Laurence Cooper

Secure Transfusion Solutions, Inc. is a life sciences company based in Austin, TX that aims to increase the quality, safety, and availability of transfusable blood components, starting first with apheresis platelets. STS provides healthcare institutions with safe and consistent service and true supply chain diversification. By partnering with STS, hospital systems diversify their sourcing risks, strengthening their supply chain and putting them in position to meet the transfusion needs of their patients. Customers of STS include some of the most well-respected and innovative medical institutions in the country. The company was founded by Vijai P. Mohan and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

CellChorus LLC is a company that applies artificial intelligence to visually evaluate the performance of individual immune cells such as T cells and NK cells over time. The company is based in South San Francisco, CA and was founded by Navin Varadarajan and Laurence James Neil Cooper. The company uses time-lapse imaging microscopy in nanowell grids (TIMING) with neural network-based AI to identify cells and evaluate their activity. The company's patent-protected platform can link TIMING data and insights with information from other analysis modalities to provide a comprehensive understanding of cellular function, state, and phenotype for the life sciences industry. CellChorus conducts dynamic single-cell analysis at scale and has been featured in various publications such as Blood, Leukemia, and Nature Immunology. Daniel Meyer has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.