Russell K. Enns

CEPHEID develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems that perform genetic analysis. The firm's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The company was founded by Thomas L. Gutshall, William McMillan, Kurt Petersen, Greg Kovacs and M. Allen Northrup on March 4, 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute is a non profit organization which develops clinical and laboratory practices and promoting their use worldwide. it offers education, membership, and specialty areas which include general laboratory, newborn screening, clinical chemistry and toxicology, hematology, and quality management systems. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Abbott Molecular, Inc. manufactures pharmaceuticals and medical products. Its products include genetics and genomics and oncology. The company was founded by Thomas J. Mozer and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Microprobe Corp. is an American company that specializes in commercial medical research.

Gen-Probe, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets rapid, accurate and molecular diagnostic products and services that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases, screen donated human blood, and ensure transplant compatibility. It also develops and manufactures the PROCLEIX assays, which are used to detect human immunodeficiency virus, the hepatitis C virus, the hepatitis B virus, and the West Nile virus in donated human blood. The firm's clinical diagnostics products include APTIMA family of assays, which are used to detect the common STDs chlamydia and gonorrhea. Gen-Probe was founded by Thomas H. Adams and David E. Kohne in 1983 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Part of Grifols SA/Grifols Family/, Alpha Therapeutic Corp. develops plasma derived products. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA.