A myriad of organizations and companies are contributing to the momentum for Greater Kansas City's emerging life sciences business sector. The life science companies listed below comprise the existing life sciences infrastructure in the Kansas City metropolitan area. To add your organization to this list, contact Sharon Newman. Through a spirit of collaboration, the non-profit Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute (KCALSI) serves as the umbrella organization for the Kansas City area life sciences initiative, helping transform the Kansas City area into a center for excellence in life sciences research and development.

LIFE SCIENCES COMPANIES

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AAI Pharma operates a 30,000 square foot laboratory and office facility in Shawnee, Kansas, that offers bioanalytical services. Utilizing scientific know-how and sophisticated instrumentation, the staff at AAI's Shawnee facility analyzes drug candidates in biological samples for pharmacokinetic and bioavailability studies. AAI enjoys an excellent reputation earned by its diligent scientific and technical staff performing hundred of studies for more than 25 years. www.aaidevelopment.com

Acceleration is a GMP/GLP compliant Contract Research Organization.  Offering a variety of analytical services from investigational/problem solving, release of final product, stability, GMP warehousing, sample management, product labeling, primary/secondary packaging for clinical supplies. Clinical supplies by powder in a capsule/vial. We pride ourselves on adjusting services to individual client’s needs. www.accelerationkc.com

Advanced Clustering Technologies is a provider of high performance computing equipment, specializing in Beowulf clusters and Linux-based servers and workstations. We simplify the purchasing process by utilizing a knowledgeable sales staff and offering completely customized configurations. Our goal is to provide superior service and the best high performance computing hardware available. For a wide range of Linux-based servers and high performance computing options, we invite you to browse the products and services we offer. For information on a more customized cluster configuration or for questions regarding our product line and services, call 866-802-8222 or send an e-mail to info(at)advancedclustering.com.   www.advancedclustering.com

Agri-Laboratories, LTD Agri-Laboratories was founded in St. Joseph in 1985 and is a national distributor of animal healthcare products. Agri-Laboratories began in St. Joseph to distribute products for animal pharmaceutical companies in the region. Agri-Laboratories recently expanded their warehouse operation and employs 37. www.agrilabs.com/popup.html

Albaugh was founded in St. Joseph in 1983 and employs 41. Albaugh manufactures herbicides for commercial and residential use. Albaugh recently completed a $2,300,000 expansion in St. Joseph that added 14 new employees.
Alburtylab is a for-profit scientific enterprise using a depth of experience in bioaerosol research and development, and the customized facilities of the laboratory, to efficiently solve customers’ problems. Synergizing resources with customers’ needs is the key to addressing challenges as quickly and effectively as possible.

Alburtylab’s primary capabilities are in air sampler research, development, and testing. These capabilities are applied to homeland security and defense applications, as well as environmental, medical/pharmaceutical and agricultural applications. Current work being undertaken at Alburtylab includes virtual cyclone concentrator (VCC) R&D for concentration of micron-sized aerosols, evaluation and optimization of aerosol samplers, investigation of particles and bioaerosols in the Earth Boundary Sublayer at ground level, and pharmaceutical particle engineering. For more information contact David S. Alburty at 816-619-3374 or info@alburtylab.com   www.alburtylab.com

Analytical Bio-Chemistry (ABC) Laboratories, Inc. is a GLP and CGMP-compliant contract laboratory that supports pharmaceutical and chemical product development with a wide array of analytical, radiosynthesis and testing services. From its inception in 1968, ABC Laboratories has been dedicated to solving scientific problems and providing expert analytical chemistry services to businesses required to meet government health and safety regulations. In 2008, the company will celebrate its 40th anniversary and expand into a new 90,000 square-foot laboratory facility at the University of Missouri Discovery Ridge Research Park in Columbia, Missouri .  www.abclabs.com

Aptuit is a pharmaceutical service company that conducts research, development and manufacturing on a contract basis for both large and small innovators. Our mission is to engineer a better drug development process to serve these two very different clients equally well but in very different ways. Aptuit is assembling a complete suite of services from discovery to proof-of-concept and constructing the related manufacturing services from discovery to launch. Along the way, we are opportunistically inventing and acquiring novel technologies and services that allow our clients to differentiate their drug development programs. Scientific Operations covers our discovery to proof-of-concept services, the complete suite of services has been assembled in North America, Europe, and Asia. Clinical Operations is our related manufacturing services from discovery to launch and we are building and buying these capabilities in competitive cost environments. Aptuit was founded in 2004 by a group of industry experts with extensive market experience and a track record of building a similar, highly successful business through acquisition and investment. For more information visit www.aptuit.com

