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Current Investments: Health Care

Arrow Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Arrow Pharmaceuticals, based in Rosebery, Australia, develops generic pharmaceutical products, and markets and distributes pharmaceuticals for Australian and international pharmaceutical companies. The company distributes Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) listed pharmaceuticals, non-PBS drugs and over-the-counter products. As of December 5, 2005, Arrow Pharmaceuticals Ltd., was acquired by Sigma Co. Ltd. (www.arrowpharma.com)

InMed Diagnostic Imaging
InMed Diagnostic Imaging provides diagnostic imaging (MRI, Ultrasound, CT, mammography and x-ray) to patients in eight facilities in three states. InMed is an independent provider of imaging services unaffiliated with any physician group. The company is based in Columbia, SC.

NeuroVasx, Inc.
Based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, NeuroVasx develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, focusing on the interventional neuroradiology market. Its lead product, a cerebral aneurysm filler, is currently in human clinical trials in anticipation of filing for FDA approval in 2007. (www.neurovasx.com)

Precision Therapeutics, Inc.
Precision Therapeutics provides personalized cancer management services. The company offers personalized cancer management information and customized pre-clinical drug testing services to the medical and biopharmaceutical community. Its ChemoFx assay assists physicians in evaluating optimal therapy options for individual patients. Precision Therapeutics is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (www.ptilabs.com)

Prism Pharmaceuticals
Prism, located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company committed to developing and commercializing acute care cardiovascular products. Prism is focused on recognizing unfulfilled opportunities in existing compounds that target acute care cardiovascular needs and comprehensively developing them to achieve their full market potential. (www,prismpharma.com)

RayMedica, Inc.
Headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, RayMedica is an orthopedic medical technology company manufacturing nonfusion spinal implant devices for the treatment of back pain. The company’s products include the PDN-SOLO and Hydrflex prosthetic disc nucleus devices for the surgical treatment of low back pain. (www.raymedica.com)

Regeneration Technologies, Inc.
Alachua, Florida-based Regeneration Technologies, together with its subsidiaries, processes human musculoskeletal and other tissues to produce allograft implants for use in a variety of surgical settings. The company also processes bovine tissue to produce the Sterling xenograft line of products. (Nasdaq: RTIX) (www.rtix.com)

Sangamo Biosciences, Inc.
Sangamo Biosciences engages in the research, development and commercialization of DNA-binding proteins for the therapeutic regulation and modification of disease-related genes. The applications of the company’s technology include pharmaceutical protein production, development of human therapeutics and plant agriculture. Sangamo Biosciences is based in Richmond, California. (Nasdaq: SGMO) (www.sangamo.com)

Vascular Solutions, Inc.
Vascular Solutions is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based medical device developer. The company creates solutions for interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists, including the D-Stat Dry hemostatic bandage, Pronto extraction catheter, Vari-Lase endovenous laser, Duett sealing device and D-Stat Flowable hemostat. (Nasdaq: VASC) (www.vascularsolutions.com)

ViaCell, Inc.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ViaCell focuses on the research, development and commercialization of cellular therapies in the United States and Singapore. The company develops a pipeline of proprietary umbilical cord blood-derived and adult-derived stem cell product candidates as treatments for cancer, cardiac disease and diabetes. The company was acquired by PerkinElmer, Inc. in November 2007. (Nasdaq: VIAC) (www.viacellinc.com)

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