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Psychemedics (NASDAQ: PMD) is the world`s leading drug testing company using hair for the detection of drugs of abuse. Psychemedics has been successfully operating for 30 years and thousands of corporations worldwide currently rely on Psychemedics` patented hair analysis technology for their pre-employment and employee drug screening. Psychemedics` clients include over 10% of the Fortune 500, some of the largest police departments in America, Federal Reserve Banks, and schools.
Kinder Scientific is a Poway, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
BioDuro, now a PPD company, is a leading integrated drug discovery outsourcing company that provides high-quality, integrated research and development services to meet the growing needs of the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Together, PPD and BioDuro have the expertise to perform a broad range of research and development services for pharmaceutical and biotech clients from discovery through Phase IV. Founded in 2005, BioDuro has more than 675 employees, the majority of whom are based in Beijing, where the company operates a state-of-the-art, 110,000-square-foot laboratory. BioDuro provides high-quality medicinal chemistry, discovery biology, pharmacology, synthesis, bioanalytical and drug safety evaluation services. Its discovery biology services range from reagent generation to assay development to screening and biochemistry.
Vaxxas is a privately held biotechnology company focused on enhancing the performance of existing and next-generation vaccines with its proprietary high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP). Vaxxas is targeting initial applications in infectious disease and oncology. In addition to HD-MAP HexaPro clinical studies of a COVID-19 vaccine patch, Vaxxas is performing demonstration work in preparation for clinical evaluation under contract with the United States Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) on pandemic vaccination solutions. Vaxxas core technology was initially developed at the University of Queensland. The company was founded with the completion of an initial equity financing led by OneVentures Innovation Fund I with co-investors Brandon Capital Partners, Brandon BioCatalyst, and US-based HealthCare Ventures, followed by a further financing led by OneVentures. OneVentures Innovation Fund I and Brandon BioCatalyst are supported by the Australian Government’s Innovation Investment Fund (IIF) program. The IIF is an Australian Government venture capital initiative that provides investment capital and managerial expertise through licensed venture capital fund managers to investee companies.
Anokion, a spin-off from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is focused on applying the company`s antigen-specific immune tolerance technology to reduce the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins and to treat autoimmune and allergic diseases. As a platform technology, Anokion`s approach to antigen-specific tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications.