Thomas C. Shanahan

IMMCO Diagnostics, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic kits and laboratory supplies for hospitals, clinical laboratories, and research institutions. It offers its services for rapid diagnostic tests, drug testing, fertility, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, serology, microbiology, interlab electrophoresis, laboratory instrumentation, infectious diseases, UPT urine transport vials, chromsystems HPLC and LC-MS and MS, and urinalysis. The company was founded by Vijay Kumar in 1971 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Strong Memorial Hospital Communication is a private company that includes the School of Nursing and the Department of Psychiatry. The company is based in Rochester, NY. The School of Nursing is a national leader in nursing education, practice, and research. The Department of Psychiatry is striving to develop a state-of-the-art academic clinical department that encompasses both outpatient and inpatient services with a quadripartite mission of clinical care, community service, education, and research.

Erie County Medical Center Corp. is a hospital located in Buffalo, NY. The hospital is a Level 1 Adult Trauma Center and a regional center for burn care, behavioral health services, transplantation, cancer care, and rehabilitation. The CEO of the private company is Thomas J. Quatroche.

The American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) is a not-for-profit association of clinical and research professionals including immunologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, transplant physicians and surgeons, pathologists and technologists. As a professional society involved in histocompatibility, immunogenetics and transplantation, ASHI is dedicated to advancing the science and application of histocompatibility and immunogenetics; providing a forum for the exchange of information; and advocating the highest standards of laboratory testing in the interest of optimal patient care