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Life Science Nation (LSN) was founded by Dennis Ford, CEO, in 2012 to bring a better sales and marketing awareness to the life science community. LSN’s goal is to educate scientists in the basic skills required to brand, message, and market their companies.

Before LSN, Dennis was the CEO of a company that pioneered a system for uncovering global institutional investors and gauging their appetite regarding investing in hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital (VC) funds. The methodology used to capture and curate this valuable data was developed in part by a research team that would cold call and canvass these investors. The team would conduct a one-on-one interview with each investor that uncovered any current investment mandates they had. This allowed them to identify exactly where the capital was and specifically who had the mandate to deploy it.

After working with fundraisers in the alternative finance space for six years, Dennis wanted to bring his expertise to the life sciences and channel this fundraising experience toward the goal of moving science forward. Dennis knew from his experience in the alternatives field that many institutional investors and family offices were starting to withdraw capital from funds due to a decade of sub-par returns, initiating a trend of direct investment. This dovetailed with an accelerating trend of philanthropic investment and a desire among many investors to eradicate diseases affecting their family, friends or other groups that they have an affinity towards.

Identifying who has capital and is a fit for your company is the conundrum of the life science arena. The life science industry is poised at the entryway of a new golden age.  The one factor holding back the life science explosion is lack of capital. Dennis’s vision led him to believe that LSN could expedite the capital-raising problem by identifying active life science investors seeking emerging biotech and medtech companies and creating in-depth profiles that detail their specific preferences.  This would allow scientist-entrepreneurs to identify investors based on fit for their stage and sector, thus greatly enhancing the results of their outbound fundraising campaigns.

Dennis sought to create a match.com-like sourcing platform for the life sciences.  He knew that he needed not only current, accurate, and actionable information on both of the constituent groups who would use the platform, but also a home for the data he had started to gather on early stage life science investors.

The Roche Translational and Clinical Research Center (TCRC) is part of the Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) organization, and will serve as the hub for pRED activities in North America, underscoring the center’s importance to pRED and Roche. The TCRC staff is comprised of highly experienced drug developers who are focused on early clinical development of Roche drug candidates. In addition to advancing Roche’s existing portfolio, the TCRC experts will aim to access external innovation by identifying collaborations ranging from very early discovery platforms through advanced stage molecules.

We build financial products so you can participate in the healthcare and life science economy. Companies, investors, consumers and entrepreneurs will have access to financial products to create and/or manage their financial exposure to healthcare and the life science sector.

Poliwogg's management team has extensive experience in finance, healthcare, foundations, government and investing. It combines that expertise with a passion for increasing and broadening investment in healthcare, the largest sector of the American economy.

In 2007, the university opened a 22,000 square foot Research Building that focuses on science and houses the Botulinum Research Center. The building, the first at UMass Dartmouth devoted entirely to research, strengthens an "Innovation Triangle" in southeastern Massachusetts that includes major research and development centers in New Bedford and Fall River.

This year marks 10 years of progress since Autism Speaks first opened its doors in 2005. As we move into our 11th year our goal is to significantly enhance autism services in every  community and push to get the groundbreaking ABLE Act , now the law of the land, implemented in all 50 states. Our dedicated field teams will be the ones heading this effort.

Thanks to the passion and generosity of our community, Autism Speaks has helped advance our understanding and treatment of autism in ways almost unimaginable ten years ago. 

Mercadyne Advisors LLC advises private and public companies regarding capital strategy, business strategy, board governance, and restructuring. 

Mercadyne enables public companies to maximize shareholder value by positioning the company’s capitalization, Board and enterprise such that Wall Street will reward them for their business. 

Mercadyne also provides private companies seeking capital and liquidity an alternative financing path to the conventional, strict venture capital-to-large IPO process. We provide these emerging growth companies with an alternative public offering (APO) or direct public offering (DPO), structure via a public vehicle or small IPO (SIPO) strategy.

We work with like-minded highly innovative people to develop meaningful medicines and create impactful health care solutions.

We are:

• - Provide comprehensive scientific, strategic, and regulatory support to plan, manage, and execute full development programs  
• - Formulate early development, clinical pharmacology and translational medicine strategies to fast-track preclinical development to POC
• - Improve decision making with an emphasis on quantitative analytics and use of modeling and simulation
• - Provide a fully capable and experienced drug development team, or individual components based on client needs

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate stem cell research to cure the major diseases of our time. Our programs are focused in three areas: 

• Directing critical, advanced stem cell research in its own laboratory and also supports advanced work in other leading institutions. 

• Developing the next generation of top stem cell scientists by training and supporting an elite group of post-doctoral research fellows. 

• Convening the preeminent annual translation stem cell research conference and an on-going series of programs for scientists, policymakers and the public.

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Biomedical research is gravitating towards 3D cell culture models and tissue printing. At n3D, we sell kits and services for 3D cell culture. Our core technology is the magnetization of cells, which can then be directed using magnetic forces. In this manner, we can either levitate or bioprint cells. These cultures are faster to assemble than other systems and easier to handle with magnets without losing samples. Check out our products and ourservices for more information on our technology, and how we can help you!