Leonard M. C. Firestone

IDDS is a specialty pharmaceutical company that applies innovative proprietary technologies to develop new drugs and improved formulations of existing drugs that target current unmet and underserved medical need in the pain management market. IDDS’s product candidates address the market segment for prescription medications focused on treating acute and episodic moderate-to-severe pain associated with breakthrough cancer pain, post operative pain, orthopedic injury, procedural pain, burn pain and trauma. The product candidates offer enhanced pain relief, fewer adverse side effects and faster relief of pain compared to other currently available treatments.

Acuvax Ltd. is engaged in the research and development of cancer therapies and virus and vaccine development in Australia and North America. It is in process of acquiring Biolife Science Ltd, which is developing a vaccine for breast and gastric cancers. The company is headquartered in West Perth, Australia.

Hawaii Biotech, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of vaccines for established and emerging infectious diseases. It has developed proprietary expertise in the production of recombinant proteins applicable to the development of safe and effective vaccines. The firm's products include anti-toxin drugs for the lethal factor from B. anthracis and the botulinum toxin from C. botulinum. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Honolulu, HI.