Patrick Cooke

Qiagen Beverly, Inc. produces reagents, kits and assays enables customers worldwide to transform patient treatment and life science research. Its products include xmal, mapl, taqiT, wgs ligase, sall, xhol and bamhi. The company was founded by Christopher Benoit and Stephen Picone in 2006 and is headquartered in Beverly, M A.

HandyLab, Inc. develops and manufactures novel clinical diagnostic testing products. It serves medical, industrial and bio-defense markets. The company was founded by Kalyan Handique and Sundaresh Brahmasandra in 2000 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MI.

Accuri Cytometers, Inc. develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers. It operates as a life sciences company which develops and markets high performance cell analysis systems designed to bring the power of flow cytometry into life science and biomedical laboratories. The firm offers C6 Flow Cytometer, a bench-top cell and bead analysis system used in various applications, such as immunophenotyping, bacteria analysis, cell cycle analysis, proliferation assays, apoptosis, DNA analysis, target multiplexing, gene expression, lineage analysis, viability, absolute cell counts, intracellular cytokines, membrane potential, yeast and algae analysis, and phagocytosis. The company was founded by Jennifer A. Baird and Collin A. Rich in 2004 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Cernostics, Inc. develops and commercializes cancer diagnostic tests. Its technology is based on a systems approach to evaluating tissues via anatomic pathology and simultaneously evaluates immune, stromal, stem cell and tumor biomarkers on a single slide while preserving tissue structure. The company was founded in 2008 by Michel Nederlof and Rebecca Critchley-Thorne and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

ViroCyt, Inc. develops life science instrumentation and assays products for the analysis of viruses and microorganisms. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

The Budd Co. designs and manufactures automotive components. Its products include sheet metal stamping and assemblies, chassis modules and frame assemblies and components, sheet molding composites, auto body panels, pickup boxes, bumpers and bumper reinforcements, prototypes, and aluminum castings. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles provides healthcare services. The organizationspecializes in providing services to seriously injured and sick children. Its services include surgical & emergency care, speciality services and many more. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was founded in April 1901 and is located in Los Angeles, CA.

Phoenix Children's Hospital provides health care services. Its pediatric specialty includes adolescent medicine, allergy and immunology, anesthesiology, bone marrow transplantation, critical care, dermatology, developmental pediatrics and emergency medicine. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Orchard Venture Partners (Orchard Venture Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of Orchard Capital Management LLC founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Illinois.

Plymouth Management Co. (Plymouth Growth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Weathershield Illinois LLC provides cleaning services for new housing and existing commercial buildings. It provides services to facility and maintenance managers, property owners and contractors. Its services includes joint sealing and caulking, tuck pointing and masonry, pedestrian and traffic coatings, painting and specialty coatings, faced cleaning and sealing, and leak investigations and solutions. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Rochester Hills, MI.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Decipher Biosciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage precision oncology company which engages in patient care improvement. The Company?s differentiated approach measures the biological activity of a patient?s entire tumor genome, known as whole transcriptome analysis, and applies proprietary machine learning algorithms to improve therapy selection and accelerate adoption of new therapies into the standard of care. Its novel prostate cancer genomic testing products examine the underlying biology of a patient?s tumor, enabling physicians to select an optimal therapy. The firm?s whole transcriptome analysis of clinical patient samples from its commercial channel and its participation in practice-changing clinical trials has allowed it to build and expand its Decipher GRID database GRID. The company was founded by Elai Davicioni, Timothy J. Triche, Bruce A. Schmidt, and Jonathan D. Buckley and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Association for Molecular Pathology develops molecular diagnostics. The American company was founded by Jeffrey Cossman.

Guidepoint Systems provides GPS safety and vehicle security solutions. The private company is based in Fort Worth, TX.

Lifecode, Inc. provides clinical laboratory and diagnostic services for the human genome. It offers sequencing technology and bioinformatics which provides clinical information designed to help physicians make the treatment decisions for their patients. The company was founded by Dietrich A. Stephan, Sivan Bercovici, Eugene Fratkin and Helen Wang in 2011 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Sanguine BioSciences, Inc. provides biomedical research services and develops drugs. The firm maintains a bio repository of frozen samples from donors in various disease indications such as PBMC, PBMC subtypes, plasma, serum, cerebral spinal fluid, blood units and DNA/RNA. The company was founded by Brian Neman and Gerald H. Lee in 2010 and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Augment Ventures Management Co. LLC (Augment Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Sonali Vijayavargiya. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

ArcherDX LLC is a genomic analysis company, which develops software solutions for investigating cancer treatment. Its products include VariantPlex, FusionPlex, LiquidPlex, reveal ctDNA, Immunoverse, custom assays, and archer analysis. The company was founded by Jason W. Myers, A. John Iafrate, and Long Phi Le on January 1, 2013 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

The Keck School of Medicine of USC is a place of dynamic activity in patient care, scientific discovery, medical and bioscience education, and community service. Their faculty, staff, students, residents, alumni, donors and friends are committed to excellence. Together they are poised to lead medicine in the 21st Century for the benefit of humankind. This is an exciting time of great transformation as they endeavor to create a truly stellar academic medical center at USC.

Thrive Bioscience, Inc. develops advance drug discovery solutions. The firm provides automated non-microbial cell culture instruments for research, drug discovery, drug development and regenerative medicine markets. The company was founded by Alan P. Blanchard and Thomas Forest Farb in 2014 and is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.

Live Undiscovered Music, Inc. engages in the development of a social music streaming application for emerging artists, listeners, and music curators. The company was founded by Max Ferguc, Gregg Fergus, and Will Ploch in 2018 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Q-SI Operations, Inc. develops protein sequencing technologies to decode molecules life. The company was founded by Jonathan Rothberg and is headquartered in Guilford, CT.

Axios Biosciences LLC develops oncology drugs. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA.

Resolve BioSciences GmbH is a German company that applies molecular cartography to provide scientists with a high-resolution view of spatial biology. The company is based in Monheim am Rhein, Germany. The company's proprietary technology offers full spatial context at subcellular resolution, which helps scientists detect individual transcripts and rare signals to interpret fundamental biology. The company's technology is used in critical fields such as oncology, neuroscience, infectious disease, and agriculture. The company was founded by Jason T. Gammack, and John Stark has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Part of MedGenome Labs Pvt Ltd., MedGenome, Inc. engages in research and development of genomics. The company is located in the US.

Sherin & Lodgen LLP provides legal services. It serves in the industries, including construction and design, energy and cleantech, finance, health services, real estate and technology. The company was founded by Arthur Sherin and George Lodgen in 1945 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

3D Biomatrix, Inc. designs and manufactures three-dimensional scaffolds for cellular assays in drug discovery. It offers 96-well hanging drop plates, 384-well hanging drop plates, 384-well spheroid transfer tool, hanging drop plate sample packs and assay kits. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.