John D. Groat

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

BioTransplant, Inc. is a life science company. The company discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics, therapeutic devices and therapeutic regimens designed to suppress undesired immune responses and enhance the body's ability to accept donor cells, tissues and organs. The company was founded on March 20, 1990 and is headquartered in Charlestown, MA.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Part of Pluristyx, Inc., Implant Therapeutics is a Canadian biotechnology company that develops therapeutic products in the immunology, mesenchymal stem cell, and pancreatic islet space. The company partners with other companies to develop novel products in other areas of regenerative medicine. Under the guidance of Dr. Mahendra Rao, Implant Therapeutics engineers hypoimmunogenic and safe-harbor technologies in ipsc-msc and islets. These cells are an ideal choice for bone, cartilage, and tendon replacement strategies, combining the advantages of allogeneic and autologous cells, as well as allowing them to be used as ex-vivo gene therapy vehicles. The CEO of the company is Mahendra S. Rao.

Part of Pluristyx, Inc., panCELLa, Inc. is a privately held early-stage biotechnology firm based in Toronto, CA. panCELLa was acquired by Pluristyx, Inc. on October 06, 2022. panCELLa has secured partnerships with several biotechnology partners to enhance its patent position and provide expanded access to its exclusive failsafe™ and cloaked cells™/iact cells. The Canadian company continues its internal R & D efforts to develop additional novel uses of its platform technologies in areas such as bio-production, cancer vaccination, and tolerization. The company was founded in 2015 by Armand Keating and Andras Nagy, and has created platforms that allow for the development of safe, universal, cost-effective, “ off-the-shelf ” therapeutic cell products for medicine.

Q Therapeutics, Inc. engages in developing adult stem cell therapies to treat debilitating disease of the central nervous system. Its product, Q-Cells will undergo first-in-human trials for ALS. The firm’s therapeutic strategy is intended to restore the normal activity of neurons by providing the support functions present in healthy central nervous system tissue. The company was founded by Dennis B. Farrar, Mahendra S. Rao, Mani Ramaswami, and Steven Goldman on March 28, 2002 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

National Institutes Of Health conducts & supports peer-reviewed medical research and science. The firm's scientists & researchers investigate on different ways to prevent diseases as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

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.

Q Therapeutic Products, Inc. develops novel products to treat debilitating and fatal diseases. The company was founded by Dennis B. Farrar and Mahendra S. Rao in 2004 and is headquartered in Salt Lake, UT.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) is a research institute located in Bangalore, IN. The Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS) is a non-profit research institute that aspires to develop solutions to challenges in human health and agriculture using applications of cutting-edge science and technology in genetics and genomics. The NCBS conducts research on various topics such as the assembly of mixed and branched heterotypic ubiquitin chains, evolution, and dopamine-neuropeptide axis maintenance in Drosophila. The institute has also been involved in tracking COVID and dengue through sewage surveillance. The institute is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and is dedicated to the study of stem cell and regenerative biology. The center for cellular and molecular platforms (C-CAMP) is an initiative of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, with a mandate to be an enabler of cutting-edge life science research and innovation.

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.

ThermoGenesis Corp. engages in the provision of medical laboratories services. The company is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, CA.

StrionAir, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets air filtration systems. It also manufactures and markets patented, breakthrough air-filtration technology that renders existing air-filtration solutions technically inferior. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.