Kathleen L. Mattis

NeuroNascent, Inc. is an IND-enabling stage biopharmaceutical company that develops orally available, novel therapeutics aimed at halting or reversing chronic neurological disorders. It offers disease-modifying therapeutics for some of the most difficult to treat brain disorders that include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Down syndrome. The Company is founded by Judith Kelleher-Andersson in May 2004 and is headquartered in Clarksville, MD.

J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Seneca Biopharma, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, and commercialization of central nervous system therapies based on human neuronal stem cells and small molecule compounds. Its pipeline includes NSI-189 small molecule program, NSI-566 stem cell therapy program, and novel & proprietary chemical entity screening platform. The company was founded by I. Richard Garr, Karl Y. Johe, and Merrill Solomon in 1996 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

Celera Group provides molecular diagnostics using proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery platforms to identify and validate novel diagnostic markers and to develop diagnostic products based on these markers. These diagnostic products are used to predict disease risk and optimize therapy selection, monitoring and patient outcome. The company was founded in May, 1998 and is located in Rockville, MD

Part of Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. is a company that manufactures pharmaceutical preparations. The company is based in Clayton, NC.

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as an oncology company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company was founded by Harvey J. Berger and James E. Rothman on January 8, 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.