There are at least 4 types of participants in the PFI MTCC program: Entrepreneurs-in-Readiness (EIR), physicians and other medical practitioners, biomedical engineers and other technology developers, and MBA students. Law school students may also choose to participate. Faculty, post-docs, other researchers, and students are invited to participate.

Participating institutions:

• UC Davis, including:
  
• NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology   
  
• UC Davis Health System     
• UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering
• UC Davis Design and Prototyping Clinic at the College of Engineering 
• UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), NIH center
  
• UC Davis InnovationAccess 
• UC Davis Graduate School of Management
• Fisk University
• Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 
  
• California State University at Sacramento (CSUS)
• College of Engineering and Computer Science 
  
• College of Business Administration
  
• Los Rios Community College District, including American River College