Mike M. Goldberg

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. is a commercial stage specialty pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of new formulations of existing products and chemical entities, using Eligen Technology. Its product pipelines include eligen B12, eligen12.com, eligen B12 information, and purchase eligen B12. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Roseland, NJ.

Alliqua, Inc. is a biomedical products company focused on the development and manufacturing of proprietary technologies in the fields of drug delivery, advanced wound care and liver health preservation. It intends to develop active ingredient and transdermal drug delivery products, primarily utilizing the proprietary hydrogel technology platform manufactured by its subsidiary AquaMed Technologies, Inc. The firm develops HepaMate, an extracorporeal cell-based bioartificial liver system designed to combine blood detoxification with liver cell therapy to provide whole liver function in patients with the most severe forms of liver failure. Its HepaMate is comprised of a blood plasma separation cartridge, a hollow-fiber bioreactor filled with proprietary porcine liver cells, a charcoal column, an oxygenator, circuit tubing and a plasma reservoir. The company was founded on October 21, 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY. It changed its name from HepaLife Technologies, Inc. in January 2011.

Mast Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in developing novel therapies for serious or life-threatening diseases with significant unmet needs. It leveraging Molecular Adhesion and Sealant Technology, platform, derived from over two decades of clinical, nonclinical, and manufacturing experience with purified and non-purified poloxamers to develop vepoloxamer, which also known as MST-188. The company was founded by Warren C. Lau in December 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston, ThinkEquity Partners is a broker/dealer. The firm offers targeted research and investment banking services for institutional investors and corporate clients. They specialize in identifying, analyzing and understanding the technological, macroeconomic and cultural trends that impact key growth verticals, with a particular concentration on healthcare, technology, media/education and business/consumer services. The firm starts with a top-down analysis approach and then allocates resources based on a long-range research roadmap.

CorNova, Inc. develops medical devices. It product, FiberHalo SRM Stent Deployment Catheter, enables the physician to deploy a stent and measure in-stent lumen area during the angioplasty procedure. The company was founded by S. Eric Ryan in 2003 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Urigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company which focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative products for urology indications. It is specialized in the design and implementation of products for patients with urological ailments, including products for amelioration of bladder pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis. The company was founded in March 1999 and is headquartered in North Brunswick, NJ.

Echo Therapeutics, Inc. is a medical device company, which engages in the development of non-invasive, and wireless continuous glucose monitoring system for use in the diabetes outpatient market. It offers needle-free skin preparation device as a platform technology that allows for enhanced skin permeation enabling extraction of analytes, such as glucose and delivery of topical pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Iselin, NJ.