Bayer has long demonstrated a strong commitment to the Kansas City area, which is home to Bayer CropScience's Core Technology Center and Bayer HealthCare's Animal Health Division. Bayer Animal Health conducts research, develops, manufactures and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals and insecticides for livestock and companion animals. Advantage® flea control for cats and dogs; K9 Advantix®, a mosquito, tick and flea control for dogs; and Baytril® are the top-selling animal health products. Shawnee, Kansas serves as North American headquarters. www.bayer-ah.com

Bayer CropScience LP is the business of Bayer CropScience, which has its global headquarters in Monheim, . Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 6 billion, is one of the world's leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 19,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries. Bayer CropScience LP in the has its business headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC . Sites in Kansas City, Mo. , and Stilwell, Kansas , comprise the company's Core Technology Center. www.bayercropscience.us

Beckloff Associates, Inc., a Cardinal Health company, designs and implements scientific and regulatory strategies that help companies efficiently and effectively achieve regulatory approval for drugs, biologics, and medical devices. www.beckloff.com

Biomune Company is a leading U.S. manufacturer of vaccines and bacterins for the animal health industry. Since its inception in 1988, the company’s rapid growth has been marked by technology breakthroughs and new product introductions such as Layermune® SE , the world’s first licensed Salmonella enteritidis vaccine for poultry that is considered the world’s standard.  www.biomunecompany.com 

BioZyme was founded in St. Joseph in 1945 and employs 20. BioZyme manufactures cattle feed and vitamins/mineral supplements for animals, primarily cattle. BioZyme has a global presence in the animal supplements industry. www.biozymeinc.com

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. is a subsidiary of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation and part of the Boehringer Ingelheim worldwide group of companies. Within the business area of Animal Health, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.—with sites in St. Joseph, Mo.; Elwood, Kan.; and Sioux City and Ames, Iowa—is classified as a worldwide center of competence in biologicals research, development and manufacturing. The company is an innovative supplier of a broad line of cattle, swine, equine and small animal products. www.bi-vetmedica.com

Brown Medical Industries is a recognized innovator in developing and marketing life-enhancing medical devices that incorporate cutting-edge research and manufacturing excellence. As an ISO 9001-certified company, we continually improve our quality systems and products while creating a work environment that stimulates our dedicated and disciplined workforce. Through investment in our company, community, and environment, we embody the values of work, health and family, thereby maximizing profitability, fostering growth and embracing social responsibility. Improving life is our passion. www.brownmed.com

CSS Analytical Co Inc. located in Shawnee Kansas company has been in the business of Mass Spectrometry since 1990, specializing in manufacturing products to enhance mass spectrometry instruments - making them better, faster, smarter in support of all industries including life sciences, environmental, pharmaceutical, natural products and chemical. CSS Analytical started business focusing on Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS), but over the years has diversified into the Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) side of the market. While we continue to design and manufacture our products, we also continue the process of expanding our LCMS contract service side of the company. We are currently running Bottled Water Samples for a well known beverage company - checking for the presence of bio-active pesticides. We routinely run experiments to help determine contaminants in products or byproducts of several customers. Though a small "shop", we have access to brilliant minds (consultants) in the environmental business, bio-medicine and other life sciences industries. Our web site, www.cssco.com will soon reflect the contract services side of the business in a more predominant fashion.

Cerner Corporation is taking the paper chart out of healthcare, eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. Cerner's world headquarters in North Kansas City, Mo. , employees more than 6,000 people working in Kansas City , around the nation and around the world. Please visit Cerner at www.cerner.com

Clinical Reference Laboratory, based in Lenexa, Kan., provides complete testing services for insurance, forensic toxicology, corporate wellness programs and clinical trials. Established in 1979 as a research and development facility, CRL distinguishes itself by offering personalized service, rapid turn-around time, innovative IT systems and accurate testing technology. www.crlcorp.com

CritiTech is a spin-off company from the Higuchi Biosciences Center at the University of Kansas. It produces micron and nano-particle sized pharmaceutical compounds for enhanced drug delivery and development. CritiTech’s technology can increase the rate of dissolution of drugs for improved delivery, alter the delivery mechanism, coat drugs for taste masking or delayed release, and coat implantable medical devices such as stents. CritiTech has licensed patents from the University of Kansas and in addition, has internally expanded it own patent base. www.crititech.com

