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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is the leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. The company offers physicians the broadest test menu (3,000+ tests), is a pioneer in developing innovative new tests, is the leader in cancer diagnostics, provides anatomic pathology (AP) services, & interpretive consultation through its medical & scientific staff of about 900 M.D.s & Ph.D.s. The company has about 42,000 employees, serves approximately ½ of all physicians & hospitals in the U.S., & reported 2011 revenues of $7.5 billion. Quest Diagnostics offers the most extensive clinical testing network in the U.S., with laboratories in most major metropolitan areas, & in Mexico, the UK & India. The company also operates four esoteric laboratories, 40 outpatient AP laboratories, & 160 smaller, rapid-response laboratories. Patients may have specimens collected in any of the company’s approximately 2,000 patient service centers. On a typical workday, testing is performed for about 550,000 patients. Quest Diagnostics empowers healthcare organizations & clinicians with state-of-the-art connectivity solutions. The company is the leading provider of pre-employment drugs-of-abuse screening for employers & risk assessment services for the life insurance industry. It is the world’s 2nd largest provider of clinical trials testing for new pharmaceuticals.
Naviscan is a San Diego, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Covina Imaging is a Covina, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
OncoMed is a clinical development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class monoclonal antibody therapeutics targeting cancer stem cells, or CSCs. To date, we have advanced five novel anti-CSC product candidates into more than a dozen clinical studies and we continue to pursue the discovery of additional novel anti-cancer stem cell therapeutics. All of our product candidates were discovered internally in our own research laboratories. OncoMed’s discovery efforts focus on cancer stem cells, which are the subpopulation of cells in a tumor responsible for driving growth and metastasis of the tumor. CSCs, also known as tumor-initiating cells, exhibit certain properties which include the capacity to divide and give rise to new CSCs via a process called self-renewal and the capacity to differentiate or change into the other cells that form the bulk of the tumor. Common cancer drugs target bulk tumor cells but have limited impact on CSCs, thereby providing a path for cancer recurrence and metastases. Our product candidates target CSCs pathways by blocking self-renewal and driving differentiation of CSCs toward a non-tumorigenic state, and also impact bulk tumor cells. We believe our product candidates are distinct from current generations of chemotherapies and targeted therapies, and have the potential to significantly impact cancer treatment and the clinical outcome of patients with cancer. We utilize our proprietary technologies to (1) identify, isolate and evaluate CSCs, (2) identify and/or validate multiple potential targets and pathways critical to CSC self-renewal and differentiation, and (3) develop targeted antibody and other protein-based therapeutics that are designed to modulate cancer stem cell targets and inhibit the growth of CSCs. These targets are in pathways implicated in cancer biology and stem cell biology. Our current clinical and preclinical product candidates address targets in the Notch, Wnt and RSPO pathways, as well as other undisclosed fundamental CSC pathways.
Stream Dynamics is a Menlo Park, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.