Charles Harwood

Covance, Inc. operates as a contract research organization and drug development company. Its services include research, lead optimization, analysis services, safety assessment and drug safety testing, consulting and partnering, clinical development, informatics, clinical testing, commercialization, and manufacturing support. The company was founded on November 12, 1996 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

BioReliance Corp. provides testing and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. It provides outsourced services to customers from most healthcare disciplines, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. The firm also provides safety testing services focused on the rapidly growing biologics sector of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company enables emerging and clinical stage companies who may lack the staff, expertise and financial resources to conduct many aspects of product development in-house. BioReliance was founded by Charles E. Bender in 1947 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

United BioSource Corp. is a scientific and medical affairs organization that partners with life science companies to develop and commercialize their products. The company is involved in pre- and post-approval product development; pricing, coverage, reimbursement, and access strategies; and medical publication and communications. United BioSource Corp. was founded by Ethan D. Leder and Mark P. Cleinin in 2003 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Quest Diagnostics Infectious Disease, Inc. provides diagnostic services. It offers anti infective surveillance and consultative services to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Cypress, CA.

MPI Research, Inc. provides preclinical research and development services. It offers drug safety, discovery sciences, bio-analytical and analytical solutions, surgical services, medical device evaluation, and specialty services. The company was founded by William U. Parfet in 1995 and is headquartered in Mattawan, MI.

Inform Diagnostics, Inc. provides pathology diagnostic services. It offers subspecialty anatomic pathology in the fields of breast health, dermatology, gastroenterology, hematology, and urology. The company was founded by David D. Halbert and Harold Roe in 1996 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Avista Capital Holdings LP (Avista Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Steven Webster and Thompson Dean. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cellectar, Inc. is a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company that designs and develops products to detect, treat and monitor a wide variety of human cancers. Cellectar began independent lab activities in February 2003 after forming a company and raising initial funds in the 2000-2002 timeframe. Its product candidates combine phospholipids ethers analogs (PLEs), which are lipid-like molecules, with radioisotopes that destroy or image malignant cancer cells. Because only malignant tumor cells and tissues retain large amounts of these compounds, malignant cancer-selective retention of therapeutic or diagnostic doses of radioactivity can be achieved. Cellectar has demonstrated specific uptake and retention of its product candidates in more than 45 tumor types tested in proof-of-principle preclinical animal studies. In addition, ten preclinical experiments have shown anti-tumor activity in each tumor type studied including breast, prostate, lung, glioma, pancreatic, melanoma, ovarian, uterine, renal and colorectal cancers. The compound, originally known as NM404, is being taken through the regulatory process as CLR1404. Capitalizing on the unique characteristics of malignant cancer cells, Cellectar's molecules will be designed to find, treat and follow malignancies through the delivery of radiopharmaceuticals in a novel, highly selective way.