Frank Taffy

Forest Laboratories, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of branded forms of drug products. Its products include Bystolic, which is used to decrease heart rate and myocardial contractility; Daliresp, which is used to reduce the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation; Linzess, which is used in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and chronic idiopathic constipation; and Namenda, which is used in the treatment of moderate to severe dementia. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Emtora Biosciences, Inc. operates as a drug development company which focuses on disease treatment and prevention through agents that modulate the mTor pathway in mammals. It produces drugs to slow the aging process and its efficacy in treating age-related diseases. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Helocyte, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of immunotherapies for the prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus or CMV (cancer and infectious disease). It focuses on developing PepVax, a HLA-restricted single antigen peptide vaccine for controlling CMV in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and Triplex. The company was founded by Donald J. Diamond in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vuja De Sciences, Inc. is engaged in biotechnology services. The company was founded by David Warshawsky, Rick Lampe, Robert E. Hurst and Raphael Nir and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.