Herman H. Vandenburgh

National Institutes Of Health conducts & supports peer-reviewed medical research and science. The firm's scientists & researchers investigate on different ways to prevent diseases as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Myomics, Inc. developed drugs to treat neuromuscular disease indications, such as muscle atrophy in the elderly and muscle wasting in chronic illness, included cancer and muscular dystrophy disorders. It had discovery programs based on its two proprietary technology platforms: tissue-engineered muscle, which can be generated in vitro from human and animal models of normal and diseased muscle, and opto-mechanical systems to monitor the ability of candidate compounds to increase the contractile strength of tissue-engineered muscle. The company was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Providence, RI.