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Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason is a non-profit organization that operates as a medical research institute. It conducts reserach for eliminating autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis, and immune system diseases such as allergies and asthma. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Stemcentrx, Inc. develops life-changing therapies for cancer patients. It develops proprietary discovery platforms that yield unprecedented insight into the biology of tumors and are being exploited to develop potent new cancer drugs. The firm specializes in designing drugs to target cancer stem cells, which are the cells that cause cancer to spread throughout the body. The company was founded by Brian Christopher Slingerland, Daniel T. Reiner and Scott J. Dylla in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.