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Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. handles, protects and licenses technologies developed by the faculty, staff and students. It facilitates the licensing of technology to companies, encourages new faculty startup ventures, works with publishers and distributors of software, and supports the transfer of research and knowledge to other universities, research institutes and companies. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA.

Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel BV develops and distributes vegetables and seeds. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in de Lier, the Netherlands.

Genecor, Inc. provides engineering services. The company is headquartered in Quebec City, Canada.

National University Corp. Tokyo Medical & Dental University is a private company headquartered in Japan that operates as an national educational institution for dentistry.

Licentia Ltd. is a private company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, that engages in the medical and biological research and development.

Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT) was a biopharmaceutical company with a major focus on developing products for the treatment of rare diseases. The company is used to markets one product, Replagal™, for the treatment of Fabry disease in the European Union and other countries, and was developing products for Hunter syndrome and Gaucher disease. The company was located in Cambridge, MA.

Agilent Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of application focused solutions for life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets. It operates through the following segments: Life Sciences and Applied Markets, Diagnostics and Genomics, and Agilent CrossLab. The Life Sciences and Applied Markets segment offers application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that identify, quantify, and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular and cellular level. The Diagnostics and Genomics segment consists of activity providing active pharmaceutical ingredients for oligo-based therapeutics, as well as solutions that include reagents, instruments, software and consumables. The Agilent CrossLab segment includes startup, operational, training and compliance support, software as a service, and asset management and consultative services. The company was founded in May 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Danisco US, Inc. manufactures synthetic resins, synthetic rubbers and industrial chemicals. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Abbott Laboratories engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a broad and diversified line of health care products. It operates through the following business segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The Established Pharmaceutical Products segment refers to the international sales of a line of branded generic pharmaceutical products. The Diagnostic Products segment markets diagnostic systems and tests for blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories, and alternate-care testing sites. The Nutritional Products segment caters to the worldwide sales of adult and pediatric nutritional products. The Medical Devices segment includes electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes care products for people with diabetes, as well as neuromodulation devices for the management of chronic pain and movement disorders. The company was founded by Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale provides medical services. The firm specializes in biomedical research and public health research. The company is headquartered in Paris, Cedex, France.

Cronos Therapeutics, Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapeutics and diagnostics based on epigenomics for the detection and treatment of cancer. Its GeneICE compounds represent a way of treating diseases by acting to shut down harmful genes and therefore prevent their expression. The company's HyperGenomics platform characterizes disease state by detecting areas on the chromosome where genes are active. Its compound, which is undergoing development, acts to shut down the Bcl-2 gene. Cronos Therapeutics, Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. As of October 3, 2006, Cronos Therapeutics Ltd. is a subsidiary of ValiRX PLC.

As of May 28, 2009, Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was acquired by Clinical Data, Inc. Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of cancer therapeutics using its proprietary AvalonRx technology in the United States. The company’s lead product candidate, AVN944, an inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) inhibitor, is in Phase IIa clinical development for the treatment of hematologic and solid cancers. Avalon Pharmaceuticals has drug discovery, development, and commercialization agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. to identify and develop inhibitors against a selected target in the area of oncology; a collaboration and license agreement with MedImmune, Inc. for the discovery of small molecule therapeutic compounds in the area of inflammatory disease; a collaboration agreement with ChemDiv, Inc. for the discovery and development of small molecule oncology therapeutics; a collaboration with Medarex, Inc. to jointly research, develop, and commercialize human antibodies against the company’s cancer targets; and an agreement with Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. for the discovery of small molecule therapeutic compounds. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland.

Fasteris is a Swiss biotechnology company based in Geneva.It is a provider of Next-Generation Sequencing & Sanger DNA sequencing services. They work worldwide for private, academic and industrial research laboratories. Since 2012, they provide NGS services for medical diagnostics.

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. engages in plant breeding research and development services. It develops types of vegetables, which are marketed to commercial vegetable growers, dealers, distributors, and wholesalers. The firm’s products include Fresh Market, Home Garden, Processor, Performance Series Sweet Corn, SummerSlice Watermelons and Pepper X10R and Technology. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

John Wayne Cancer Institute is an American private company located in Santa Monica, CA. The firm operates cancer research institute.\nThe company says this about itself: Since 1981, the family of John Wayne has been committed to pioneering cancer research in memory of their father, who died of cancer. The courageous and dedicated researchers at the John Wayne Cancer Institute have made groundbreaking discoveries that have changed the way cancer is detected, diagnosed and treated around the world. Today the tradition of excellence continues as the Institute spearheads new research advances, while training the next generation of leaders in the fight against cancer through its renowned Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program. The Institute provides immediate hope to cancer patients everywhere.

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Oxford BioDynamics Plc is a biotechnology company, which engages in the discovery and development of novel epigenetic biomarkers for use within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The company was founded by Christian Gurth Hoyer Millar, Alexandre Akoulitchev, and Aroul Ramadass on April 23, 2007 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.