CyDex, Inc., a privately owned specialty pharmaceutical company located in Lenexa, KS , focuses on developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products that utilize enabling drug delivery technologies. CyDex’s lead technology, CAPTISOL®, a modified cyclodextrin, can significantly improve the solubility and stability of drugs. CAPTISOL has broad applicability for parenteral, oral, inhalation and ophthalmic uses. CyDex is developing proprietary Captisol-Enabled formulations of pharmaceutical products that provide significant product differentiation and meet unmet patient needs. www.cydexinc.com

Disposable Instrument Company manufactures custom metal disposable medical components and devices, as well as a line of standard wound drainage trocars for the medical manufacturer. As components, our devices contribute high value through overall quality including unsurpassed sharpness, smoothness and cleanliness, freedom from manufacturing defects and corrosion, outstanding appearance and reasonable prices. All of our products are manufactured to our customer’s specifications and require additional components, packaging and sterilization before they are ready for distribution or sale to doctors or hospitals. In addition to wound drainage trocars, the company manufactures aluminum and stainless-steel products such as laparoscopic trocars, Steinmann pins, K-wires, obturators, tunnelers, introducers, passers, guide pins, bone drills, special suture needles, and cannula/trocar assemblies. The company also offers prototyping services for product development.  www.disposableinstrument.com

Durrie Vision is regarded as one of the leading eye care centers in the United States. Our surgeons have helped thousands of people enjoy better vision. To maintain their reputation as one of the world leaders in vision care and to expand their knowledge of this quickly growing field, the doctors and staff of Durrie Vision are continually studying the latest techniques, procedures and technology. Durrie Vision is recognized as a center of excellence by major pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Our surgeons are continuously sought out by manufacturers to conduct clinical trials on new medications and technologies. Durrie Vision Research normally conducts 20 - 30 clinical trials a year, treating over research patients. Durrie Vision is located in Overland Park and has 32 employees. www.durrievision.com

Electroformed Stents, Inc., ESI, was formed in 1998 to capitalize on a patented process for producing stents by electroforming. Stents are expandable cylindrical sleeves primarily used with balloon angioplasty to open blocked coronary arteries. Since 1998 ESI has expanded its patent protection and products to include an electroplated porous layer for drug eluting stents and a unique pleated stent for the treatment of neurovascular aneurysms. www.EStent.com

Enturia, a privately-held company that manufactures an antiseptic called ChloraPrep, a topical solution composed of chlorhexidine gluconate and isopropyl alcohol, designed to replace iodine-based products currently used to prepare patients' skin for catheters, IVs, and general surgical procedures. ChloraPrep is a near gel-like substance that does not dry, providing antimicrobial action lasting 48 hours. Iodine preparations are effective for only 2-3 hours. Locally, Saint Luke's Hospital and the University of Kansas Medical Center use Medi-Flex products. www.medi-flex.com

Eriban Wurst, Inc. is a leading provider of health sciences marketing and business consulting services. The firm works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and animal health companies. Capabilities include market research, strategic planning, and full-service marketing communication programs and implementation. Market research projects include primary and secondary research to clarify and define a product's fit and appeal in the marketplace, focus groups, competitive analysis, pricing models, and reimbursement issues. Strategic planning encompasses building the blueprint for a product's life cycle, regulatory strategy, competitive issues, clinical opportunities, expanded indications-formulations-populations, launch preparation, and out-license valuation improvement. Marketing communications support includes design, production, distribution, training programs, meetings, web sites, project management, media selection. Phone: 816-753-5329. Web: www.eribanwurst.com

Felton Medical, Medical is a distributor of medical devices and nutriceuticals for live stock. (913-599-5959 ext. 101) www.feltonmedical.com

Fleishman-Hillard is one of the world's leading public relations firms, with one of its largest offices based in Kansas City. Headquartered in St. Louis, the firm operates globally through its 83 owned offices. Fleishman-Hillard's industry-renowned life sciences team includes 300 specialists from farm to pharma and spans from Boston to Beijing. Whether the client is a start-up venture, a not-for-profit organization, or a global company, Fleishman-Hillard uses strategic communications to deliver what is most valued: meaningful, positive, and measurable impact on company performance. Fleishman-Hillard's Kansas City team is replete with seasoned communications professionals with extensive backgrounds in food, agriculture, biotechnology and health care. The office offers a wide range of capabilities including clinical trial consulting, crisis preparedness, media relations, food safety, consumer marketing, corporate change, design/interactive and multicultural communications. The Kansas City office represents many of Kansas City's largest companies as well as companies on both coasts and around the globe. www.fleishman.com

