Cipla was founded as The Chemical, Industrial, & Pharmaceutical Laboratories by Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935; the founder's sons now head the company. Cipla is a market-leading medicine maker in India. The company has roughly 5,500 pharmaceutical products. Some are sold domestically, while the rest reach international markets in some 170 countries. It offers prescription drugs for all kinds of ailments -- arthritis, cancer, depression -- as well as over-the-counter drugs for colds, oral hygiene, and skin care. Cipla leads the domestic retail pharmaceutical market. The firm also makes bulk drugs, agrochemicals, and animal products. It has eight manufacturing plants located throughout the country.

Actavis U.S. is the US manufacturing and marketing unit of global generics firm Actavis. The company makes a wide variety of generic equivalents of both prescription and OTC drugs, in a number of forms, including liquids, tablets, creams, and suppositories. Among other consumer and specialty drugs, it makes acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and generic Rogaine. It has also launched generic versions of Pfizer's diabetes drug Glucotrol XL and GlaxoSmithKlein's Coreg tables for hypertension and myocardial infarction. Actavis U.S. has manufacturing facilities in Maryland, New Jersey, and North Carolina, from which it ships its own products and provides contract manufacturing services to third parties.

Obagi Medical Products, Inc. company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California. Obagi Medical Products, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the aesthetic and therapeutic skin health markets. The Company develops and commercializes prescription-based products, topical skin health systems that enable physicians to treat a range of skin conditions, including pre-mature aging, photo-damage, hyperpigmentation (irregular or patchy discoloration of the skin), acne, rosacea and soft tissue deficits, such as fine lines and wrinkles. The Company markets and sells a range of systems and related products for the enhancement of skin health. Its principal product line is its Obagi Nu-Derm System. Its Obagi Nu-Derm System is a prescription-based topical skin health system that enhances the skin's overall health by correcting photo damage using drugs that, by definition, work at the cellular level, resulting in a reduction of the visible signs of aging. In January 2009, the Company launched the Obagi Rosaclear System.

AVIVA Biosciences develops biochips to speed drug discovery and research. The chips help researchers learn how cells interact with each and their environment which in turn helps scientists to create drugs that target those behaviors. The firm is also developing a means for isolating hard-to-detect rare cells from blood samples; this technology could be used in prenatal care, such as detecting Down syndrome in the first trimester of pregnancy. It can also be used for cancer diagnostics. Chinese life sciences company, CapitalBio, is AVIVA's primary shareholder.

GW was founded in 1998. GW Pharmaceuticals has "high" hopes that its products will help relieve the pain and muscle stiffness that have resulted from cancer, multiple sclerosis, and surgery. The company develops prescription medicinal drugs derived from an hybrid form of cannabis that doesn't cause a psychotropic high. GW's lead drug candidate is Sativex, a whole-plant cannabis extract delivered by an oral spray. Sativex has been approved in Canada for the treatment of pain caused by multiple sclerosis. The company has agreed to let Bayer market the drug in the UK and Canada.

VIVUS, Inc. company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. VIVUS, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic products. The Company’s product pipeline includes three late-stage clinical products, each addressing specific components of the obesity, diabetes and sexual health markets. One of these investigational products, Qnexa, is in Phase III clinical trials for obesity and in Phase II clinical trials for diabetes. The Company's late-stage investigational product pipeline includes Qnexa for treating obesity, for which the two of the Phase III studies are in process and one Phase III study has been completed; Qnexa for treating diabetes, for which a one-year Phase II study has been completed; Avanafil, is being developed for the treatment of erectile dysfunction; for which Phase III studies are in process, and Luramist (Testosterone MDTS), which is being developed to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women, for which a Phase II study has been completed.

China-Biotics, Inc. is engaged in the research, development, production, marketing and distribution of probiotics products, which are products that contain live microbial food supplements, which beneficially affect the host by improving its intestinal microbial balance. The Company manufactures and sells several health supplements under the Shining brand in the Shanghai area. It has four major products: Shining Essence, Shining Signal, Shining Golden Shield and Shining Energy. Shining Essence is composed of lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium bifidum, which is focused on balancing the microecology of the digestive system. Shining Signal is composed of monascus rice and lactobacillus acidophilus, focused on reducing high-blood pressure, high-blood sugar level and hyperlipidemia. Shining Golden Shield is composed of bifidobacterium adolescentis and lentinusedodes. Shining Energy is composed of Vitamin C, L. Arginine, and other amino acids.

Peplin, Inc. company is developing drugs aimed at treating potentially cancerous skin conditions. Its lead drug candidate, a topical gel, is intended to serve as a less-costly alternative to surgical treatments for a common pre-cancerous skin condition known as actinic keratosis (AK). Derived from a plant known as petty spurge or radium weed, the product will be used to treat AK (characterized by rough patches of skin resulting from excessive exposure to sunlight) before it develops into skin cancer. Peplin was acquired by pharmaceutical giant LEO Pharma in late 2009 for $285 million.

ConjuChem Biotechnologies Inc. (ConjuChem) is a Canadian biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery of therapeutics with an initial focus on diabetes. The Company is focused on discovering and developing new drugs based on its technology platforms called Drug Affinity Complex (DAC) and Preformed Conjugate-Drug Affinity Complex (PC-DAC). The Company has developed the DAC Technology, a platform that enables the rapid creation of improved, patentable drugs from existing small organic compounds or peptides. The Company also designs drugs to treat an array of pathologies, such as diabetes, cancer and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ConjuChem has multiple research programs in-house and has one product in clinical trials.

Oxford BioMedica has no reservations about launching attacks on disease. The biotechnology company focuses on developing gene therapy treatments for oncology and neurotherapy. Its lead product,TroVax, is in testing for renal and colorectal cancer and is designed to stimulate the body's immune response to attack tumor cells. Another leading candidate, ProSavin, is in testing for treatment of Parkinson's disease. The company has several additional products in various stages of clinical development. Oxford BioMedica has awarded Sanofi-Aventis exclusive rights to develop and commercialize TroVax globally. The company's California-based BioMedica subsidiary handles its business development in North America and Asia.

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