Richard Lesniewski

Madison Vaccines, Inc. develops vaccines for patients with prostate cancer. It is also developing a sensitivity test to identify those patients who will derive clinical benefit from these vaccines. The firm develops immunological therapies in patients with minimal residual disease, and for whom the mechanism of action of vaccines is ideally suited. The company was founded by Richard R. Lesniewski and Douglas G. McNeel in 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

DNASTAR, Inc. is a bioinformatics software company that has been innovating since 1984. The private company is based in Madison, WI. The company's flagship product, Lasergene, provides a comprehensive software solution for life science researchers.

Scarab Genomics LLC specializes in providing the most robust bacterial fermentation host for general/routine recombinant protein expression and nucleic acid production. The private company is based in Madison, WI and was founded by Trevor M. Twose. The company's Clean Genome® technology reduces the mutation rate to almost zero, even under the most stressful conditions. Scarab Genomics offers Clean Genome® LowMut T7, which provides a T7 promoter in the genome for clients wishing to use this expression option rather than the recommended synthetic T5 promoter in the pSX2 vector. Scarab Genomics also offers an insertion sequence (IS) detection kit that tests for the presence of all known E. coli IS elements in any DNA sample of interest.