Evangeline Gonzalez

Animas LLC manufactures and distributes external insulin pumps for diabetes patients. The company was founded on November 5, 1996 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

Part of Roche Holding AG, Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics Corp. develops and manufactures personal diagnostic devices. The company is based in Houston, TX.

Nitric Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical and American medical device company that develops treatments for fungal and bacterial infections. The private company was founded by Francis J. McCaney.

Nitric Bio, Inc. develops therapies for podiatry and dermatology. It addresses inherent challenges of drug delivery for diseases of the skin and nails through iontophoresis and nitric oxide gas technology platforms. The company was founded by Frank J. McCaney and is headquartered in Bristol, PA.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

NB Therapeutics, Inc. develops pharmacologic therapies. The firm has two technology platforms: iontophoresis and nitric oxide gas, through these two technology platforms it seeks to address the inherent challenges of drug delivery for diseases of the skin and nails. The company was founded by Frank J. McCaney in 2006 and is headquartered in Bristol, PA.

Avisa Pharma, Inc. engages in the development of drug and device novel biomarker technology platform which enables the rapid detection of virulent bacterial pathogens within minutes. The company was founded by David Samuel Joseph in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, NM.

Aspire Bariatrics, Inc. provides a minimally-invasive and reversible weight loss solution. The firm operates as a medical device company which engages in the treatment of obesity with its non-surgical weight loss system, the AspireAssist. The company was founded by Samuel Klein, Moshe Shik and Stephen B. Solomon in 2005 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

Wills Eye Health System & Wills Eye Institute is a renowned ophthalmology hospital established in 1832 as the first hospital in the United States specializing in eye care. The hospital is located in Philadelphia, PA. Wills Eye is consistently ranked as one of America's top ophthalmology hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and has the most nationally ranked ophthalmologists in the country. It is also the #1 academic training for its residency program as voted by physicians in the nation. Wills Eye provides a full range of primary and subspecialty eye care services, including cataract, cornea, retina, emergency care, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular oncology, oculoplastics, pathology, pediatric ophthalmology and ocular genetics, and refractive surgery. The hospital also has a network of seven multi-specialty, ambulatory surgery centers throughout the tristate area.

Orthovita, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of synthetic biologically-active tissue engineering products for restoration of the human skeleton. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Founded in 2002, Othera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for ophthalmic diseases. Othera is also engaged in the discovery of a novel set of orally available compounds to address severe medical conditions including inflammatory and oncology-related diseases.

NMS Labs provides professional, state-of-the-art laboratory diagnostic services to clinicians, members of the criminal and civil justice communities, and those researching and developing new therapeutics. It offers forensic services, clinical services and research services. The company was founded by Fredric Rieders in 1970 and is headquartered in Willow Grove, PA.