Fred E. Regnier

Perfinity Biosciences, Inc. develops and commercializes medical technology. It specializes in protein sample preparation ahead of mass spectrometry analysis. The firm also offers new business plans, focusing on sample preparation techniques and tools to facilitate mass spectrometry. Its products include Mag Beads, Quicprep, Flash Digest, workstation and consumables. The company was founded by Fred Regnier and David D. Nolte in 2010 and is headquartered in West Lafayette, IN.

Novilytic LLC is a private company that focuses on the pharmaceutical bioreactor market. The company supply kits that enable molecular recognition and quantification, which were developed and validated in collaboration with pharmaceutical pilot partners and customers. The company is based in West Lafayette, IN. Novilytic has worked on a number of SBIR grants through the National Institute of Health and its associated institutes. The company is backed by more than 10 patents (and two pending), partnerships with multiple analytical instrument companies, 2 pharmaceutical consortiums, and analytical science universities. The company's technology helps ensure quality and consistency by recognizing molecular structure early and often, which saves time and reduces purification costs. The CEO of the company is Paul C. Dreier.

Quadraspec, Inc. is a diagnostic company engaged in the development of in-vitro diagnostic products for the laboratory, clinical, research and life sciences markets. Their products are used in veterinary for canine heartworm, by biotechnology companies for assay development, biomarker identification, and patient screening during pre-clinical and clinical development and in clinical diagnostics. It developed a direct detection technology which eliminates the usage of secondary and labeled reagents. The company’s proprietary Spinning Disc Interferometry (SDI) Detection technology platform detects and quantifies more than 1,000 unique antigens, biomarkers, or other molecular species on a single array providing a reagent-free detection technology. Its dual channel detector, Inspira Reader features reagent-free detection and orthogonal detection method for quantification of molecular assays. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana.

PerSeptive Biosystems developed and manufactured an integrated system for the purification, analysis, and synthesis of bio-molecules, reducing the time and cost of drug discoveries. BVP’s Chris Gabrieli invested in the company’s second round in December 1989. PerSeptive was purchased by Perkin Elmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) in 1998, it is a part of Applied Biosystems (NYSE: ABI), a subsidiary of Applera, Perkin Elmer’s former biotechnology division