Gordon C. Brandt

Profil Institute for Clinical Research, Inc. operates as a full-service clinical research organization (CRO), that focuses on diabetes, obesity and NAFLD/NASH. It offers clinical development, regulatory affair, clinical research, scientific, data management and statistical, monitoring, quality and compliance, and recruitment services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Chula Vista, CA.

MDRNA, Inc. engages in development and commercialization of innovative products based on proprietary molecular biology-based intranasal drug delivery technology. The company creates or utilizes novel formulation components or excipients that can transiently manipulate or open 'tight junctions' between cells in various tissues and thereby allow therapeutic drugs to reach the blood stream. The company is located in Hauppauge, NY.

Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engaged in the development of drugs for the treatment of cancer and related therapies. Its primary product TOCOSOL Paclitaxel, was an injectable paclitaxel emulsion for nonsmall cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer and bladder cancer. Sonus Pharmaceuticals was incorporated in 1991 and was headquartered in Bothell, WA.