Richard D. Whitaker

New England Biolabs, Inc. produces and supplies reagents for the life science industry. The firm?s products include restriction endonucleases, PCR, qPCR and amplification technologies, DNA modifying enzymes, sample preparation for next generation sequencing, nucleic acid purification, DNA assembly, cloning and mutagenesis kits, genome editing, competent cells, markers and ladders, RNA reagents, gene expression, cellular analysis, epigenetics, protein tools, DNA plasmids, glycobiology, protein expression and purification technologies. The company was founded by Donald Comb in 1974 and is headquartered in Ipswich, MA.

Qiagen Beverly, Inc. produces reagents, kits and assays enables customers worldwide to transform patient treatment and life science research. Its products include xmal, mapl, taqiT, wgs ligase, sall, xhol and bamhi. The company was founded by Christopher Benoit and Stephen Picone in 2006 and is headquartered in Beverly, M A.