Shirley Liu Clayton

REGiMMUNE Corp. develops solutions for treating immune disorders. Its focus is on the discovery, development, and commercialization of immune regulatory therapeutics to treat life-threatening and debilitating conditions, including allergies, autoimmune diseases and transplantation. The firm's platform technology, reVax, induces immune tolerance in an antigen-specific manner through pharmacological induction of regulatory T (Treg) cells. It also develops products for preventing inhibitor formation in enzyme replacement therapies (ERT) and for celiac disease with undisclosed partners. The company was founded by Yasuyuki Ishii on March 3, 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company. The company, through its subsidiaries MetroBank NA and Metro United Bank, provides commercial banking products and services including, personal banking, savings account information, mortgage lending, commercial loans and cash management services. It offers commercial and industrial loans to wholesalers, manufacturers and business service companies, commercial mortgage loans to finance the purchase of real property; construction loans to finance the construction of residential and non-residential properties and government guaranteed small business lending products and services. The company provides trade finance and letters of credit for export and import transactions of small and medium-sized businesses, residential mortgage brokerage and lending and retail banking products and services. MetroCorp Bancshares was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Abmaxis Inc. develops pharmaceutical drugs. The company discovers and optimizes monoclonal antibody (mAb) products for human therapeutics and diagnostics. It has developed antibody engineering technology platform, Abmaxis in-silico Immunization (AISIM TM), which they are used for building an internal product pipeline and collaboration with global biotech and pharmaceutical partners. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Trellis Bioscience, Inc. is discovers and develops novel human antibody therapeutics. It provides the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies from human B cells. The firm develops the CellSpot antibody discovery platform, which enables the identification of antibodies directly from human blood. The company was founded by Lawrence Kauvar and Stote Ellsworth in 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

A-CUBE, Inc. develops novel antibodies. It utilizes silico algorithms and to discover novel druggable targets suitable for developing human therapeutic interventions, including next generation drugs for commercially proven targets. The company was founded by Nobuyuki Ota is headquartered in Belmont, CA.

Cygnus, Inc. develops and manufactures glucose-monitoring devices. The company develops devices that provide data to individuals and physicians to enable them to manage diabetes. It was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.