutic cells. It is leveraging gene engineering technologies known as CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) to develop therapeutic cells that are programmed to make decisions inside the patient’s body. The firms programs include RB-1916, RB-H21 and RB-M1. The company was founded by Stanley Qi, David R. Parkinson and Bing C. Wang and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Pierian Biosciences LLC operates as a diagnostic development and laboratory service company. It offers ChemoINTEL, a functional multi-parametric chemosensitivity assay measuring the real-time kinetic molecular and morphologic apoptotic response in isolated tumor cells; and ImmunoINTEL, a flow cytometry-based platform delivering phenotypic characterization and quantitative functional interrogation of tumor and immune populations within a tumor sample and relevant tissues. The company is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

Pivotal BioSciences, Inc. operates as an early-stage company which engages in the development and commercialization of cancer therapies. Its product pipeline includes PB 101, PB 103 and PB 105. The company was founded by Alan Epstein, Francis S. Markland, Jr. and Dimitri S. Villard in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.