BD Biosciences company, a division of medical equipment firm Becton, Dickinson (BD), provides research supplies to the life sciences market. Its primary Cell Analysis unit offers cell imaging devices, flow cytometers (for cell sorting), and chemical reagents and antibodies (proteins) for cellular analysis. The Discovery Labware unit makes basic lab supplies including pipettes, tubes, and cell culture kits. In addition to scientific researchers and drug developers, BD Biosciences counts among its customers blood banks, hospitals, and clinical labs. The company sells its goods around the world through direct and indirect marketing reps and independent distributors.

Fibrocell Science, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on developing regenerative fibroblast cells for aesthetic, medical, and scientific applications. The company is developing Azfibrocel-T, an investigational autologous cell therapy to treat nasolabial fold wrinkles. It was formerly known as Isolagen, Inc. and changed its name to Fibrocell Science, Inc. in September 2009. The company is based in Exton, Pennsylvania.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cheshire, Connecticut. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and delivers drug therapies for patients with various medical conditions. It primarily engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biologic therapeutic products for the treatment of various disease states, including hematologic and neurologic diseases, transplant rejection, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. The company primarily markets Soliris (eculizumab) in the United States and Europe for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a blood disorder. It is also evaluating other indications for Soliris, as well as other formulations of eculizumab for additional clinical indications. In addition, the company is developing Anti-CD200 antibody for the treatment of B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a cancer that results from expansion of B-lymphocytes and other cancers.Alexion Pharmaceuticals drug programs include Eculizumab (intravenous), a phase II product candidate for atypical HUS, presensitized renal transplant, myasthenia gravis, multifocal motor neuropathy, dense deposit disease, catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, and cold agglutinin disease; CD200 Mab, which is in phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in preclinical stage for the treatment of multiple myeloma; and Eculizumab (new formulation) that is under phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of asthma. Its customers include specialty distributors and specialty pharmacies who supply physician office clinics, hospital outpatient clinics, infusion clinics, or home health care providers; government agencies; and hospitals, hospital buying groups, pharmacies, and other health care providers and distributors.

GSK Consumer Healthcare, a unit of druggernaut GlaxoSmithKline, makes and sells a wide range of over-the-counter drugs, oral care products, and nutritionals. Brands and products range from oral care (Aquafresh toothpaste) to dermatology (Zovirax cold sore medication), with all kinds of analgesics (Panadol), gastrointestinal remedies (Tums), and smoking-cessation products (Nicoderm) in between. GSK Consumer Healthcare also makes a variety of vitamins and natural remedies, as well as the weight loss product alli.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma makes proprietary prescription pharmaceuticals in a number of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neuroscience, immunology, and oncology. In its home market, it sells products such as anticoagulant Anplag, anti-allergy medicine Talion, liver drug Urso, and neuroprotective agent Radicut. Its Benesis unit makes therapeutic plasma proteins such as albumin. The company markets and sells its products through in-house sales agents and distributors. Formerly Mitsubishi Pharma, the company merged with fellow Japanese drugmaker Tanabe Seiyaku and subsequently changed its name; Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings owns a majority stake in the new entity.

Morphotek has mighty morphin' power, but don't expect to find its products on the shelves of the local toy store. The biotechnology company develops monoclonal antibody (single-source protein) therapies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, and infectious diseases using its proprietary Morphogenics technology platform. It conducts research and clinical development programs on its own drug candidates for ailments such as ovarian and pancreatic cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma. Morphotek also enters collaborative research partnerships and licenses out its technology to other drug companies such as Amgen and Novo Nordisk. The company is a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., part of Japanese drug firm Eisai.

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited is a Japan-based holding company mainly engaged in the manufacturing and sale of pharmaceuticals. The Company has two business segments. The Pharmaceuticals segment is involved in the research, development, manufacturing and sale of pharmaceuticals, as well as the provision of intermediates and basic materials for pharmaceutical making. The Others segment is involved in the real estate leasing, the insurance agency business, as well as the provision of human affairs and accounting services.

Pharmasset, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey. Pharmasset, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections. Its primary focus is on the development of nucleoside/tide analogs as oral therapeutics for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; and Racivir for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The company has three product candidates under development, which include RG7128, a HCV nucleoside polymerase inhibitor that is in Phase IIb clinical trial; PSI-7851, a HCV nucleotide polymerase inhibitor that completed Phase I clinical trial; and Racivir, which completed Phase II clinical trial, for the treatment of HIV. It has strategic collaboration agreement with F. Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. for the development of PSI-6130 and its products, including RG7128. The company also has collaboration and licensing agreements with University of Cincinnati; Apath, LLC; Emory University; Bukwang Pharm. Co., Ltd; University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. and Yale University; and Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals, Inc.

Bellus Health scientists are putting their gray matter to work to find therapies for incurable conditions. Formerly known as Neurochem, Bellus Health's lead candidate is a potential treatment for Amyloid A amyloidosis, an often fatal condition associated with inflammatory disease and kidney dysfunction. Bellus has licensed the late-stage compound to Centocor, which plans to market it under the name Kiacta. Bellus is also evaluating a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes in clinical trials and has discovery programs in the areas of Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Its OVOS Natural Health business is touting homotaurine as a nutritional supplement to improve memory and cognition.

Spectral Diagnostics Inc. company was founded in 1991 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Spectral Diagnostics Inc. operates in the in vitro diagnostic testing market. The company focuses on the development, manufacture, and sale of diagnostic tests that provide information to physicians. Its products include EAA Endotoxin Activity Assay, a diagnostic test in the field of sepsis; and RapidWN West Nile Virus IgM Test, an assay that helps physicians in obtaining diagnostic information regarding exposure to the West Nile virus. The company also offers other proprietary biochemicals, including monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins. Spectral Diagnostics Inc. has operations primarily in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

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