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Sera Prognostics is a leading proteomic and bioinformatics company dedicated to improving the lives of women and babies through precision biomarker-based tests designed to enhance pregnancy care. Sera’s vision is to deliver pivotal information in early pregnancy to physicians, to help them to improve the health of their patients and reduce costs of healthcare delivery. Sera’s PreTRM® Test reports to a physician the individualized risk of a pregnant woman to deliver prematurely, enabling earlier proactive interventions in patients with higher risk. Rigorous clinical validation of PreTRM® Test performance (accuracy of predicting premature delivery) was reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2016 in a U.S. cohort of 5,501 patients across 11 centers. Preterm birth is defined as any birth before 37 weeks gestation and is a leading cause of illness and death in newborns. The 2020 March of Dimes Report Card shows that of nearly 4 million babies born annually in the U.S., more than one in ten is born prematurely. Prematurity is associated with a significantly increased risk of major long-term medical complications, including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, chronic respiratory illness, intellectual disability, seizures, vision and hearing loss, and can generate significant cost throughout the lives of affected children. The annual U.S. health care costs to manage complications of prematurity were estimated at $31.5B for 2015. Sera is also developing a robust pipeline of innovative tests focused on other complications of pregnancy. Using its advanced proprietary mass spectrometry and bioinformatics platform technologies, Sera detects biologically important protein expression differences to build high performing predictions of risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes (including preterm birth, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, growth restriction, and others).
The Institute for Athletic Medicine is a Chicago, IL-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with a history of nearly 150 years. Founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly, the company has grown to become one of the largest pharmaceutical enterprises in the world, employing over 42,900 people as of 2023. Lilly focuses on biomedical research, drug discovery, and manufacturing, with a diverse portfolio that includes treatments for diabetes, oncology, neuroscience, and immunology. Lilly pioneered the first commercially available insulin product in 1923 and continues to innovate with modern offerings like Trulicity and Mounjaro for diabetes management. The company also develops drugs such as Verzenio for breast cancer and Zyprexa for psychiatric disorders. With a strong emphasis on research and development, Lilly is recognized for its commitment to improving drug accessibility and patient care through partnerships with healthcare providers and systems worldwide.
We are entering a new era of medicine, where cancer is treated with cellular therapies: living, smart, targeted drugs. While enormous strides have been made, especially in hematologic cancers, the full promise of these therapies still lies ahead. Cell-based immunotherapies have yet to show substantial benefit in solid tumors, which represent the vast majority of cancers. Our goal is nothing less than to develop curative cell-based therapies for solid tumor cancers.
A W Research Laboratories is a Brainerd, MN-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.