Google's mission statement is “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The organization continues to focus on developing its proprietary algorithms to maximize effectiveness, ensuring that people access the information they need. Google is a global organization having office locations around the world.

Google wants a world that works for everyone—and the organization believes that technology and innovation can move the needle in three key areas of:

1. Creating richer learning experiences for students

2. Connecting people to jobs and opportunity for economic mobility

3. Fighting systemic racial bias to advance inclusion and justice for all.

Website: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/our-company/

Merck has a long history of discovering and developing medicines and vaccines that help to improve or save lives. They pursue new disease targets, new types of medicines and vaccines, and new models for developing the next generation of therapeutic breakthroughs.

Merck business focuses on innovation and scientific excellence to deliver vaccines, medicines, and animal health products that can help millions around the world. Merck focuses its research on several key therapeutic areas, including:

• Cardiovascular Diseases

• Diabetes and Endocrinology

• Neurosciences and Ophthalmology

• Oncology

• Respiratory and Immunology

• Infectious Diseases

Website: http://www.merck.com/mrl/

The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is one of the largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and is considered one of the leading companies contributing to growth and innovation in an evolving market. P&G’s mission is to provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world’s consumers, now and for generations to come. The insight, innovation and passion of talented teams has helped P&G grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and transparent, supports good causes and protects the environment. Throughout its ten-category portfolio of products, P&G leverages advanced statistics and data science to build deep consumer knowledge and category-changing innovation to identify consumer unmet needs and develop new technologies to address these needs.

Website: https://us.pg.com/

RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on RTI International to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach — one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development.

Founded in 1958 with support from North Carolina government, education, and business leaders, RTI International maintain close ties with North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dedication to innovative, objective research and technical services make RTI an outstanding partner for clients around the world whose greatest challenges demand rigorous approaches and science-based solutions.

Website: https://www.rti.org/

SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software (also called SAS), which helps access, manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making. The company is the world's largest privately held software business and its software is used by most of the Fortune 500.

SAS Institute started as a project at North Carolina State University to create a statistical analysis system (hence the proper name, Statistical Analysis System) that was originally used primarily by agricultural departments at universities in the late 1960s. It became an independent, private business led by current CEO James Goodnight and three other project leaders from the university in 1976. SAS grew from $10 million in revenues in 1980 to $1.1 billion by 2000. In 1998 a larger proportion of these revenues were spent on research and development than at most other software companies; in 1997 these were more than double the industry average.

Website: https://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

As described in our strategic plan, NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. And in every case, we ensure that research is fully integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.

Website: https://www.nsf.gov/about/

23andMe, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is a leading consumer genetics and research company. Founded in 2006, the company’s mission is to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome. 23andMe has pioneered direct access to genetic information as the only company with multiple FDA authorizations for genetic health risk reports. The company has created the world’s largest crowdsourced platform for genetic research, with 80 percent of its customers electing to participate. The platform also powers the 23andMe Therapeutics group, currently pursuing drug discovery programs rooted in human genetics across a spectrum of disease areas, including oncology, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases, in addition to other therapeutic areas. More information is available at www.23andMe.com.

Website: https://www.23andme.com/careers/