Foundation Partners

Thank you to our partners who have helped make The Clearity Foundation possible.

 

Royal Neighbors is a non-profit insurance organization dedicated to supporting our members by providing value-added benefits and opportunities for our members to give back to their communities. Royal Neighbors is not a typical fraternal benefit society. Or an ordinary insurance firm. Since 1895, we have held true to our mission to support women and those they care about by offering insurance coverage, member benefits, and the opportunity to connect and give back to their communities. The unique mission of giving back resonates well even today. Today, Royal Neighbors has nearly 220,000 members across the nation. This network operates in local community chapters, each independently making a difference. In the last 40 years alone our members have given $350 million in time and talent to their communities. www.royalneighbors.org

 

Blueprint Life Science Group works with emerging companies to establish investor and business relationships. We have a unique methodology wherein we integrate IR and BD capabilities into our client mandates and leverage a board of advisors to help formulate strategy and facilitate results. We believe this approach offers the ideal platform to bolster our clients overall profile in the life science community while simultaneously providing management teams with the most thorough pipeline of information to enable strategic decisions and produce meaningful relationships. http://www.bplifescience.com/

 

CMEA Capital is an early stage investor in many Life Sciences, Information Technology and Energy & Material firms. We believe the explosion in science over the last generation is a mere preamble to what lies ahead. Advances in our three focus areas will transform the way people around the globe live, work, treat their health and consume energy. We also believe tremendous rewards await the patient investor who can identify those discoveries and nurture them to maturity. Not an easy task, nor is it risk free. But after 21 years of success nurturing more than 145 emerging companies, we’ve developed a repeatable, transparent process for generating a competitive return for our investors. http://www.cmea.com/

 

Morphotek, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory and infectious diseases. Morphotek develops these antibodies through the use of its proprietary human antibody technologies, Human MORPHODOMA® and Libradoma™. Two of the company's mAb programs are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer with several others in preclinical development. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Eisai, Ltd., Morphotek has retained an independent workplace while benefiting from the ability to collaborate and actively exchange ideas with Eisai scientists in laboratories around the world. Morphotek's therapeutic antibodies and proprietary discovery technologies, combined with Eisai's research and commercial infrastructure, will help Eisai meet its human health care goal of satisfying unmet medical needs and increasing benefits to cancer patients around the world. http://www.morphotek.com/

 

McKesson Corporation has been taking care forward for the health care industry for more than 175 years. As the nation’s oldest and largest health care services company, they combine innovation, technology and process knowledge, strong relationships and a business approach based on their ICARE shared principles to give customers and partners the power to succeed.  In McKesson’s Advanced Diagnostic Management business, they work to simplify the system in order to realize the full power of advanced diagnostics.   It’s crucial for all those involved to know which tests are available, medically appropriate, and covered by individual health plans—in short, to understand the best choice of test at the right cost at the point of care. http://www.mckesson.com/diagnostics

 

5AM Ventures is dedicated to building and actively creating value in seed and early-stage life science companies, the 5AM team takes a diversified, hands-on and leading-edge investment approach to company building and return realization. In addition to leading investments and contributing as board members of its portfolio companies, 5AM is directly involved in company strategy, management recruiting, business development and fundraising and often takes on short-term operating roles. http://www.5amventures.com/

 

The mission of Exelixis is to develop novel therapies that make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients with cancer and other serious diseases.   A leader in translational medicine and aware that many of today's patients with cancer and other serious diseases have significant unmet medical needs, Exelixis has ten drugs in clinical trials each with a biomarker component that may lead to a companion diagnostic to better “match” patients with the appropriate drug.  Their drug candidates target multiple receptor tyrosine kinases simultaneously, as well as key components of downstream signaling pathways that play important roles in cancer and metabolic diseases.  http://www.exelixis.com/ 

 

Nektar Therapeutics is a leading biopharmaceutical company developing a robust pipeline of novel therapeutics based on its advanced polymer conjugate chemistry technology platform. Nektar also partners with the top biopharmaceutical companies to bring new products to market. To date, Nektar's technology and drug development expertise have enabled nine approved products for partners, which include leading biopharmaceutical companies. http://www.nektar.com/

Clarient is a leader in cancer diagnostics, dedicated to collaborative relationships with the healthcare community as they translate cancer discovery and information into better patient care. They are dedicated to providing clarity to a complex disease by using a number of technologies and approaches to help clients diagnose their cancer cases. They provide insight into what therapies that will work best for patients, and continue with follow-up and monitoring on these cases. http://www.clarientinc.com/

Goodwin Procter is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 900 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. We are a hard-driving, entrepreneurial and dynamic group, working tenaciously for clients whose problems and challenges we treat as our own. http://www.goodwinprocter.com/

With offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota, San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas, SLW is a premier provider of intellectual property services to high tech companies, universities and individual inventors nationwide. SLW provides many patent services, including client counseling, licensing, prelitigation advice, opinions and patent prosecution. SLW attorneys are experts in their respective fields and have experience in a variety of areas. http://www.slwip.com/

Ventana Medical is the world’s leading supplier of automated diagnostic systems to the anatomical pathology market. Our instrument and reagent systems are used in clinical histology, cytology, and drug discovery laboratories around the globe. Through automation and systems integration, Ventana is standardizing and optimizing the slide staining process, thereby helping pathologists recommend treatment solutions that deliver superior patient care.  Their customers consist of hospital-based histology labs, independent reference labs, medical research centers, and drug discovery laboratories of the largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the world.  http://www.ventanamed.com/

Porter Novelli Life Sciences is the only dedicated life science unit among the top 10 international public relations firms. Its team has demonstrated expertise in providing individualized communications counsel that is strategically and tactically crafted to meet the specific needs of each client. Known as the industry “big-tique,” it offers the services of a global agency with the client attention of a boutique for emerging to billion-plus dollar life sciences and health care companies. www.pnlifesciences.com

 

As one of the world's leading financial institutions, Smith Barney recognizes that, whatever your investment profile, objectives or timeline, every successful investment strategy begins with a plan. http://fa.smithbarney.com/mcmullen/

 

Credit Suisse Group is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.  http://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them.  Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati offices in Austin, Palo Alto, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C. and one in China with expertise in many practice areas. http://www.wsgr.com/

 

Taylor & Pond is an experienced interactive agency specializing in every aspect of web design, development, strategy and online branding. They partner with Client's to implement and create effective online solutions that can be integrated with effective SEM, social media presence and metrics. Please visit our website for more information: www.taylorpond.com