The AADC Research Trust

The AADC Research Trust is a Charity Organisation dedicated to helping children and their families, around the World, affected by Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency (AADC). AADC is a genetically inherited neurological disorder affecting the brains ability to produce neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin. These are two of the most essential neurotransmitters needed for everyday living! At the AADC Research Trust we aim to: • Help support children with Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency (AADC) • Promote worldwide disease awareness • Fund scientific research We currently know of 130 children, spanning 30 different countries who have been correctly diagnosed with AADC deficiency. We lose at least 3 children every year to complications of this disease. Registered Charity: 1114367 Registered in England and Wales: 5407899

Insect Research & Development Limited

Insect Research & Development Limited (IRD) is a contract research company specialising in investigations of methods for controlling insects and other arthropods of public health significance. The activities of the company are mainly divided between laboratory bioassay work to establish baseline activity of products at various stages of the development process and clinical and field investigations. In addition IRD works closely with its partner company EctoMedica Limited, which is a specialist formulation and new product development business focussing on bespoke and novel product concepts within the spheres of biocidal and medical device product creation. IRD has extensive experience of evaluating products since its foundation as Medical Entomology Centre (MEC) in 1984. During that time we have screened most of the leading products used as topically applied treatments for control of head louse and flea infestations and have also developed a series of novel techniques for measuring the effectiveness of products and materials designed to manage house dust mites and their allergens, bed bugs and other household pests, and evaluation of insect repellents. Through MEC, the company has been at the forefront of protocol design and implementation of good clinical practices in the conduct of clinical investigations of head louse treatments. Other activities of the business include identification of animal derived foreign bodies (not just insects) found in consumer goods on behalf of leading companies involved in household product marketing a food safety; specialist and bespoke training on public health pests and personal parasites; and personal injury and forensic expert witness work involving interactions between humans and arthropods.

Client Insight Limited

How much do you know about what clients think of your service? Could you be missing the opportunity to sell more work to existing clients? Could there be lurking client issues you are unaware of? What are you missing? Client Insight is a feedback system provider and consultancy. We exist to help our customers strengthen, repair, and sell deeper into their client relationships. We believe if you want to grow your business you need to talk to your customers. Surveys and happy sheets won't do it. We help you have powerful conversations with your customers. We then help you take action individually with each customer so that they see a difference, you see a difference, and most importantly your business sees a difference. Everything is tracked in a secure online platform where you will see the issues and progress made in addressing them. We work with business to business organisations who wish to: - assure themselves that their clients are being looked after, consistently - develop their strategic accounts - identify their points of difference from competitors - grow their business from existing clients - share and build on best practice in the business - identify relationships at risk - reduce churn - identify under-performing parts of the business - be a source of testimonials and stories. "Your interviewers get more out of a 15 minute conversation than anyone we've used before". Chief Executive, Communications firm. "Additional information that comes from the interviewers, not just from the scores and forms, has proved to be really important and has added to my understanding". Director, firm of Leadership consultants. "This is really good, we should do more of this." Director, Investment firm. "Some systems can be very cumbersome, but the Client Insight platform is very easy to use." Manager, firm of Leadership consultants. For more information find us at www.client-insight.com

AIhub

The Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit dedicated to connecting the AI community to the public by providing free, high-quality information through AIhub.org. AIhub is supported by many leading scientific organization in AI, namely AAAI, NeurIPS, IMLS, AIJ/IJCAI, ACM SIGAI, and RoboCup.

Seward Limited

Seward Stomacher® lab blenders for microbiology sample preparation - the original and still regarded as the best, more than 8 million samples a day are prepared on Stomacher® paddle blender units around the world. Our blenders ensure repeatable sample preparation that gives reliable, quality output. Seward Stomachers® are manufactured exclusively in the UK by us, the Stomaching process founders. Our machines are shipped globally and Seward Laboratory Systems Inc based in New York support our North and South American customers. There is a Seward Stomacher lab blender to suit every application. The Stomacher® 400 Circulator is the only tool for companies serious about food safety. In bio science, the developments of the Stomacher® 80 and micro 80 have proved invaluable in safe and efficient small tissue sample processing. The Stomacher® 3500 has established itself as the instrument of choice for preparing samples for the pathogen test protocols requiring jumbo size samples across the food and environmental sectors. Stomacher® is the most highly referenced brand name in food safety and life science scientific publications. We are able to assist customers with method development through reference searches and sample evaluations in our development lab. Our website has a Resource Centre which offers a unique database of reference papers for all to use. In 2016, Seward joined C-Tech Electronics to become FermionX. Seward remains a key brand and our R&D capabilities have grown, meaning that we'll keep innovating to further cement our position as market-leading microbiology technologists and innovators.