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Aphios Corp. is a private company that discovers new chemical or molecular entities from medicinal plants and marine organisms. The company is based in Woburn, MA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company develops enhanced therapeutics for certain cancers and cancer supportive care, HIV, and Alzheimer's disease. The company also improves drug delivery, discovery, and manufacturing, and remove harmful pathogens from biologics and the human blood supply. Aphios has developed supercritical fluids technologies and equipment for drug discovery and manufacturing of natural pharmaceuticals. The company has also developed a cellulosic biomass pretreatment process using supercritical CO2 for converting biomass into ethanol and other wood-based chemicals. The company was founded in 1993 by Trevor P. Castor, who has been the CEO since 1993.

Monarch Antenna, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of antenna technology devices. Its patented Self-Structuring Antenna (SSA) helps to improve the reliability of the wireless link. SSA responds to changes in the RF signal environment by dynamically reconfiguring its electrical shape to maximize the Signal-To-Noise-Ratio. The company was founded by Tayfun Özdemir and Jayson D. Pankin on January 29, 2007 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.