A peloton is a team of bicyclists who achieve great efficiency of motion through cooperative action. It is also the root of platoon, a nimble military unit with capabilities that exceed the sum of its component parts. Founded by Chairman of Biochemistry Steven L. McKnight of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Peloton Therapeutics represents a unique combination of innovative science, strong financial support from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), and seasoned investors and management. Working in close collaboration with scientists at UT Southwestern, Peloton is advancing a promising discovery and development pipeline, comprised of several small molecule-based programs, each with a distinct target and mechanism of action. Peloton's vision is to become a major biotech company in Dallas with a passion for discovering and developing novel cancer drugs.

AstraZeneca has always believed in science, inspires infinite possibilities, and puts science at the top of all work. AstraZeneca's strategically important core treatment areas, and are committed to exploring pathogenic mechanisms, treatment methods, and innovative drugs, so that science can change people's lives and bring it to the medical industry Significant changes.

Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Ltd., part of Danaher Corp., is a company headquartered in Little Chalfont, UK, that engages in manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products. The firm was founded in 1997.

Founded in 1993 by Andrew Cousin, Amersham Corp. is a private equity firm located in Louisville, Colorado with additional offices in California, Florida, Texas and China.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sale of pharmaceuticals and nutritional products. The company operates in two segments, Pharmaceuticals, and Nutritionals. The Nutritionals segment is operated through the company's subsidiary Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (Mead Johnson). The Pharmaceuticals segment is made up of the global pharmaceutical and international consumer medicines business.

Discovery Partners International, Inc. (DPI) used to research laboratory looking to discovery pharmaceutical products. It was a small molecule and natural product based drug discovery company that offered collaborations and services complementing the internal capabilities of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical. Discovery Partners has actively contributed to dozens of drug discovery collaborations. The company had operations in United States and Europe. The company was founded in 1995 was headquartered in San Diego, CA

Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., is a company headquartered in Bingham Farms, MI, that manufactures and supplies pharmaceutical goods.

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited engages in the research, development, manufacture, import, sale, and marketing of pharmaceutical products. The company offers prescription drugs, OTC drugs, and quasi-drugs. Its principal products include Olmetec, Rezaltas, Calblock, and Mevalotin for cardiovascular diseases; Cravit for infectious diseases; Loxonin for bone/joint diseases; and Urief for urological diseases. The company also offers vaccines. In addition, the company is developing products for various diseases, which are under various clinical trial stages. Further, it manufactures and sells cosmetics, medical equipment, food, and beverages, as well as veterinary medicines; and manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates. Daiichi Sankyo primarily operates in Japan, North America, Europe, and India. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH manufactures pharmaceutical prodcuts. It offers human and animal health products. The company was founded by Albert Boehringer in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany.

Merck Serono SA operates as a holding company in the pharmaceutical field. It engages in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of therapeutic products for the treatment of human diseases. The company was founded on May 21, 1987 and is headquartered in Coinsins, Switzerland.

Zeneca is a British multinational pharmaceutical company focused on therapeutic oncology and cardiovascular products. Zeneca was established in June 1993 through a demerger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries. In 1999 Zeneca and Astra AB, a Sweden-based pharmaceutical company, merged to form AstraZeneca plc.

Schering Corp. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers products in the areas of allergy and respiratory, anti-infectives, foot care, hepatitis, skin disorders, and sun care. It is a subsidiary of Schering-Plough Corp. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NY.

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.

Glaxo Wellcome SA, a subsidiary of GSK Plc, is a company headquartered in Aranda de Duero, Spain. The firm manufactures and markets medicines.

Nexus Biosystems, Inc. engages in the development and provision of technologies and automation systems for pharmaceutical, biotech, agrochemical, and academic research institutions internationally. It offers Universal Store, a sample storage and retrieval system; IRORI technologies for directed sorting and cleaving of solid-phase combinatorial chemistry libraries and synthesis products; Crystal Farm, a family of protein crystallization, incubation, and imaging products; automation solutions to automate sorting for the synthesis, cleavage, and washing steps; and synthesis manager software that controls and runs the directed sorting approach to library synthesis, as well as provides a repository for chemical building blocks and reaction procedures. The company also provides automated sorting stations; the AutoWash-10K, which is designed for washing microreactors between diversity chemistry steps; IRORI Clevap Station that automates the solvent dispensing, cleavage, transfer, and dry down process; AccuCleave Stations that offer a means to cleave compounds in batches of 96 or 192; and accessories, including dry resin fillers, tag droppers, filling kits, capping stations, LED sorting indicators, combinatorial chemistry, and crystallographic services. Nexus Biosystems, Inc. was formerly known as IRORI Discovery, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Poway, California. As of July 25, 2011, Nexus Biosystems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Brooks Automation Inc.

PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of analytical instruments. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.