Flint Hills Scientific, LLC (FHS) is a development-stage company that has technologies and advancements related to portable or implantable intelligent medical devices (both therapeutic and diagnostic/monitoring), including software, firmware and hardware. In addition, the Company has generated novel and proprietary algorithms for the analysis of biological signals and has applied them to develop solutions to important problems in the Life Sciences. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, FHS continues to develop and deliver rapid, practical, and cost-effective solutions to address many important unmet medical needs. www.fhs.lawrence.ks.us

Fort Dodge Animal Health, headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., is a leading manufacturer and distributor of prescription and over-the-counter animal healthcare products for livestock, companion animals, swine and poultry industries in the North American and international markets. Fort Dodge is a division of American Home Products Corporation, one of the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare products companies. http://www.wyeth.com/divisions/fort_dodge.asp

The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc. (GPL). GPL is a specialty clinical reference laboratory located in Lenexa, Kansas. The mainstream laboratory operations are focused in biochemical genetics, however many other specialty testing are offered as well. The company has an active Research and Development unit and is always looking for talents that may be a fit for the development of clinical tests. Contact: The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc., Cristian Saez, PhD, Associate Director, Laboratory Operations, Tel: 913-341-8949 (Ext.149),  www.greatplainslaboratory.com.

Inovatia Laboratories, LLC, is an independent research and development, consulting, and testing laboratory. The company’s core competencies lie within the fields of analytical and synthetic chemistry and are applied to a broad range of chemical systems ranging from manufacturing to the human body. Inovatia offers problem-solving services such as product and process analysis, failure analysis, deformulation, and material identification to a variety of customers. Its solution creation services include basic and applied research, custom chemical synthesis, and technology development. In addition, Inovatia operates a full-service environmental testing laboratory that serves consulting, engineering, and industrial clients nationwide. www.inovatia.com

Intervet, Inc., Engaged in the research and development, production and marketing of veterinary products. www.intervet.com

Kansas City Cancer Centers (KCCC) is an integrated medical and radiation oncology practice comprised of 35 physicians, 10 Nurse Practitioners, and 300 employees. There are 11 Kansas City Cancer Center locations across metropolitan Kansas City . KCCC's integrated clinical research program offers more than 130 protocols for patient enrollment. These protocols include both national and US Oncology sponsored trials as well as investigator-initiated trials. In 2004, KCCC accrued more than 300 patients to these and similar trials, and screened more than 1,000 patients. In addition to cancer treatment, KCCC provides the outpatient and physicians component for the nationally recognized Kansas City Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. www.kccancercenters.com

LifeLine Foods is a vertically integrated cooperative that has built an organization where its stockholders are committed to quality; reliability and long-term relationships based on trust. This ownership model is a unique feature in the industry where LifeLine is owned and operated by a Missouri-nonstock cooperative association, AgraMarke Quality Grains. All of the grain received at the facility comes from the members of the company who are located in the states of Kansas , Nebraska , Missouri and Iowa . Today, LifeLine Foods is leading the industry in identity preservation with the ability to track the grain from the initial seed selection to the finished product. All products manufactured at the LifeLine Foods facility are AIB inspected and Kosher certified. The facility converts the identity preserved corn received into the following products: corn meal, corn flour, corn grits, yellow & white masa, hominy, pregel corn flour, muffin coating and whole grain corn meal. www.lifeline-foods.com

The Mattson Jack Group(MJG) was founded in 1986 to provide strategic services to the healthcare industry, particularly pharma and biotech. MJG consists of over 100 professionals, with offices in St. Louis, Kansas City, Philadelphia , Phoenix , Parsippany (NJ), Tokyo , and London (serving Europe ). MJG is comprised of staff with significant commercial and scientific expertise. In addition to practical experience with different pharmaceutical companies, senior scientific and commercial staff members have advance degrees. www.mattsonjack.com

