Robert Yang

Part of International Business Machines Corp., Wilkerson Group is a consulting company that provides services to the pharmaceutical and medical products industry. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Kenneth D. Noonan. The CEO is Neil MacAllister. Wilkerson Group was acquired by International Business Machines Corp. on April 01, 1996.

Marker Cell Therapy, Inc. develops clinical stage immuno-oncology therapies. The company is headquartered in New Brighton, MN.

Earlens Corp. develops medical devices. It offers EarLens Contact Hearing Device that uses light to transmit sound. Its earlens contact hearing device two components: a tympanic membrane transducer, which is nonsurgically placed deep in the ear canal on the eardrum, and a light-based behind-the-ear sound processor placed at the base of the ear canal. The company was founded in 1999 by Rodney C. Perkins and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Oculex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and develops drugs. The company focuses on developing and manufacturing novel drug delivery systems that resolve the problems associated with treatment of inflammation following cataract surgery and diseases of the eye. It is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops methods for modifying recombinantly produced enzymes. It develops a series of novel protein engineering technologies that have been shown in pre-clinical studies to greatly enhance the targeting and uptake of replacement enzymes. Novazyme's technologies also have application for developing advanced monoclonal antibodies and gene therapies. The company is located in Oklahoma City, OK.

Archimica Cooperatief UA was engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. It offered development and commercialization of pharmaceutical intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and other controlled substances. The company was headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Advion, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and support mass spectrometers, chip-based ion sources, microfluidic flow chemistry systems, and consumables for life science and related industries. Its products include expression CMS (compact mass spectrometer), Plate Express, SOLATION ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry), Triversa NanoMate, ASAP (atmospheric esolids analysis probe), and Touch Express. The company was founded by Jack D. Henion and Thomas R. Kurz in 1993 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

TRIA Beauty, Inc. provides light based therapeutic beauty devices. It offers TRIA Laser Hair Removal System for laser removal of hair and TRIA Skin Perfecting Blue Light for mild to moderate inflammatory acne with a proprietary cleanser and serum for overall complexion improvement. The company was founded in 2003 by Tobin C. Island, Robert E. Grove, Jonathon T. Pearson and Mark V. Weckwerth and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

Hambrecht & Quist Group, Inc. operates as a holding investment bank and provides securities brokerage services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bioenvision, Inc. engages in the acquisition, development, distribution, and marketing of compounds and technologies for the treatment of cancer. It also develops anti-infective technologies, which includes the OLIGON(R) technology. The company was founded by Christopher B. Wood on August 16, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

NextWave Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical company which focuses on the development and commercialization of products for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The company was founded by Mahendra G. Shah on September 25, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ajax Health II LLC invests in companies located in the United States. The fund target companies operating in the fields of innovative medical device companies. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

The YMCA of Greater Boston, Inc. provides social services. The firm offers youth development, healthy living and social responsibility services. It conducts pre-K, youth, teen, adult., family programs and provides early education care services. The company was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Alpha-9 Theranostics, Inc. operates as a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company. It engages in developing breakthrough targeting agents for cancer imaging by positron emission tomography (PET) and therapy using targeted radioisotopes. The company was founded by Fran?ois B?nard, David Perrin, Kuo-Shyan Lin, and Ian McBeath and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.