Essential Group, Inc. company was founded in 1994 and taken private in 2007. Essential Group (formerly AmericasDoctor) is helping medical researchers find a more advanced way to cure that bellyache. The company acts as a contract research organization (CRO) to handle everything needed in a clinical drug trial, including study design, patient recruitment, clinical monitoring, and writing up the findings. It conducts Phase I-IV trials in areas such as cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, and women's health through test sites across the US. Essential Group's primary clients are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Established in 1989 as the commercial arm of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, MRS assists UK agricultural and plant biotechology scientists develop their ideas into marketable products. Profits earned from its efforts are plowed back into the research institution. MRS labs offer pathogen testing, plant analysis, and consulting services. MRS works with companies interested in licensing technologies that the researchers use to breed high-quality varieties of potatoes, soft fruits, barley, and other agricultural products.

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD) provides research and development support for the pharmaceutical business units of parent company, Johnson & Johnson. Its main research processes are divided into three franchises: central nervous system and internal medicine; biotech, immunology, and oncology (through J&J subsidiary Centocor); and virology (through Tibotec). The subsidiary -- which represents the largest segment of J&J's pharmaceutical R&D -- also does research in collaboration with other pharmaceutical organizations and biotech researchers, and has partnerships with the likes of Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Entelos.

PacificHealth Laboratories, Inc. company was founded in 1995 and is based in Matawan, New Jersey. PacificHealth Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and sale of protein-based nutritional products for appetite regulation. It principally focuses on sports performance, weight loss, and management of Type II diabetes. The company offers ENDUROX R4, a recovery drink; ACCELERADE, a sports drink; ACCEL GEL, an energy gel; and ENDUROX EXCEL, a dietary supplement. PacificHealth Laboratories sells its products through retail outlets, including GNC, sports specialty stores, independent health food retailers, independent bike retailers, health clubs, catalogs, and Internet sites, as well as through independent distributors.

China Shineway Pharmaceutical Group Limited company develops, manufactures, and sells modern Chinese medicines and western pharmaceuticals. Three of its principal products are Xin Nao Qing soft capsules, Qingkailing injection, and Shenmai injection -- the company's production of these three products is the largest in China. Shineway has plans to expand its sales and marketing network, focusing on hospitals and retail pharmacies to expand its market coverage and deepen its market penetration. Chairman Li Zhenjiang and his family control more than 70% of the company.

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Westbrook, Maine. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes products for veterinary, and food and water testing markets. It operates in three segments: Companion Animal Group (CAG), Water Quality Products (Water), and Production Animal Segment (PAS). The CAG segment provides point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, such as instruments and consumables, and rapid assays; and information products and services, and digital radiography systems for veterinarians. This segment also offers commercial veterinary reference laboratory and consulting services to veterinarians in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. The Water segment offers a range of products used in the detection of various microbiological analytes in water to government laboratories, water utilities, and private certified laboratories. The PAS segment provides diagnostic tests and related instrumentation that are used to detect diseases, and to monitor health status in production animals. This segment offers its products primarily to government laboratories, cattle, and poultry and swine producers. IDEXX Laboratories also provides products that test milk for antibiotic residues to dairy producers and processors, as well as to government and food-quality managers. In addition, the company sells point-of-care analyzers and related consumables for use in human medical hospitals and clinics to measure electrolytes, blood gases, acid-base balance, glucose, and ionized calcium, as well as to calculate other parameters, such as base excess and anion gap. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through independent distributors and other resellers in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

PDL BioPharma, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada. PDL BioPharma, Inc. engages in the management of antibody humanization patents and royalty assets, which consist of its Queen et al. patents and license agreements with various biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The company licenses its technologies to make and sell antibodies that bind to respiratory syncytial virus, as well as antibodies that bind to the alpha subunit of the VLA-4 integrin. The company was formerly known as Protein Design Labs, Inc. and changed its name to PDL BioPharma, Inc. in 2006.

Affymax, Inc. company was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California. Affymax, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of peptide-based drug candidates to enhance the treatment of serious and life-threatening conditions. The company’s lead product candidate, Hematide, is designed to treat anemia associated with chronic renal failure. Hematide is a synthetic peptide-based erythropoiesis stimulating agent designed to stimulate production of red blood cells. It is conducting Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic renal failure, on dialysis, and pre-dialysis. Affymax has a license, manufacturing, and supply agreement with Nektar Therapeutics AL, Corporation to manufacture, develop, and commercialize Hematide.

3SBio Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Shenyang, the Peoples Republic of China. 3SBio Inc. is an integrated biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products primarily in China. The Company’s recombinant, or genetically engineered, protein-based products and product candidates are designed to address markets with unmet medical needs in nephrology, oncology, supportive cancer care, inflammation and infectious diseases. Its principal products are EPIAO and TPIAO, and its legacy products are Intefen and Inleusin. EPIAO is an injectable recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) that is used to stimulate the production of red blood cells in patients with anemia and to reduce the need for blood transfusions. 3SBio Inc. had launched TPIAO, its internally developed protein-based therapeutic product. In addition to EPIAO and TPIAO, the Company markets two other protein-based therapeutics.

The German drug company -- seller of popular over-the-counter remedies Zantac and Dulcolax, as well as prescription Flomax for enlarged prostate -- makes a host of prescription and OTC products, not to mention fine chemicals and pet medications. Its prescription drugs include treatments for respiratory ailments, hypertension, HIV, and depression. Boehringer also offers cold, gastrointestinal, and pain remedies, as well as vaccines, drugs, and nutritionals for farm animals and pets. The company operates worldwide. The founding Boehringer family controls the company through parent company C.H. Boehringer Sohn.

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