Richard J. Bastiani

ID Biomedical Corp. develops gene-based disease testing and subunit vaccines. It conducts research, development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing from its facilities in Canada and in the United States. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

ABAXIS, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of portable blood analysis systems. It operates through the following segments: Medical Market, Veterinary Market, and Other. The Medical Market segment serves a customer group consisting of physicians’ office practices across multiple specialties, urgent care, outpatient and walk-in clinics, health screening operations, home care providers, nursing homes, ambulance companies, oncology treatment clinics, dialysis centers, pharmacies, hospital laboratories, military installations, pharmaceutical clinical trials, and cruise ship lines. The Veterinary Market segment focuses on animal hospitals, animal clinics with mixed practices of small animals, birds and reptiles, equine and bovine practitioners, veterinary emergency clinics, veterinary referral hospitals, universities, government, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and private research laboratories. The company was founded by Vladimir E. Ostoich in April 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, CA.

Dendreon Corp. discovers, develops and commercializes novel products for the treatment of cancer. The company applies its expertise in antigen identification, engineering and cell processing to produce active cellular immunotherapy ACI product candidates designed to stimulate an immune response in a variety of tumor types. It is an exploring the application of additional ACI product candidates and small molecules for the potential treatment of a variety of cancers. Dendreon was founded by Christopher S. Henney, Edgar G. Engleman and Samuel Strober in 1992 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Response Biomedical Corp. engages in the research, development, commercialization, and distribution of diagnostic technologies. The firm serves the medical central-lab testing, point of care testing, and on-site environmental testing markets. It provides RAMP system, which is a portable fluorescence immunoassay-based diagnostic technology that combines the performance of a clinical lab with the convenience of a dipstick test. The company was founded on August 20, 1980 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Satoris, Inc. develops tests for neurological diseases. It develops tests for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, and Diabetic Neuropathy. The company was founded in 2003 by Tony Wyss-Coray and Sandip Ray and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

C3 Jian, Inc. operates as a biotechnological research and development company. It provides development and commercialization of pathogen-specific and antimicrobials that treat and prevent diseases caused by microbial dysbiosis. The company is headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA.

BioNex Solutions, Inc. develops instrumentation and integrated systems for laboratory automation applications in biopharmaceutical, biotech, academic research and clinical laboratories. It offers Automation, Robotics, Control Software, Manufacturing and Engineering products. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.