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Carmell Regen Med Corp. develops biomaterials manufactured from blood plasma. It offers biologically-active plastics from blood plasma for treating injuries to bone and connective tissue. The firm focuses on products for the sports medicine market with devices for the repair of tendon and cartilage injuries. It provides REPAIR Bone Putty, a putty form of the plasma-based plastics to fill bone defects; and surgical scaffold for soft tissue repair that heals injured tendons and ligaments. The company was founded by James Edward Burgess, Phil Campbell, and Lee E. Weiss in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

AIONX Antimicrobial Technologies, Inc. develops antimicrobial technology that controls the release of silver and copper ions. It specializes in product integration and microbial burden reduction. The company was founded by Thomas A. Fuller and is headquartered in Hershey, PA.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cardiva Medical, Inc. designs and develops vascular access management products. It offers VASCADE, an extravascular closure device designed to increase the comfort and safety of vascular closure for patients; and Catalyst, a device that supports the body's natural healing process by enhancing the vessel's inherent natural elastic recoil, tissue apposition and coagulation. The company was founded by Zia Yassinzadeh and Augustine Y. Lien in July 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Cardinal Health, Inc., Cordis Cardiology engages in development and manufacturing of interventional cardiovascular and endovascular technologies. The company is based in Miami Lakes, FL. The CEO of the company is Shar Matin.

Vasca, Inc. develops access and related technologies. It manufactures and markets life site hemodialysis access system technologies to improve the quality of patient care in the United States. The company was founded by Jeffrey H. Burbank in April 1996 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.

Neuraptive Therapeutics, Inc. engages in developing therapeutic technology for the acute surgical repair of injured peripheral nerves. Its products include AxoFuse, AxoTrim, and AxoBond. The company was founded by David Jackson in 2016 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Co.

Liquidia Technologies, Inc. is a clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of human therapeutics using its proprietary PRINT technology to transform the lives of patients. It operates in two segments: Pharmaceutical Products and Partnering & Licensing. The two product candidates from its pipeline: LIQ861 for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and LIQ865 for the treatment of local post-operative pain. Liquidia Technologies was founded by Joseph M. DeSimone, Ashok K. Mendiratta, Edward T. Samulski, William R. Kenan, Ginger Denison and Jason Rolland in 2004 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Part of Johnson & Johnson, Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. provides home and health care services. The company is based in New Brunswick, NJ and was founded in 1886.

Safaba Translation Solutions, Inc. provides enterprise machine translation solutions to enterprises. Its products include EMTGlobal, source language transformation module, language optimization engine, target language transformation module, language translation engine, and translation application programming interface. The company was founded by Alon Lavie and Robert Olszewski on June 26, 2009 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Plextronics, Inc. develops and delivers active layer technology for printed electronic devices. The company was founded on October 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Pittsburgh Technology Council is an organization that helps tech companies succeed through business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. The council is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and was founded by William R. Newlin. Companies at all growth stages use the council to build new business, connect to capital, grow a workforce, and make headlines. The council sponsors various events, including the Summer Slam and TechFest, where software development professionals from southwestern and surrounding areas convene to explore and elevate through professional development.

Etcetera Edutainment, Inc. operates as a designer and developer of video games for game-based learning. The company was founded by Jessica Trybus and Donald Marinelli in 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Green House (PLSG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Liquid X Printed Metals, Inc. manufactures functional metallic inks. Its products include medical devices, energy, OFET, transparent conductors, OLED displays, printed circuit boards, and printed electrodes. The company was founded by Richard D. McCullough and John Belot in January 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Sharp Edge Labs, Inc. develops biosensors to the cellular biology research community. It operates as a assay development company that offers products and services for drug discovery. The firm offers fluorogenic activating protein, which provides accurate and detailed detection method for cellular changes that is amendable to high-throughput screening and detailed follow-up. The company was founded by Alan S. Waggoner and Marcel P. Bruchez in 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

PEAK Surgical is a medical device company that has developed the PEAK Surgery System, a new tissue dissection system based on a proprietary technology that represents an important advance in radiofrequency surgical technologies. The PEAK Surgery System consists of the PEAK PlasmaBlade, a family of disposable cutting devices that offer the exacting control of a scalpel and the bleeding control of traditional electrosurgery without extensive collateral damage, and the PULSAR Generator, which supplies pulsed plasma radiofrequency energy to the PlasmaBlade. The PEAK Surgery System is cleared for use in general, plastic and reconstructive, ENT, gynecologic, orthopedic, arthroscopic, spinal and neurological surgical procedures in the United States, and for use in general surgery in the European Union. It was launched in the United States in July 2008 and has been used by U.S. surgeons on many patients, including general, gynecologic, orthopedic and plastic and reconstructive surgeries

Plano Molding Co., Inc. designs and manufactures storage systems and organizers for indoor and outdoor applications. The firm offers products such as gun cases, field boxes, and related holders and bags, tackle box systems, toolboxes and organizers, craft storage, shelving and cabinets. It also provides caboodles storage products. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Plano, IL.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC provides legal services. The firm offers services in the areas of commercial litigation, taxation, government relations, family law, labor and employment law, European law and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Newlin Investment Co. LLC (Newlin Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by William R. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

SpIntellx, Inc. operates as a computational pathology company. It applies its proprietary artificial intelligence technologies to analyze whole slide image pathology samples based on spatial analytics. The company was founded by D. Lansing Taylor, S. Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey L. Fine and Michael J. Becich and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.