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Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

American Association for Cancer Research prints and publishes scientific journals including clinical cancer research, molecular cancer therapeutics, molecular cancer research, cancer epidemiology, and biomarkers and prevention. The company was founded on May 7, 1907 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences provides research services in the field of science and art. The private company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and has subsidiaries in Netherlands. The CEO of the Dutch company is Wilma de Koning.

The Hubrecht Institute is a research institute that focuses on fundamental, multidisciplinary research on healthy and diseased cells, tissues, and organisms. The location of the private company is in Utrecht, Netherlands. The institute encompasses 23 research groups dedicated to this mission.

International Society of Differentiation, Inc. engages in development, research and communication in the fields of cell and developmental biology, molecular biology and oncology. The company was founded by Jean Louis Auguste Brachet in 1971 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.