MidAmerica Neuroscience Research Foundation, which is affiliated with the MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996 by local physicians to conduct research that could lead to new therapies to treat neurological disease, such as multiple sclerosis. The Foundation also is doing research into sleep disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, vascular dementia and Restless Legs Syndrome. www.neurokc.com

Midwest Bio Services, LLC is a new biotech service company based in Overland Park, Kansas with a mass spectrometry facility opened in May, 2004. Midwest Bio Services offers protein identification by tandem mass spectrometry to research laboratories at Universities and biotechnology companies. www.midwestbioservices.com

Novartis, provides quality products and services that improve the productivity of animal agriculture, focusing on disease prevention through effective application of diagnostic technologies, research, development, manufacturing, marketing and professional consulting. www.novartis.com

O'Dell Service Co Inc.  - a Kansas City area company providing maintenance, service, and repairs on a wide range of laboratory equipment including low-temp refrigeration applications, incubators, lab washers, autoclaves, orbital shakers, freeze dryers, environmental chambers, lab ovens, water baths and more. The company serves as factory authorized service technicians for Revco, Fisher Scientific, Forma, Jewitt, Labconco, VRW, Sanyo, Baxter and many others. O'Dell understands the sensitive nature of work and exacting precision required in today's laboratories. They service an area roughly from St. Joe to Springfield and Manhattan to Columbia with customers including MU, KU, UMKC, KUMC, K-State, Boehringer-Ingelheim, USDA, Community Blood, Quintiles, PRA and many more. More information can be found at odellservice.com or you can contact Aaron Benson at (816)726-6339.

P.E.T.Net Kansas City produces and distributes radiopharmaceuticals used in a diagnostic procedure called positron emission tomography, or PET. This technique helps doctors diagnose and treat cancer and heart disease. Phone: (913) 310-9270.

Pharmion, a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to expanding the therapeutic options available to hematologists and oncologists. They work with leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop and market innovative products that address unmet medical needs. Their Science & Education Division is headquartered in Overland Park, KS. www.pharmion.com

Phoenix Scientific, Inc., located in St. Joseph, MO, has become the fastest growing, most advanced veterinary pharmaceutical plant in the United States, and the industry's leading generic animal health pharmaceutical company. Phoenix Scientific, Inc. manufactures over eighty formulations in various dosage forms; sterile solutions, sterile suspensions, oral liquids, pastes, tablets, boluses, capsules and powders for both companion and economic animals. Phone: (816) 364-3777. http://www.phnx-sci.com/

Physicians Reference Laboratory, headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. , offers complete clinical and anatomic pathology services for physicians, hospitals, managed-care organizations, businesses and other healthcare facilities throughout the central . Additional services include central laboratory services for the clinical trials industry and PRL is a SAMHSA certified drug testing laboratory. www.prlnet.com

ProGene Biomedical, Inc. is a small privately held biotechnology company located in Lenexa, Kan., operating two divisions: IBT Reference Laboratory and ProGene Corporation. IBT, which was founded in 1983, is a clinical laboratory that performs esoteric allergy and immunology testing. Recently, IBT also entered into the environmental testing field. ProGene Corp., founded in 1986, is an FDA-licensed diagnostic company that develops and manufactures reagents and kits used by physicians and other laboratories. www.ibtreflab.com

ProPharma Group serves the validation, compliance, and technical services needs of clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We are located in the Kansas City metropolitan area and serve companies across the United States. Our validation professionals include electrical, mechanical and computer engineers, chemists, microbiologists, and other specialists. We support our clients as they negotiate complex quality and compliance issues using an individually-designed project approach. www.propharmagroup.com

Proteon Therapeutics, LLC is an early stage biopharmaceutical company based in Kansas City that is focused on the commercialization of Prot-201, its unique, proprietary permanent vasodilatation drug candidate. The use of Prot-201 will improve outcomes and reduce costs for a variety of cardiovascular procedures, including hemodialysis access, peripheral angioplasty, and bypass grafting. www.proteontherapeutics.com

Purina Mills Purina located in St. Joseph in 1968 and employs 40. Purina manufactures animal feeds for a global market. Purina recently completed a $4,000,000 expansion that will add equipment to its dog food production operation. http://www.purinamills.com/

Quality Research Services provides guidance and assistance to organizations involved in the drug development process. QRS personnel have expertise in several areas including, but not limited to, cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease, analgesia, wound care, inflammation, clinical pharmacology and project management. QRS personnel have experience in creating protocols, manuscripts, clinical study reports, investigators’ brochures and clinical sections of INDs and NDAs. In addition to providing expertise in the arena of clinical development, QRS can provide clients with professional resources experienced in regulatory affairs, chemical synthesis, manufacturing, toxicology, data management, statistical analyses, market research, and intellectual property assessment. Phone: (913) 541-1445.

