Diane C. Oates

Chiron Corp. provides nucleic acid test for blood screening. Its products include tigris system, target capture system, reagent preparation incubator, and many more. The company was founded in 1981 by William J. Rutter, Edward E. Penhoet & Pablo Valenzuela and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

ABAXIS, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of portable blood analysis systems. It operates through the following segments: Medical Market, Veterinary Market, and Other. The Medical Market segment serves a customer group consisting of physicians’ office practices across multiple specialties, urgent care, outpatient and walk-in clinics, health screening operations, home care providers, nursing homes, ambulance companies, oncology treatment clinics, dialysis centers, pharmacies, hospital laboratories, military installations, pharmaceutical clinical trials, and cruise ship lines. The Veterinary Market segment focuses on animal hospitals, animal clinics with mixed practices of small animals, birds and reptiles, equine and bovine practitioners, veterinary emergency clinics, veterinary referral hospitals, universities, government, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and private research laboratories. The company was founded by Vladimir E. Ostoich in April 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, CA.

Applied Imaging Corp. designs and markets automated clinical analysis systems used by cytogenetic laboratories. It also supplies automated imaging systems, which are utilized in genetics and pathology laboratories for the detection & analysis of chromosomes in cancer and prenatal disorders. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA