Funding of Banbury Center meetings comes from a variety of sources. A major and invaluable contribution comes from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Corporate Sponsor Program. This provides support for six meetings each year. 2006 members of the Corporate Sponsor Program are listed below.
In addition, funding comes from federal sources such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control, Homeland Security and the Department of Energy. Foundation support is another key component, and Banbury Center meetings have received funding from the Alfred P. Slaon Foundation, the Haveymeyer Foundation, the Howard Hughes Mediical Institute; the Swartz Foundation and the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute. Meetings on specific human disorders are frequently funded by those groups working to understand the causes and develop treatments: the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, the SMA Association, the Neurofibromatosis Foundation; the Huntington's Disease Society; the Muscular Dystrophy Association; the Verto Institute; the Herbert J. Siegal Fund for Cancer Genomics.
Members of the Corporate Sponsor Program - 2006
| CORPORATE PATRONS |
| Pfizer Inc. |
| CORPORATE BENEFACTORS |
| Amgen Inc. |
| GlaxoSmithKline |
| Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research |
| CORPORATE SPONSORS |
| Abbott Laboratories |
| Applied Biosystems |
| BioVentures, Inc. |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |
| Diagnostic Products Corporation |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
| GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences |
| Genentech, Inc. |
| Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. |
| Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. |
| Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. |
| Merck Research Laboratories |
| New England BioLabs, Inc. |
| OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Pall Corporation |
| Sanofi-Aventis |
| Schering-Plough Research Institute |
| PLANT CORPORATE ASSOCIATES |
| ArborGen |
| Monsanto Company |
| Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. |
| FOUNDATIONS |
| Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, Inc. |
| Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology |
| CORPORATE AFFILIATES |
| Abcam Ltd. |
| Agilent Technologies |
| CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS |
| Aviva Systems Biology |
| Bethyl Laboratories |
| Cell Signaling Technology |
| Epicentre Biotechnologies |
| inGenious Targeting Laboratory, Inc. |
| Illumina |
| IRx Therapeutics, Inc. |