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| Company | Description | Status |
Stage / Year |
| BIKAM Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Novel small molecule therapeutics for ophthalmic diseases |
Private |
Start-up / 2007* |

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Novel drug delivery devices for the respiratory drug market |
Private |
Early / 2007* |
iVital, Inc. |
Develops weight loss surgery clinics |
Private |
Seed / 2007* |

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Develops novel molecular diagnostics with broad applications in infectious disease |
Private |
Start-up / 2007* |
 |
Developing modified form of heparin to ameliorate cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury following myocardial infarction. |
Private |
Start-up / 2006* |
 |
Medical malpractice insurance carrier focused on select markets with tort reform |
Private |
Start-up / 2006* |
 |
Novel antibiotics using patented bacterial RNA targets to treat pathogens resistant to existing drugs |
Private |
Seed / 2006* |

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Specialty pharmaceuticals for dermatology based on proprietary drug delivery technologies |
Private |
Early / 2006* |
 |
Novel anti-inflammatory agents based on endogenous mediators of inflammation resolution |
Private |
Seed / 2005* |

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Non-invasive monitor to measure blood glucose from the conjunctiva of the eye |
Private |
Start-up / 2005* |

Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc. |
Institutional pharmacy serving skilled nursing facilities |
Private |
Early / 2005* |
 |
Provides services to acute psychiatric patients |
Private |
Seed / 2004* |
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Medicare Advantage healthcare provider for frail and elderly nursing facility patients |
Private |
Seed / 2004* |
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Therapeutics that target hypoxic cells to treat cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia |
IPO 2005 |
Early / 2003 |
 |
Devices to treat varicose veins by sclerosing the saphenous vein |
Private |
Early / 2003* |
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Devices that treat Alzheimer's disease by draining stagnant cerebrospinal fluid from the brain |
Private |
Later / 2003* |
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Catheter-based devices to treat occluded arteries |
Acquired by Johnson & Johnson, 2005 |
Later / 2002* |
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Developer of chip-based instruments and reagents for molecular diagnostics |
Acquired by Becton Dickinson, 2006 |
Early / 2002* |
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Developer of advanced materials, techniques and implant systems for spine surgery | Private |
Start-up / 2002 |
 |
Utilizes engineered bioassays to identify new drug candidates which regulate gene expression |
Private |
Start-up / 2002* |
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Small molecule therapeutics for genetic disorders
|
IPO 2007 |
Seed / 2002*
|
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Outpatient clinics providing primary care for veterans and indigent patients
|
Private |
Early / 2002*
|
 |
Vaccine development |
Private |
Seed / 2002*
|
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Development and manufacture of protein microarrays |
Acquired by Invitrogen Corporation, 2004 |
Seed / 2001* |
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Consumer focused applied genomics |
IPO 2005 |
Start-up / 2000
|
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Specialized imaging and drug delivery |
Private |
Early / 2000*
|
 |
Site management organization for clinical trials of neuropsychiatric drugs
|
Private
|
Start-up / 1999* |
 |
Long-term acute care facilities |
Acquired by Select Medical Corporation, 2005 |
Start-up / 1999*
|
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Cellular and proteomics approaches to target validation for drug development |
Private |
Seed / 1998* |
 |
Novel technologies for immunodiagnostics
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Acquired by QIAGEN N.V., 2004 |
Start-up / 1998* |

(formerly Emergency Medical Systems) | Devices to assist in the resuscitation of victims of sudden cardiac arrest |
Acquired by Zoll Medical Corporation, 2004 |
Early / 1998* |