Biodesix is a data-driven diagnostic solutions company that provides lung cancer diagnostic testing and biopharma services. The company provides physicians with diagnostic tests for earlier disease detection, more accurate diagnosis, disease monitoring, and better therapeutic guidance, which may lead to improved patient outcomes. Biodesix discovers, develops, and commercializes multivariate protein diagnostics based on its proprietary mass spectrometry-based discovery platform. VeriStrat, a multivariate serum protein test, is Biodesix’s first product developed with this technology. The commercially available test provides oncologists with information to help them select between erlotinib and single-agent chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer patients. Tests are processed in Biodesix’s CLIA-certified laboratory and results are reported in less than 72 hours. In addition to developing novel diagnostics independently, the company also partners with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop companion diagnostics to improve the utility of therapeutic agents.

Virgin Instruments Corp. (doing business as SimulTOF Systems) is an American private company located in Marlborough, MA. The firm manufactures mass spectrometry products for biological and clinical research applications. It was founded in 2006 by Marvin Vestal and Christina Vestal.

Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of innovative tools and services to the life science research and clinical diagnostics markets. Founded in 1952, Bio-Rad has a global team of more than 6,500 employees and serves more than 85,000 research and industry customers worldwide through its global network of operations. Throughout its existence, Bio-Rad has built strong customer relationships that advance scientific research and development efforts and support the introduction of new technology used in the growing fields of genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, food safety, medical diagnostics, and more.

Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Lille is a private company headquartered in the United States. The firm operates hospital.

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) was founded on April 26, 1973, and is under the aegis of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply. Since our foundation, and with our partners from the National Agricultural Research System, we have taken on the challenge to develop a genuinely Brazilian model of tropical agriculture and livestock to overcome the barriers that limited the production of food, fiber, and fuel in our country. This effort has helped to change Brazil. Nowadays, our agriculture is one of the most efficient and sustainable ones in the planet. We have incorporated a wide area of formerly degraded Cerrado lands into our production systems; a region that now accounts for nearly 50% of our grain production. We have quadrupled the beef and pork supply and increased the chicken supply 22-fold. These are some of the achievements that took the country from the condition of basic food importer to one of the world's largest food producers and exporters.

Merck Millipore was the brand used for Merck's global life science business until 2015 when the company re-branded. It was originally formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010. Merck is a supplier to the life science industry. The Millipore Corporation was founded in 1954, and listed among the S&P 500 since the early 1990s, as an international biosciences company, known widely for its micrometer pore-size filters and tests. In 2015, Merck acquired Sigma-Aldrich and merged it with Merck Millipore. In the United States and Canada, the life science business is now known as MilliporeSigma.

Assistance Publique H��pitaux de Marseille is a private company headquartered in Marseille, France, specializing in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM) is an American company based in San Diego, California. It develops enabling molecular technologies, and highly sensitive laboratory genetic tests for NIPT. Sequenom's wholly owned subsidiarity, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (SCMM), offers multiple clinical molecular genetics tests to patients, including MaterniT21, plus a noninvasive prenatal test for trisomy 21, trisomy 18, and trisomy 13, and the SensiGene RHD Fetal RHD genotyping test.

Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris SA the company is headquartered in Paris, France.

PerSeptive Biosystems develops instrumentation systems and consumable products for the purification, analysis, and synthesis of biomolecules. It develops and markets instrument-based systems, reagents, software, and contract services to the life science industry and research community. Customers of PerSeptive Biosystems use these tools to analyze nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and proteins in order to make scientific discoveries, develop new pharmaceuticals, and conduct standardized testing. Founded in 1989, PerSeptive Biosystems is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Life Technologies Corporation.

At EMD Millipore, one of the top three investors in R&D in the Life Science Tools industry

Agena Bioscience is a molecular diagnostics company that develops and markets genetic reagents and analysis systems. Agena Bioscience's MassARRAY® System is a highly sensitive, cost-effective, mass spectrometry-based platform for high-throughput genetic analysis and is used in a range of clinical diagnostic and research fields such as infectious diseases, cancer profiling for solid tumors and liquid biopsies, inherited genetic disease testing, pharmacogenetics, agricultural genomics, and clinical research. The company's genetic platform delivers timely, accurate, and easy-to-interpret results, to improve decision-making and laboratory economics.

BASF AB supplies raw materials to paper, chemicals, and construction industries. Its products include construction chemical, crop protection products, dispersions and pigments, plastics, polyurethane systems and coating products. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Göteborg, Sweden.

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland provides healthcare services. It offers child life program, family outreach clinics, hand and microsurgery, parent infant programs, pastoral care, neurosurgery, injury prevention programs and respiratory care services. The company was founded by Bertha Wright in 1912 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, a subsidiary of The University of Texas at Austin, is an American company located in Austin, TX. The firm oversees college activities.

The University of California is the nation's best public university system, delivering top-notch research and innovation to California (and the world).