Riccardo Pigliucci

Discovery Partners International, Inc. (DPI) used to research laboratory looking to discovery pharmaceutical products. It was a small molecule and natural product based drug discovery company that offered collaborations and services complementing the internal capabilities of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical. Discovery Partners has actively contributed to dozens of drug discovery collaborations. The company had operations in United States and Europe. The company was founded in 1995 was headquartered in San Diego, CA

Dionex Corp. develops, manufactures, sells, and services chromatography and extraction systems for separating, isolating, and identifying the components of chemical mixtures. The firm's products are used extensively by the environmental, life science, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemicals, electronics and power industries. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Epoch Biosciences, Inc. manufactures and develops molecular tools for genetic analysis. Its technology has numerous applications including the detection of inherited diseases and single nucleotide polymorphisms to identify individuals at risk for disease or adverse drug reactions and gene expression measurement. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.

BioSphere Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets microsphere technology to medical applications. The company uses microsphere technology to develop its products for medical applications using embolotherapy techniques. It offers Embosphere Microspheres for uterine fibroids, hypervascularized tumors and other arteriovenous malformations, EmboGold Microspheres for Hypervascularized tumors and arteriovenous malformations, EmboCath Infusion Catheter and Segway Guidewire for peripheral embolization procedures and HepaSphere Microspheres for liver cancer. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Rockland, MA.

Applera Corp. manufactures medical instruments

Capsant Neurotechnologies Ltd. provided pre-clinical assay services to the drug development industry. It offered in-vitro tissue based screening technologies based on ex-vivo tissues and reaggregated 3D systems. The firm significantly reduced the costs associated with pre-clinical drug development and shortening the overall decision process in the selection of lead candidates for clinical evaluation. The company was founded by Lars Eric Sundstrom, Ashley Ker Pringle and John Edward Chad on June 21, 2002 and was headquartered in Gray's Inn, the United Kingdom.

ProterixBio, Inc. supplies novel protein measurement technology. It manufactures and markets the ViBE platform, enabling highly sensitive, automated acoustic immunoassays to accelerate drug discovery, development and production of biological and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Edward F. Crawley and Mark Lundstrom in 2002 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.