Aimee Smart

Biohealth Innovation, Inc. sources and evaluates market-relevant bioheath intellectual properties, connects the IP with funding, and assists businesses in marketing and growth. It is a regional innovation intermediary that accelerates and facilitates technology transfer and commercialization of market-relevant research in federal labs, universities, and biohealth companies in the Region. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Lung Biotechnology PBC develops pharmaceutical products. It specializes in clinical trials, lung perfusion, and XenoLung. The company was founded by Martine Rothblatt and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.

Cato Research LLC operates as an international regulatory and clinical contract research organization. It offers clinical strategy, clinical trial services, data management and biostatistics, medical and pharmacovigilance, medical writing, pharmacokinetics, preclinical/nonclinical services, project management, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. The company was founded by Allen Cato and Lynda Sutton in 1988 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Nabi Biopharmaceuticals develops and manufactures biopharmaceutical products. It focuses on the development of vaccines addressing unmet medical needs, including gram-positive bacterial infections and nicotine addiction. The Nicotine Addiction area develops NicVAX, which is an innovative and proprietary investigational vaccine for the treatment of nicotine addiction and prevention of smoking relapse based on patented technology. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

VIRxSYS Corp. is a holding company, which uses its proprietary platform technologies to develop therapies for serious human diseases. Its platform technologies include lentiviral vectors as a delivery vehicle for genes against certain diseases and for vaccine therapies. Its therapies are in various stages of development from pre-clinical through Phase II clinical trials. The company was founded by Boro Dropulic, William J. Turner, and Wiliam N. Sick Jr in 1998 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.