Shahram Hejazi

Centocor, Inc. manufactures healthcare products. Its products include avakine & reopro. The company was founded in 1979 by Hubert J. P. Schoemaker & Michael A. Wall and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

Cephalon, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. It engages in the discovery and development of medicines for central nervous system disorders, pain, and cancer. The company was founded on August 24, 1987 by Frank Baldino, Jr. and is headquartered in Frazer, PA.

IVAX LLC discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets generic pharmaceuticals, respiratory drugs, and cancer treatments. It offers drugs for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, brain cancer, asthma, and epilepsy. The company was founded by Phillip Frost and Jane H. Hsiao in 1987 and is headquartered in Weston, FL.

Quidel Corp. engages in the development, manufacture and market of rapid diagnostic testing solutions. Its portfolio includes rapid immunoassays, cardiac immunoassays, specialized diagnostic solutions and molecular diagnostic solutions. The firm products are directly sold to end users and distributors and for professional use in physician offices, hospitals, clinical laboratories, reference laboratories, urgent care clinics, universities, retail clinics, pharmacies and wellness screening centers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Proterion Corp. designs, manufactures, markets, and services computer-controlled life sciences instrumentation for particle sizing and biomolecular characterization of protein molecules. The company's products, most of which are proprietary or patented, consist of spectrometers and light scattering laboratory instruments used for research and product development. Proterion was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ.

NitroMed, Inc. develops and supplies pharmaceuticals. It offers BiDil, an orally administered medicine for the treatment of heart failure. The firm also develops products for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals LLC develops pharmaceutical, biotechnology and vaccine technologies. The company was registered on May 5, 2003 and is headquartered in Collegeville, PA.

Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc. develops treatments for smoking cessation, cocaine dependence and other addictions. The company was founded by Nicholas Edward Goeders and Marie A. Lindner in 2005 and is headquartered in Sudbury, MA.

Jenrin Discovery, Inc. develops therapeutics for chronic diseases. It provides therapeutics for various diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The company was founded by John F. McLeroy on April 17, 2007 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Anchor Therapeutics, Inc. designs and develops peptide modulators of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The firm engages in developing and licensing pepducin technology as a research tool for drug development; and pepducin drug candidates and novel molecules that are intended for targeting GPCR to allosterically modulate GPCR signaling. Its pepducin lipopeptides are designed to allosterically modulate internal cell signaling via specific interactions with intracellular GPCR domains. The company also focuses on developing its pepducin technology for creating new treatment options for regenerative medicine, diabetes, inflammation, and cancer. Anchor Therapeutics was founded by Thomas J. McMurry and Athan Kuliopulos in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

NuGenesis Technologies Corp. provides scientific data management solutions.The firm offers software for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries. The company was founded by Ajit S. Nagral in 1996 and is located in Westborough, MA.

Robin Hood Ventures (RHV) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Rob weber. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Angels' Forum Management Co LLC (The Angels' Forum) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Carol Sands, Craig Sirnio and Alejandro Estrada. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

deVGen NV provides biotechnology services for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. It innovates in crop protection research and environment induced stress tolerance for its own crops and provides technology to corporate partners. The firm produces and sells its hybrid seeds in field crops such as rice, sunflower, sorghum and pearl millet in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The company was founded by Thierry Bogaert on September 10, 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Guava Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes cytometry systems for cellular analyses. Its products include Guava Personal Cell Analysis systems, Guava PCA, Guava PCA-96, and Guava EasyCyte systems. The company was founded by Goix J. Philippe in 1998 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corp. provides novel protein and peptide drugs with pharmacology and trans-bodies to replace conventional monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded by Christopher P. Prior, Andrew Turner and David R. King in 2002 and is headquartered in Rosemont, PA.

Therakos, Inc. develops immune cell therapies delivered through extracorporeal photopheresis. The firm’s engineers, clinicians and biological researchers have been driven to discover new technologies and therapeutic applications that empower the immune response and improve patient outcomes. It supports clinicians by providing products and training to enhance the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) and by pursuing additional approved indications for autologous immune cell therapy. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

Part of Bayer AG, Miles Laboratories, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Rexdale, Canada.

The Franklin Institute is a non-profit organization that provides science and technology learning services. The company was founded by Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Keating in Feb 5, 1984 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Marillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides cancer pharmaceuticals. It focuses on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancers and for care in oncology. The firm products include Lu-AMBA, Pilobuc, and MN-201. The company was founded by Jerry Glickson, Zahed Subhan, and Gang Zheng in February 2005 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

LiteCure LLC manufactures and distributes medical devices. Its products include LightForce EX, LightForce Pro, LCT-1000, Compass and Empower DS. The firm is a registered manufacturer providing FDA cleared products for a variety of medical applications. The company was founded by Brian A. Pryor and Sean X. Wang in October 2007 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.

PhenoTech, Inc. develops and markets monoclonal antibodies which are used in blood diagnostic and therapeutic applications. It offers blood diagnostic reagents, such as nanoscale emissive antibody-complexes for typing reagents for pre-transfusion testing. The company was founded by Eric Ostertag in 2003 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Broadview Ventures, Inc. (Broadview Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Treventis Corp. develops a small molecule drugs for Alzheimer's and other protein misfolding diseases. It developed a proprietary discovery platform, a high-resolution three-dimensional model of the common conformational region, enabling rational design of multiple lead compounds. The company was founded by Christopher J. Barden, Donald F. Weaver and Sultan Darvesh in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Mebias Discovery, LLC engages in discovering drugs. The company was founded by Lawrence C. Kuo, Brett A. Tounge and Shariff S. Bayoumy in January 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.