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Monogram Biosciences develops and commercializes individualized medicines to help and improve the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Its products are also used by biopharmaceutical companies to develop new antiviral therapeutics and vaccines. The company provides clinical, scientific and logistic support for drug development projects. Its PhenoSense is a phenotypic HIV drug resistance test that allows health care professionals to review the level of susceptibility and resistance that a person has to antiretroviral drugs. The company s eTag assays enhance preclinical development of targeted therapies and improve clinical trial design. It also clarifies the choice of cancer therapies. Monogram Biosciences is located in South San Francisco, Calif.

Based in South San Francisco, Calif., GoAhead Solutions LLC is a business consulting and technology services company, specializing in workforce solutions. The company provides state-of-the-art recruiting and consulting services, professional software services and safety programs for its clients, partners and consultants. It also offers recruiting services in the field of infrastructure, communications and applications for the information technology sector. Its consulting services include management consulting, technology consulting, operations consulting and supply chain consulting. Its list of clients includes Accenture, Sun Microsystems, Sony Corp., Cognos Corporation and Nuasis Corp.

Theravance is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule medicines. It develops drugs for various therapeutic areas, including respiratory diseases, bacterial infections and gastrointestinal motility dysfunctions. The company emphasizes drug discovery on validated targets. Some of its research programs include telavancin, Bifunctional Muscarinic Antagonist-beta2 Agonist (MABA) and Horizon. It works in association with some of the leading pharmaceutical companies, such as Astellas Pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Gilead Sciences, ICOS Corporation, Merck & Company, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. Theravance additionally conducts various phases of clinical trails on animals to test the efficacy of drugs.