Peter Tunón

Part of Asahi Kasei Corp., Technikrom, Inc. is a bioprocessing company that aims to provide assurance to biopharmaceutical companies and eventually to patients and the community in the form of viral-safe medications. The company is based in Glenview, IL. Technikrom offers support and inspiration to biopharmaceutical companies and reduces bioburden quickly in clarification using biooptimal™ mf-sl hollow membrane fiber microfilter, with speedy large volume processing capacity. Asahi Kasei Bioprocess is pioneering biologics safety and manufacturing efficiency. Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd. acquired Technikrom on March 01, 2009.

GE Healthcare AB wholesales and distributes pharmaceutical products. It promotes contrast agents for X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and radiopharmaceuticals, use to predict and diagnose early-stage diseases. The company was founded on October 21, 1983 and is headquartered in Danderyd, Sweden.

NATRIX Separations, Inc. manufactures and supplies single use and multi-cycle disposable chromatography products to the life science, food, beverage and water markets. Its technology consists of a polymeric hydrogel formed within a flexible porous support matrix. The firm offers NatriFlo HD-Q membrane absorbers for single-use flow-through polish applications and Natrix HD-C hydrogel membrane devices for bind-elute applications. The company was founded by Alicja Mika, Lisa Crossley, and Ronald F. Childs in 2004 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.

Cellectricon AB provides cell-based screening services to accelerate drug discovery. The firm develops and validates exciting central nervous system and peripheral pain assays using primary cells, accelerating the path from assay validation to compound screening. Its system is equipped with an imaging-based microplate reader to simultaneously record transient fluorescence and luminescence signals, providing real-time monitoring and readouts of cell culture response. The company was founded by Jan Owe Owesson Orwar, Daniel T. Chiu and Stig Anders Jakob Lindberg in 1999 and is headquartered in Molndal, Sweden.

Life Technologies, Inc. provides essential technologies needed by the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical communities. The company manufactures and markets a breadth of offerings unique in the industry, used in applications of the life sciences discovery, development, and production process

OncoPlex Diagnostics, Inc. operates a cancer diagnostics laboratory. It provides information that helps physicians choose targeted therapies and avoid therapies. The company is headquartered in Rockville, MD.