Boca Scientific Inc

PerkinElmer is a provider of scientific instruments, consumables and services to the pharmaceutical, biomedical, environmental testing and general industrial markets. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services products for the fields of life and analytical sciences, optoelectronics and fluid sciences. The company s life and analytical sciences division provides drug discovery, genetic screening, environmental and chemical analysis tools and instrumentation. Its optoelectronics division provides technology for biomedical imaging and industrial smart devices. The company s fluid sciences division works with aerospace, semiconductor processing and energy technology companies. PerkinElmer employs more than 8,000 people and serves customers in more than 125 countries. The company is headquartered in Wellesley, Mass.

AVI BioPharma is a biopharmaceutical company that develops drugs to treat life-threatening diseases using its patented third generation antisense technology. It has completed clinical trials with its NeuGene antisense drugs in more than 300 subjects, addressing cardiovascular restenosis, infectious diseases, cancer, polycystic kidney disease and drug metabolism. Its most advanced cardiovascular program is for restenosis, where it has completed Phase II trials, evaluating its drug, Resten-NG. AVI BioPharma is also in a Phase II clinical trial with a drug for Hepatitis C infection and its influenza A drug candidate has been confirmed to have efficacy against avian influenza H5N1 in preclinical studies. AVI BioPharma maintains a location in Portland, Ore.