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Genentech· South San Francisco, California, United States
About GenentechWe're passionate about finding solutions for people facing the world's most difficult-to-treat conditions. That is why we use cutting-edge science to create and deliver innovative medicines around the globe. To us, science is personal.Making a difference in the lives of millions starts when you make a change in yours. If you’d like to join our team, view our openings at gene.com/careers. Our patient resource center is dedicated to getting patients and caregivers to the right resources. You can reach them at 1 (877) GENENTECH (436-3683)Monday-Friday, 6am-5pm PST or patientinfo@gene.com. Community Guidelines:1. We want to foster positive conversation around the issues we are passionate about. To that end, we remove profanity, content that contains threatening language, content that is aimed at private individuals, personal information, and repeated unwanted messages.2. Don’t mention any medicines by name — ours or anyone else’s.Because of the fair balance rules governing our industry, we cannot post any comments that reference any pharmaceutical brand, product, or service. Please do not mention any specific medicines by name, or include any links to third party sites in your comments.3. This isn’t the place to report or discuss side effects.This site is not intended as a forum for reporting side effects experienced while taking a Genentech product. Instead, you should report any side effects to Genentech Drug Safety at 1-888-835-2555. You can also report side effects of any prescription product directly to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or by visiting www.FDA.gov/medwatch.4. Don’t pitch your product or service.Please don't use our page as a place to promote your product or pitch your services. Please also avoid posting links to external sites. We reserve the right to remove any posts that are deemed promotional.
- Series unknown
- 18.2k employees
- Founded 1976
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Foundation Medicine· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Foundation Medicine is a global, patient-focused precision medicine company delivering high-quality, transformative diagnostic solutions in cancer and other diseases. We provide tests and solutions to transform care throughout a patient’s experience, from defining a diagnosis to determining the appropriate treatment to ongoing monitoring. We help accelerate the development of new personalized therapies by leveraging our vast knowledge of precision medicine, real world data and AI-powered tools, expanding the information our diagnostic solutions provide to enable improved outcomes for patients. Every day, we are inspired to think differently to transform the lives of people living with cancer and other diseases. For more information, visit us at www.FoundationMedicine.com.Community Guidelines: bit.ly/FMICommunityGuidelines
- Series B
- 1.8k employees
- Founded 2010
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Amyris· Emeryville, California, United States
Amyris is a vertically integrated biomanufacturing company that creates specialty molecules for a range of industries, including flavors and fragrances, advanced materials, beauty and personal care, food, and more. Using advanced fermentation technology, Amyris customizes, creates, and manufactures ingredients that enhance lives, protect ecosystems, and take products to the next level of performance.Amyris was founded in 2003 with a bold humanitarian vision to transform access to a lifesaving antimalarial compound using biotechnology. Now, with over two decades of proven commercial success, our proprietary platform is redefining the precision, consistency, and sustainability that is possible with renewable biological chemistry.
- Grant
- 997 employees
- Founded 2003
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CareDx, Inc.· Brisbane, California, United States
CareDx is a leading precision medicine diagnostics company advancing care in transplant, specialty oncology, and cell therapy. Through non-invasive longitudinal molecular biomarker testing, digital health, and patient support solutions, CareDx is dedicated to improving patient outcomes. For more information, please visit www.caredx.com. Our Mission: Create life-changing solutions that enable patients to thrive. Our Vision: A world where every patient receives the care they need to live longer, fuller lives.
- Post-IPO equity
- 861 employees
- Founded 1998
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Veracyte, Inc.· South San Francisco, California, United States
Veracyte is a global diagnostics company that empowers clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our growing menu of diagnostic tests answers important clinical questions to help patients avoid risky, costly procedures and interventions, and accelerate time to appropriate treatment.
- Post-IPO equity
- 759 employees
- Founded 2008

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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.· Durham, North Carolina, United States
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biotechnology company with a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with hereditary angioedema (HAE) and other rare diseases. We leverage our expertise to deliver first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and injectable protein therapeutics. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, we have a regional office in Boston, Massachusetts, and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives.To view our LinkedIn community guidelines, please visit https://www.biocryst.com/social-community-guidelines/
- Post-IPO debt
- 614 employees
- Founded 1986
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PacBio· Menlo Park, California, United States
At PacBio, we’re devoted to empowering you. Pioneering the future through biology takes vision. You have to look beyond the status quo to what’s possible.We know your vision can reveal the full potential of the genome, advance human health and the health of our planet. And that is why your vision and pursuit are at the very center of what our company does — our product design, our customer support model, our partnerships, and even our identity.We create the world’s most advanced sequencing systems to provide you the most complete and accurate view of genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes. Our founders invented a new way to study the synthesis and regulation of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Driven by a desire to advance human health, we’re harnessing advances in biochemistry, optics, nanofabrication, and more.We are passionate about developing products that empower scientists to explore the full spectrum of genetic variation in any organism — from unraveling the mystery of rare diseases to improving the world’s food supply. With world-class service and support, we keep your research progressing so you can focus on finding answers.We encourage you to see the whole picture — and consider us the partner you trust to see it too.
- Post-IPO equity
- 568 employees
- Founded 2004
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Zai Lab· Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park, Pudong, Shanghai, China
Zai Lab is an innovative, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company based in China and the United States. We are focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing transformative products that address medical conditions with significant unmet patient needs in the areas of oncology, autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases and neurological disorders. Our goal is to leverage our capabilities and resources to reach one million patients by 2030, positively impacting human health worldwide. See our Community Guidelines here: www.zailaboratory.com/community-guidelines/
- Post-IPO equity
- 536 employees
- Founded 2014
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Vera Therapeutics, Inc.· Brisbane, California, United States
Vera Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases to improve patients’ lives.Fraud alert for potential candidates for positions at Vera: your personal information and online safety are a top priority for us. At Vera Therapeutics, recruiters will only direct candidates to apply through our official career page at https://veratx.com/careers/. We will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers. If you are unsure if a message is from Vera Therapeutics, please email hr@veratx.com.Unfortunately, sometimes we have to pull comments made on our page. Here are some reasons why that could be:* Your comment references a product (ours or someone else's)* Your comment references a side effect* Your comment contains vulgarity* Your comment contains medical advice* Your comment is off-topic
- Post-IPO equity
- 359 employees
- Founded 2016
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BIOPTIC· San Francisco, California, United States
AI-powered drug discovery platform for rapid molecule screening and testing, from target identification to lab validation. Automating biotech R&D.About Optic Optic started as an AI research team developing high-performance similarity search algorithms. Today our proprietary AI-technology is powering products in multiple industries from blockchain to biotech.
- Seed
- 292 employees
- Founded 2021

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