Peter Harlech Jones

BioReliance Corp. provides testing and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. It provides outsourced services to customers from most healthcare disciplines, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. The firm also provides safety testing services focused on the rapidly growing biologics sector of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company enables emerging and clinical stage companies who may lack the staff, expertise and financial resources to conduct many aspects of product development in-house. BioReliance was founded by Charles E. Bender in 1947 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

AGC Biologics, Inc. develops therapeutic proteins for early clinical trials. The firm offers integrated cGMP manufacturing services using microbial fermentation and mammalian cell culture processes. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.