Stephen G. Wasko

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.

Quidel Corp. engages in the development, manufacture and market of rapid diagnostic testing solutions. Its portfolio includes rapid immunoassays, cardiac immunoassays, specialized diagnostic solutions and molecular diagnostic solutions. The firm products are directly sold to end users and distributors and for professional use in physician offices, hospitals, clinical laboratories, reference laboratories, urgent care clinics, universities, retail clinics, pharmacies and wellness screening centers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Somatogen, Inc. develops specialty oxygen therapeutics. It is engaged in the research, clinical development and commercialization of genetically engineered recombinant human hemoglobin-based products. The company is located in Boulder, CO.

HandyLab, Inc. develops and manufactures novel clinical diagnostic testing products. It serves medical, industrial and bio-defense markets. The company was founded by Kalyan Handique and Sundaresh Brahmasandra in 2000 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MI.

BASE4 Group, Inc. is a provider of value vending services. It provides sourcing, packaging and marketing impulse merchandise in themed promotional displays. The company was founded in 2003 by Bradley Berkley and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

The Assay Depot, Inc. operates as a network of public and private e-commerce marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers of scientific research services. It serves large and small pharmaceutical companies, government institutes, biotechnology companies, academic researchers and citizen scientists. The company was founded by Christopher L. Petersen, Andrew B. Martin, and Kevin D. Lustig in 2007 and is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA.

NXThera, Inc. provides technology platform to treat endourological conditions. It develops medical devices to treat patients suffering from urologic conditions, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostate cancer, and kidney cancer. The company was founded by John H. Shadduck and Michael Hoey in 2008 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

HemoSonics LLC operates as a diagnostic center. Its product Quantra system provides rapid, comprehensive measurement of vital coagulation parameters at the point of care, enabling clinicians to choose the right treatment at the right time. The company was founded by Francesco Viola and William F. Walker and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Bain Capital Ventures LP (Bain Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York and California. The firm is wholly owned by Bain Capital LP.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Part of Roche Holding AG, Roche Diagnostics GmbH is a German company that develops innovative medicines, treatments, and diagnostics. The company is based in Mannheim, Germany. The CEOs of the company are Claudia Fleischer, Claus Haberda, Clemens Schmid. Roche Diagnostics was acquired by Roche Holding AG on January 01, 1999.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of biomedical research services and science education programs. It funds grants to both institutions and individuals in support of a wide range of science and research-related initiatives, including precollege and undergraduate science education, pre- and post-doctoral research fellowships, and international research activities. The company was founded by Howard R. Hughes in 1953 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engages on research of environmental studies, nanoscience, and quantitative biology, physics and nuclear energy. The lab is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University of California. It was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, also known as ibio, is a state trade association representing the life sciences industry in Illinois. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization's mission is to promote, connect, and engage the life sciences community to drive discovery, transform lives through groundbreaking research, and grow the economy. The company's membership ranges from corporations to startup companies in the biopharma, medical device, and nutrition industries. The Illinois life sciences industry is recognized as a national leader, and ibio's members are committed to expanding the boundaries of science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative and needed therapeutics and products to transform patients' lives.

Microvisk Ltd. engages in the manufacture and development of micro-viscometer based on micro electro mechanical sensors technology for medical field. The firm's products include CoagMax, CoagLite, CoagManager and SmartStrip. It develops technology for the detection and analysis of a fluid's properties using a cantilever-based micro-viscometer. The company was founded by Vladislav Djakov, Paul Morgan Vernon and Jeremy Burford Peckham in 2004 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

APCO Employees Credit Union functions as a state-chartered credit union. The private company is based in Birmingham, AL and has subsidiaries in the United States. The CEO of the company is Derrick E. Ragland.

Momentum Bioscience Ltd. develops a technology for the detection of infection in blood and other normally sterile body fluids. Its solutions include EMA Sepsis, a detection method for organisms in blood; EMA Total, a detection method for organisms in NSF; EMA Bacteria for the detection of bacteria; and EMA Fungi for the detection of fungi. The company was founded by William Henry Mullen in 2008 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.

Part of MDxHealth SA, MDxHealth, Inc. is a precision diagnostics company that specializes in providing personalized molecular diagnostic information for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The company is based in Irvine, CA, with laboratory operations in Nijmegen and headquarters in Herstal, Belgium. The company's tests are based on proprietary genetic and epigenetic technologies that assist physicians in diagnosing urologic cancers and predicting recurrence risk. MDxHealth's ConfirmMDx for Prostate Cancer test helps to rule-in high-risk men who have had a previous negative biopsy result and rule-out otherwise cancer-free men from undergoing unnecessary repeat biopsies and screening procedures.

First Light Diagnostics, Inc. develops automated medical diagnostic products for the detection of microbes that cause healthcare and hospital infections. The firm offers MultiPath technology detects and counts fluorescent targets without using magnification. Its MultiPath technology is used for screening, blood infections, surgical infections, skin infections and GI infections. The company was founded by Donald Straus and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Sterilis LLC develops regulated medical waste remediation device. It sterilizes and grinds medical waste, rendering it acceptable for disposal in regular trash as described in OSHA and State regulations. The company was founded by Jeffrey H. Bell in June 2011 and is headquartered in Boxborough, MA.

Francis Medical, Inc. develops an innovative and patented vapor ablation therapy to treat a variety of endourological cancers, beginning with prostate cancer. The company was founded by Michael F. Hoey and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

Altoida, Inc. operates as a health technology firm that uses active digital biomarkers and cutting-edge technology. It offers an FDA-cleared and CE Mark-approved medical device and brain health data platform to support early detection of Alzheimer's disease. The company was founded by Richard Fischer, Ioannis Tarnanas and Maximillian and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Clinical Genomics, Inc. provides genomic screening services. The private company is based in Bridgewater.

SwipeSense, Inc. develops and markets hand sanitation devices. The firm offers different kinds of sanitizer dispensers, including wall-mounted version and portable version. Its sanitizers are connected too an application that automates the manual observation reporting and also analyzes information. Users can view individual compliance levels, unit comparisons, and historical trends through the app. The company was founded by Mert Hilmi Iseri and Yuri Frank Maxwell Malina in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.