Drew Applefield

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center provides research and education grants. Its services include financing, technology assessment, business planning, and marketing strategies implementation. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Founded in 2003, LifeTech Research, Inc. is an investment research, technology development and due diligence firm located in Edgewater, Maryland. The firm provides due-diligence and business development services across the life sciences sector. They advise business development offices on product licensing and acquisition strategies and they support early-stage entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas and technologies. LifeTech also assists international financing agencies to facilitate the granting and lending of capital to improve economic welfare and societal health. LifeTech's research methods include (1) benchmarking (2) historic trend and meta-analysis (3) bias assessment and adjustment (4) decision analysis and Monte Carlo simulation (5) scenario analysis, back-testing and other statistical validation (6) advanced regression modeling and (7) risk and time-adjusted present value modeling.