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Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Crown Bioscience, Inc. provides biomedical outsourcing solutions. It provides syngeneic and xenograft tumor models and custom model development and drug testing. The firm produces antibodies for therapeutic, diagnostic and theranostic applications. It also offers preclinical and drug development for anti-cancers therapeutics. The company was founded by Dr. Yiyou Chen, Dr. Yue Alexander Wu, Dr. William Pan and Dr. Faming Zhang in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lattice Engines, Inc. provides predictive marketing and sales applications. It offers salesPRISM, a sales intelligence software; playmaker, a marketing software; and visiDB, a software for data integration and data management. The firm also provides fundPRISM, a software solution that makes ongoing recommendations to wholesalers in asset management companies on which advisors to contact, at what frequency, and with what messaging. The company was founded by Kent McCormick, Michael McCarroll and Shashi Upadhyay in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Applied StemCell, Inc. is a biotechnology company. Its products include stem cell research, genome editing products for cell line generation, primary cells from patient samples and isogenic cell lines. The company was founded by Ruhong Jiang, Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai and Michael Cleary and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

NVIGEN, Inc. develops multifunctional and biodegradable nanoparticles. Its products include MagVigen, MaxVigen, MyQuVigen, and AuVigen. The company was founded by Aihua Fu and Guo Liang Yu and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

QuanDx, Inc. provides molecular diagnostics. It specializes in the development and commercialization of novel diagnostic tools. The firm provides diagnostic and prognostic information for hematological and solid tumor cancers, as well as a number of infectious diseases. The company was founded by Matthew Lei and Guo-Liang Yu in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Ensim Corp. provides software solutions for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. It offers solutions to manage and automate private and public cloud, user entitlement, provisioning, billing, and customer support for applications and services. The firm’s technologies including unified communications (UC), virtual desktops and servers, hosted cloud applications (SaaS), email, instant messaging, VoIP, collaboration, database, and website hosting environments can be subscribed, provisioned, automated, secured, compliant, self-managed, invoiced, and policy controlled with Ensim products. The company was founded was founded by Srikanth Chari, Samir Mathur, Xun Wilson Huang, Srinivasan Keshav, Rosen Sharma and Snorri Gylfason in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Core Laboratories, Inc., TomoSeis Corp. provides highly detailed reservoir imaging technologies. The company is based in Houston, TX. The company was founded by James W. Rector. TomoSeis was acquired by Core Laboratories NV on January 12, 2000 for $12.80 million.

Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. operates as a plant biotechnology company. It develops genetic and chemical solutions for a range of agricultural markets. The firm offers biofuel feedstocks, yield enhancement, flowering, drought tolerance, freezing tolerance, disease resistance, nutrient use efficiency, and cold germination products. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

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

University of the Pacific is a nationally ranked university with a long tradition of dedicated teaching, small class sizes, practical experience and vibrant residential life. The breathtaking main campus in Stockton, California is home to seven schools and colleges, with more than 80 majors and programs of study. Pacific also has the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. Total university enrollment is nearly 7,000, with 3,757 undergraduates in an average class size of 19 and a student/faculty ratio of 14:1. It is located in Stockton, California.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engages on research of environmental studies, nanoscience, and quantitative biology, physics and nuclear energy. The lab is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University of California. It was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

National Academy of Sciences operates as a private, nongovernmental institution that advises on issues related to science and technology. It provides independent, objective analysis and advice and conducts other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The firm also encourages education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science. The company was founded on March 3, 1863 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists operates as an association of exploration geophysicists. The non-profit company is based in Tulsa, OK and has subsidiaries in the United States.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity (OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity) is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary of Orbimed Advisors LLC founded in 1993 by Samuel D. Isaly. The firm is headquartered in New York and it has additional offices in San Francisco, Mumbai, Shanghai, Herzliya, Hong Kong and London.

The National Foundation for Cancer Research is a non-profit organization that provides funding to scientists for cancer research. The non-profit company is based in Bethesda, MD. The company's mission is to support life-saving discoveries for cancer patients.

Averant, Inc. provides computer integrated systems designs. The firm focuses on verification of complex ICs and digital intellectual property. It offers platform for property, protocol, and automatic design checks. The company was founded by Ramin Hojati in 1997 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

The Chinese-American Biopharmaceutical Society is a non-profit organization for professionals in the biopharmaceutical industry. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA, the birthplace of biotechnology and one of the largest biomedical hubs in the world. The company's membership consists of life science professionals from a broad range of experience levels, with a large percentage of members holding senior or executive positions in the industry. The society offers year-round sponsorship opportunities, including the highly anticipated 2023 annual BioPacific Conference, and leverages an extensive network of life sciences professionals.

Coburn Barrett LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1998 by Thomas Wehlen, Eleanor Brigham Wehlen and Andrew Brigham. Coburn Barrett provides investment advisory services to GLI Fund LLC, a private open-ended investment fund organized as a Cayman Islands exempted company.

SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Apollomics, Inc. operates as a sciences oncology company. It is a biotechnology company focusing on the discovery and development of oncology therapies with the potential to be combined with other treatment options to harness the immune system and target specific molecular pathways to inhibit cancer. The company was founded by Sanjeev Gurunath Redkar and Guo-Liang Yu on May 21, 2015 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Inner Mongolia JiuTai Advanced Materials Technology Co., Ltd. engages in research and development, and production and sales of chemical products. Its products include polyethylene, polypropylene, butadiene, methanol, and other related deep-processed chemical products. The company was founded by Lian Guo Cui on December 25, 2003 and is headquartered in Ordos City, China.