Jennifer Wu

Cigna Holding Co. engages in the provision of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance, and related products and services to businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and individuals, through its subsidiaries. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bloomfield, CT.

QuadraMed Corp. engages in the provision of end-to-end patient identification solutions, It focuses from issue identification and data cleansing to sophisticated probabilistic algorithm and biometric authentication. Its products include SmartID platform, SmartAccess and provider index. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Novartis International AG manages the Novartis Group. It provides administrative, financial, legal, and technical services. It also offers scientific consultation to the Group. The company was founded on December 13, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Nodality, Inc. develops bioinformatics tools to enhance drug development process. Its technology profiles signaling networks in single cells by multiparametric phospho-flow cytometry. The company was founded by Michael C. Needels, Omar D. Perez, Garry P. Nolan and Rodney Weldon Turner in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zyngenia, Inc. developed new class of bio-therapeutics. The company was founded by Joseph L. Amprey III, Carlos F. Barbas III and Peter Alec Kiener in 2008 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Angiocrine Bioscience, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based on its novel and proprietary e-cel® platform. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company is developing multiple e-cel therapies designed to repair damaged tissue from age-related degenerative disease of the musculoskeletal system, immune diseases that attack vessels and tissues, and ischemic diseases involving soft tissue, central nervous system, and the heart. The CEO of the company is Paul W. Finnegan.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. provides indemnity insurance and medicare extension programs. The firm offers medical and dental plans, pharmacy coverage, vision coverage and health savings accounts. The company was founded in 1937 and is located in Boston, MA.

CIGNA International Corp. provides life, accident, health, fire, marine and casualty insurance services. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

ConnectiCare, Inc. provides health plan services. It offers a range of products and services for businesses, municipalities, individuals, and those who are Medicare-eligible. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

US Food & Drug Administration operates agencies to protect health and human services. It protects and promotes public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, cosmetics, animal foods and feed and veterinary products. The company was founded by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley on 30th June, 1906 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.

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 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Inc. provides funding for research on myeloma treatment. It provides funding to laboratories worldwide, including compounds and approaches in clinical trials and pre-clinical studies. The firm also facilitates clinical trials through their affiliate organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The company was founded by Karen E. Andrews and Kathryn E. Giusti in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

The International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer operates as a professional society of influential scientists, academicians, researchers, clinicians, and government representatives. The non-profit company is based in Milwaukee, WI.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research provides research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. It offers Innovation programs, like cancer stem cell, innovation in target validation, and smarter imaging, Technology programs, like drug discovery, genome technologies, informatics and bio-computing, imaging translation, and tranformative pathology, and Translation programs. The company was founded by Calvin R. Stiller in December 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Warp Drive Bio, Inc. focused on proprietary genomic technology to discover drugs of natural origin. The firm deployed proprietary platforms Genome Mining and Small Molecule Assisted Receptor Targeting (SMART) to discover and develop novel molecules addressing new pharmacologic mechanisms. The company was founded by Gregory L. Verdine, George McDonald Church, and James A. Wells in 2012 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Refuge Biotechnologies, Inc. develops therapeutic cells. It is leveraging gene engineering technologies known as CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) to develop therapeutic cells that are programmed to make decisions inside the patient’s body. The firms programs include RB-1916, RB-H21 and RB-M1. The company was founded by Stanley Qi, David R. Parkinson and Bing C. Wang and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

The University of Maryland Biopark operates as a bio-medical research center. The private company is based in Baltimore.

Pierian Biosciences LLC operates as a diagnostic development and laboratory service company. It offers ChemoINTEL, a functional multi-parametric chemosensitivity assay measuring the real-time kinetic molecular and morphologic apoptotic response in isolated tumor cells; and ImmunoINTEL, a flow cytometry-based platform delivering phenotypic characterization and quantitative functional interrogation of tumor and immune populations within a tumor sample and relevant tissues. The company is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

Learning Undefeated, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides STEM education opportunities for underserved communities. The non-profit company is based in Gaithersburg. The American company's flagship education program features mobile STEM labs that have provided hands-on learning opportunities to more than 200,000 K-12 students in 18 states since 2003. The company also operates several other celebrated STEM education programs including the Young Science Explorers program, a summer camp for middle school students, and the Advancing Tomorrow's Leaders in STEM (ATLAS) college and career exploration program. Learning Undefeated is driving race and gender equity in STEM through experiential and deep-impact learning experiences for students from under-resourced communities.