Christopher Bernard

ABAXIS, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of portable blood analysis systems. It operates through the following segments: Medical Market, Veterinary Market, and Other. The Medical Market segment serves a customer group consisting of physicians’ office practices across multiple specialties, urgent care, outpatient and walk-in clinics, health screening operations, home care providers, nursing homes, ambulance companies, oncology treatment clinics, dialysis centers, pharmacies, hospital laboratories, military installations, pharmaceutical clinical trials, and cruise ship lines. The Veterinary Market segment focuses on animal hospitals, animal clinics with mixed practices of small animals, birds and reptiles, equine and bovine practitioners, veterinary emergency clinics, veterinary referral hospitals, universities, government, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and private research laboratories. The company was founded by Vladimir E. Ostoich in April 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, CA.

Cytyc Corp. manufactures and markets medical diagnostic applications. The company is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Curetis NV engages in the manufacture, research and development, and commercialization of molecular microbiology solutions. It offers unyvero platform, which comprsises of the unyvero system with the A50 analyzer at its core, proprietary software, and single-use, application-specific cartridges. The company was founded by Johannes Bacher, Gerd Luedke and Andreas Boos in August 2007 and is headquartered in Holzgerlingen, Germany.

Curetis USA, Inc. engages in the manufacture and development of diagnostic instruments. The company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Epic Sciences, Inc. develops novel diagnostics to the treatment and management of cancer. It develops sensitive diagnostic tests to molecularly characterize circulating tumor cells in the blood. The firm also offers fluid-phase biopsy that identifies rare cell of interest in the blood; and provides cancer management through earlier diagnosis, staging and therapeutic selections. The company was founded by David M. Nelson in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Metabolon, Inc. operates as a health technology company. It offers precision medicine, clinical diagnostic, and metabolomics services. The firm serves to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer product industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Part of Applied BioCode Corp., Applied BioCode, Inc. is a diagnostic testing company that designs, develops, and commercializes multiplex testing products. The company is based in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Applied BioCode offers a range of diagnostic assays, including the BioCode SARS-CoV-2 assay, the BioCode Respiratory Pathogen Panel, and the BioCode Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel. The company's technology combines "digital barcodes" with immuno- and molecular chemistry to create a new, bio-inspired Barcoded Magnetic Beads (BMB) technology. The micro BMBs are about the diameter of a human hair and are the ideal choice for cost-effective high throughput syndromic panels. The company was founded in 2008 by Winston Z. Ho, and Christopher M. Bernard has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

OncoGenesis, Inc. address the clinical need for easy-to-use and accurate screening of women for cervical cancer. It offers optimal specimen collection, point-of-care diagnostic testing. and treatment of cervical cancer worldwide. The company was founded by Peter P. Gombrich in 2008 and is headquartered in Morgan Hill, CA.