Frances K. Heller

Zyomyx, Inc. manufactured point-of-care diagnostic devices based on cell-counting technology. It engaged in the development and commercialization of diagnostic platforms. The firm offered disposable CD4 T-cell, a point-of-care test for HIV and AIDS treatment. The company was founded by Peter Wagner, Steffen Nock, Christian Itin, and Dana Ault-Riche in 1998 and was headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. provides treatment to cancer patients and also researches new cancer diagnostics, treatments, and preventions. The firm's patients receive treatment through its cancer centers operated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The company was founded by Sidney Farber in 1947 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Signature BioScience, Inc. discovers new drugs by applying its parallel target and compound selection process. The private company is based in Hayward, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Andrew Peter Sandham and John Hefti.

Celera Group provides molecular diagnostics using proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery platforms to identify and validate novel diagnostic markers and to develop diagnostic products based on these markers. These diagnostic products are used to predict disease risk and optimize therapy selection, monitoring and patient outcome. The company was founded in May, 1998 and is located in Rockville, MD

Adimab LLC provides human therapeutic antibodies. The firm has discovered antibodies for a wide variety of therapeutic targets within many disease areas, including oncology, immunomodulation, inflammation, neuroscience and pain, cardiovascular and metabolic disease and infectious disease. The company was founded in 2007 by Tillman Gerngross, Dane Wittrup and Errik Anderson and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

NeuroTherapeutics Pharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for diseases associated with central nervous system hyper-excitability. It is developing compounds that decrease or eliminate aberrant excitatory discharges by working through a new mechanism of action. The firm's proprietary molecules target a novel molecular site that will create a pipeline of potential new treatments for multiple CNS disorders. The company's lead compound, NTP-2014, has exhibited excellent efficacy results in multiple preclinical models of epilepsy, acute and neuropathic pain. NeuroTherapeutics Pharma was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.