Quintiles Transnational Corporation is the market leader in providing a full range of integrated product development and commercialization solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. It is also a leader in the electronic data interchange and healthcare informatics industry, providing healthcare policy consulting to governments and others worldwide. Quintiles recently opened Quintiles Japan Pharma Center, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. Believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, the center provides Japanese pharmaceutical companies with the services needed to successfully enter the U.S. market. www.quintiles.com

QVM Services, LLC specializes in providing Quality Management Systems Implementation, Regulatory Support, Commissioning & Qualification activities and Training Programs to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firms nationwide. Our Engineers and Scientists focus on your process and product needs to provide cost effective solutions designed to enhance your quality and compliance programs. http://www.qvmservices.com 

SAFC Biosciences, headquartered in Lenexa, Kan., develops, manufactures and markets cell culture reagents and services targeted for commercial firms involved in developing and producing biopharmaceuticals using mammalian and insect cell culture methods. For more than 30 years, JRH has supplied a full range of cell culture products for use in the global discovery, development, scale-up, licensing and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics. www.safcbiosciences.com

Sanofi-aventis is dedicated to improving, enhancing and extending human life through the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products. Its major products are among the world's leading therapies for allergic, metabolic and central nervous system disorders and cardiovascular and infectious diseases. Website: http://en.sanofi-aventis.com

Teva Neuroscience, LLC, a Kansas City-based subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, markets COPAXONE®, the fastest-growing therapy in the United States for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Teva Neuroscience and Teva Pharmaceuticals have committed $200 million in neurological research over the next three years. Additionally, Teva Neuroscience plans to branch into other areas of neurology. www.tevaneuroscience.com

UBC - United Biosource Corporation, is an international provider of Phase II-IV clinical development services and post marketing studies to the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics industries. UBC’s primary expertise is late-stage drug development. Their capabilities are twofold; assisting sponsors with product approvals and managing the post-approval process by the means of large streamlined studies, large simple safety studies, well-controlled programs, patient registries, patient-reported outcome studies, and life cycle management trials. UBC’s clinical development teams have supported hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter medicines, enrolled over 220,000 patients in clinical trials, and managed over 50,000 study sites. Our scientists have designed almost 3,000 clinical protocols and have executed over 350 outcome studies and registries. www.unitedbiosource.com

VasoGenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., focused on critical cardiology needs, is engaged in the development of Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide, the body's natural cardioprotectant, initially to treat cardiac ischemia associated with myocardial infarction and secondly to treat congestive heart failure. Phone: (913) 888-4855. www.vasogenix.net

ViraCor Laboratories is a molecular diagnostic and research laboratory that specializes in serving physicians treating immunocompromised patients. ViraCor provides transplant programs nationwide and pharmaceutical research teams worldwide with rapid, accurate and robust assays for herpes, polyoma, hepatitis and adenoviruses, and protozoa and fungal pathogens. ViraCor collaborates with universities and other academic centers to license and develop new diagnostics for the prevention and treatment of diseases. www.viracor.com

Worldwide Clinical Research is one of the industry’s most trusted CROs, providing choices and flexibility, and specializing in reliable Phase I-IV service delivery, global access to enrolling sites and program-level therapeutic experience for biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. Our corporate headquarters are in Overland Park, KS and we have offices throughout Latin America, and our global partners in Europe, Australia, Asia and South Africa. Our experienced global therapeutic project teams provide scientific knowledge to our Sponsors for their clinical development programs. Proactive study management is key to ensuring our Sponsor’s success. Our overall goal is to ensure our clients get the experience that they require, when they need it. WWCR has managed global studies in multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, neurology, metabolic/auto-immune, pain and cardiovascular working with over 700 investigative sites. www.wwcr-cro.com

XenoTech, L.L.C., a University of Kansas Medical Center spin-off company, was formed to manufacture products and to provide services to guide the discovery and development of drugs and other consumable products, such as food additives, fragrances and cosmetics. XenoTech specializes in the development and application of in vitro techniques for examining the metabolism of drugs and other chemicals. www.xenotechllc.com