BG Medicine wants to fill big gaps in diagnostic medicine. The biosciences researcher primarily provides drug research and development services to such top global pharmaceutical makers as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, US government agencies, and to the health care product divisions of companies like Mitsubishi. BG Medicine specializes in developing biomarkers, substances used to detect disease at a molecular level, that enable research into the causes of disease and the effectiveness of drugs used to treat them. Products in the planning and discovery stages include molecular diagnostic tests for heart disease, neurological disorders, and cancer.

Anadys Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing medicines in the areas of hepatitis C and oncology. It develops ANA598, a small-molecule non-nucleoside inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase for the treatment of hepatitis C; and ANA773, an oral toll-like receptor 7 agonist prodrug for the treatment of hepatitis C and cancer. The company was formerly known as Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in May 2000.

Lannett Company, Inc. was founded in 1942 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lannett Company, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes generic versions of pharmaceutical products in the United States. The company manufactures and/or sells various prescription products. Its product portfolio includes acetazolamide, baclofen, and bethanechol chloride tablets; amantadine gel capsules; butalbital, aspirin, and caffeine with codeine phosphate, danazol, and clindamycin HCl capsules; cocaine topical solution; and dicyclomine tablets and capsules. Lannett company's products also comprise digoxin, dipyridamole, doxycycline, doxycycline hyclate, esterified estrogen and methyltestoterone, hydrochlorothiazide, hydromorphone HCl, and levothyroxine sodium tablets; morphine sulfate oral solutions; and OB-natal one gel capsules. In addition, its products consist of pilocarpine HCl, primidone, probenecid, terbutaline sulfate, and unithroid tablets; oxycodone HCl oral solution; rifampin and ursodiol capsules; and phentermine HCl tablets and capsules. Lannett Company markets its products under the brand names of Diamox, Symmetrel, Lioresal, Urecholine, Fiorinal, Cleocin, Danocrine, Bentyl, Lanoxin, Persantine, Adoxa, Periostat, Estratest, Hydrodiuril, Dilaudid, Levoxyl/ Synthroid, Roxanol, PrimaCare ONE, Roxicodone, Adipex-P, Fastin, Salagen, Mysoline, Benemid, Rifadin, Brethine, Actigall, and Fiorinal w/ Codeine #3. The company sells its pharmaceutical products to generic pharmaceutical distributors, drug wholesalers, chain drug retailers, private label distributors, mail-order pharmacies, other pharmaceutical manufacturers, managed care organizations, hospital buying groups, governmental entities, and health maintenance organizations.

Cangene Corporation company makes plasma products known as hyperimmunes, which are antibody preparations and recombinant biopharmaceuticals made by introducing a gene in a host organism. Cangene's drugs are used to treat plasma-derived disorders, including the blood clotting disorder thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic disease of the newborn, which occurs when a fetus' blood type is incompatible with its mother's. Cangene has several approved products and is developing others, mainly in the areas of infectious disease and biodefense. Generic giant Apotex owns more than 80% of Cangene.

Entelos using its PhysioLab technology, the company develops computer models of diseases that drug makers and other researchers can use to design drugs and other therapies more effectively. The disease models integrate known genomic and proteomic data with physiologic, environmental, and other information collected from clinical trials, case studies, and other sources. Entelos has developed PhysioLab models for asthma, diabetes, obesity, and rheumatoid arthritis. The models are built in partnership with such firms as Eli Lilly, PDL Biopharma, and UCB Pharma.

454 Life Sciences company has developed a computer-controlled instrument and related software that enable scientists to analyze whole genomes in one fell swoop, rather than a few hundred genes at a time. Parent company Roche Diagnostics distributes 454 Life Sciences' Genome Sequencing Systems to clinical laboratories, research departments of drugmakers, and other customers worldwide. Research fields include cancer and infectious disease, drug discovery, and paleontology. The company's 454 Sequencing Center provides sequencing services directly.

QLT Inc. company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. QLT Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, primarily in the field of ophthalmology. It offers Visudyne, a photosensitizer to treat the eye disease, known as wet age related macular degeneration; and also used for the treatment of subfoveal CNV due to pathologic myopia, or severe near-sightedness, and presumed ocular histoplasmosis or other macular diseases. The company also offers Eligard product line that includes one, three, four, and six month commercial formulations of Atrigel technology combined with leuprolide acetate for the treatment of prostate cancer. Its products in development include Visudyne therapy; punctal plug drug delivery system, an invasive drug delivery system for delivering various drugs topically to the eye through controlled sustained release to the tear film, under Phase II studies targeting the treatment of glaucoma and ocular hypertension; and QLT091001, a Phase Ia orally administered synthetic retinoid replacement therapy for 11-cis-retinal, which is a key biochemical component of the visual retinoid cycle, as well as OT-730, a prodrug of a beta adrenergic antagonist (a type of beta blocker) under investigation for the treatment of glaucoma.

Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. company was founded in 2002 and is based in Cranbury, New Jersey. Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of orally administered, small molecule drugs, known as pharmacological chaperones, for the treatment of a range of human genetic diseases. The Company’s products in development are Amigal (migalastat hydrochloride) for Fabry disease, Plicera (isofagomine tartrate) for Gaucher disease and AT2220 (1-deoxynojirimycin HCl) for Pompe disease. The Company completed its Phase II clinical trials of Amigal and are conducting Phase II clinical trials of Plicera and AT2220.

Medicure Inc., (Medicure) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development and commercialization of human therapeutic. The Company's primary focus is on the sale and marketing of its acute care cardiovascular drug, AGGRASTAT (tirofiban hydrochloride) in the United States and its territories through its United States subsidiary, Medicure Pharma Inc. The Company's primary research and development program of focus is the clinical development of TARDOXAL (product previously referred to as AVASTREM) for neurological disorders, although the Company continues to investigate and advance certain other product opportunities.

Hemispherx Biopharma, based in Philadelphia, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture and clinical development of new drug entities for treatment of viral and immune-based disorders. Hemispherx’s flagship products include Alferon N Injection® and the experimental immunotherapeutics/antivirals Ampligen® and Oragens®.Alferon N Injection® is the company's registered trademark for its injectable formulation of Natural Alpha Interferon, and is approved by the FDA for a category of STD infection. Alferon N Injection® (interferon alfa-n3 human leukocyte derived) is a highly purified, natural source, glycosylated, multispecies alpha interferon product, composed of eight forms of high-purified alpha interferon. Alferon LDO® (Low Dose Oral) is a new experimental drug delivery platform for the Company’s highly purified, natural source alpha interferon.

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