Francis J. Meyer

TriPath Imaging, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of equipment and products for cervical cytology screening. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in Burlington, NC.

Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the potential further development of its MAXY-G34 product, a next-generation pegylated, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, G-CSF, for the treatment of chemotherapy induced neutropenia and acute radiation syndrome. G-CSF is a natural protein that functions by stimulating the body's bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. The company was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc. Provides pharmaceutical management services. Its services include electronic order entry, medication and treatment administration, and management and reporting, in-house pharmacy, car coded med-pass packs, and pharmacy response. The firm also offers transition services such as data transfer, training, and installation and se-up. The company was founded by Gary Duty, Lena Sturgeon, and William J. Gatti in 2001 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Silverback Asset Management LLC (Silverback) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The firm was founded by Elliot Bossen in 2002. Silverback offers investment solutions for qualified institutional investors which includes pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices and others.

BaroSense Inc. operates as a medical device company that focuses on the research and development of minimally invasive medical devices for the treatment of obesity. The company was founded by Richard S. Stack and William N. Starling, Jr. in 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Vertos Medical, Inc. develops and markets minimally invasive devices for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. Its product is called mild devices, which conists of mild Tissue Sculpter, mild Portal, mild Trocar and Handle, mild Bone Sculpter Rongeur, mild Portal Stabilizer, mild Depth Guide, and mild Surgical Clamp. The company was founded by David Solsberg and Donald F. Schomer in 2005 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops heparin to ameliorate cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injuries. It also develops medications to enhance the safety and effectiveness of existing cancer treatments. The firm provides Disulfiram + copper Chelate that includes non-overlapping cancer stem cell killing mechanisms of actions. The company was founded in 2013 by Thomas P. Kennedy, Neil William Flanzraich and Stephen G. Marcus and is headquartered in Weston, FL.

Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed therapeutics and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 2006 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ampersand Management LLC (Ampersand Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Richard A. Charpie. The firm is headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

CHL Healthcare Partners LLC (CHL Medical Partners) is a venture capital firm co-founded in 1997 by Jeff Collinson, Tim Howe and Ron Lennox. The firm is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

Emerald BioAgriculture Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets crop protection products. The firm provides applications from modern biology to crop yields that combat disease and fight pests. It also provides agricultural products and consultant services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Okemos, MI.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides medical services. It offers patient care, biomedical research, teaching, and community services. It also provides organ transplantation, breast cancer care, and cardiac surgery services. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

FlowCardia, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures endovascular devices. It offers flowmate Injector to optimize the performance of crosser cto recanalization and crosser catheter, a minimally-invasive endovascular device. The firm also provides portfolio of catheter-based technologies to facilitate guidewire crossing of totally occluded coronary and peripheral arteries. The company was founded by Henry Nita and Erik T. Engelson in 2001 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center provides research and education grants. Its services include financing, technology assessment, business planning, and marketing strategies implementation. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

BioLabs, Inc. provides clinical laboratory services. It offers clinical and anatomical laboratory services to physician offices, clinics, subacute treatment centers, public sector entities and home-bound patients. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Gentis, Inc. engages in the development and testing technologies for the minimally invasive treatments. The company was founded by Charles Cohen and Paul Ducheyne in 2000 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Urgent Care Centers of New England, Inc. provides neighborhood urgent health care services. It offers blood tests, EKG, common medications, labs, occupational medicine, routine physical exams, vaccinations and health screening and X-ray services. The company provides allergic reactions, children's illnesses and injuries and travel care services. CareWell Urgent Care was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Quincy, MA.

BioInnovation Management LLC (Bioinnovation Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Peter D Parker and Susie T Harborth. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Envisia Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel ocular therapies. It provides glaucoma drug therapies that include PRINT particle therapeutics to overcome biologic and chemical. The company was founded by 2013 is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Healthinvest Equity Partners (Healthinvest Equity) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Wilfred Jaeger M.D. The firm is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut.

Cereius, Inc. develops novel radio-labeled therapeutics for treating solid tumor brain metastasis. The firm delivers new targeted classes of both radiologic diagnostics and radiotherapeutics for the treatment of cancers in the brain. The company was founded by Kimberly Blackwell and Michael R. Zalutsky in 2017 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Alucent Biomedical Inc. operates as a biomedical company. It focuses on transforming the way vascular disease is treated by which natural vascular scaffolding (NVS) is a breakthrough technology developed to address the unmet need of patients with difficult-to-treat peripheral artery disease (PAD). The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.