Precision Therapeutics, Inc. company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Precision Therapeutics, Inc., a diagnostics services company, engages in the development and delivery of treatment support tools for physicians and cancer patients in the United States and Canada. The company develops predictive drug response tests, which include ChemoFx, a drug response marker test that quantifies a cancer patient's probable tumor response to various chemotherapeutic and biologic agents and provides sensitivity and resistance information, such as tumor progression, increased side effects, accumulated toxicity, development of cross-resistance, decreased efficacy of future treatments, and decreased quality of life. It offers physicians and patients with clinical information to personalize cancer treatments.

Roche Diagnostics Corporation company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Roche Diagnostics Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG. Roche Diagnostics Corporation offers diagnostic tests and systems. The company operates in the diagnostic areas of diabetes care, centralized diagnostics, applied science, molecular diagnostics, and point-of-care diagnostics. Its products include diagnostics tools that test for congestive heart failure, HIV, Hepatitis B and C, fertility, and diabetes diseases. The company supplies its products to researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals, and laboratories. It has facilities in Indiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Colorado, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and California, as well as locations in Canada.

ArQule, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. ArQule, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of cancer therapeutics. The Company’s product is ARQ 197, an orally administered inhibitor of the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase. ARQ 197 is being evaluated as monotherapy and in combination therapy in a Phase II clinical development program that includes trials in Microphthalmia Transcription Factor (MiT) associated tumors, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), pancreatic adenocarcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The Company has licensed commercial rights to ARQ 197 for human cancer indications to Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Daiichi Sankyo) in the United States, Europe, South America and the rest of the world, excluding Japan and certain other Asian countries, where it has licensed commercial rights to Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Hakko Kirin).

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK India) is the top of the pill heap. India's leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, the company makes pharmaceuticals and consumer health care products through its two manufacturing facilities in Nashik and Thane; it also has a clinical development center in Bangalore. Its products include those targeting problems with infections, gynecology, dermatology, diabetes, and the cardiovascular system. Top sellers are Augmentin, Zinetac, Calpol, Phexin, and Betnesol. GSK India also makes vaccines to treat or prevent hepatitis A and B, the flu, chickenpox, and tetanus. Its distribution network stretches throughout the country. UK-based drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline owns GSK India.

BioVest offers cell culture products, instruments, and related contract services to research institutions, biotech firms, and pharmaceutical companies. The company is also developing a therapeutic cancer vaccine for follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that is customized for individual patient use. The candidate, dubbed BiovaxID, is undergoing late-stage clinical trials. Its AutovaxID product is a cell culture instrument designed to ease use of BiovaxID. BioVest is 76% owned by Accentia Biopharmaceuticals. Both BioVest and Accentia filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008 and are restructuring their operations.

diaDexus, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in South San Francisco, California. diaDexus, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic products to address the medical needs in the cardiovascular field. The company develops The PLAC Test, a blood test to aid in assessing risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and ischemic stroke associated with atherosclerosis. Its product measures lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), which is a vascular-specific inflammatory enzyme implicated in the formation of rupture-prone plaque. The company’s PLAC Test is available as an ELISA assay that runs on an automated micropate system, as well as in the form of immunotarbidimetric technology that runs on common clinical chemistry analyzers used in clinical reference laboratories, hospitals, and physician office laboratories.

Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. company was founded in 1984 and is based in New York, New York. mmtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focuses on the discovery and development of drugs to treat infectious diseases worldwide. The company involves in drug discovery and development programs for hepatitis C and malaria; and provides aromatic cationic pharmaceutical compounds. It also offers assistance to healthcare companies seeking to conduct clinical trials, and manufacture and/or distribute pharmaceutical products in China. In addition, the company involves in investing in metal and mineral assets, primarily tin assets in China.

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. company was founded in 1998 and is based in San Diego, California. Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (Halozyme) is a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products targeting the extracellular matrix (Matrix) for the endocrinology, oncology, dermatology and drug delivery markets The Company's products are based on the property covering the family of human enzymes known as hyaluronidases. The Company has two marketed products: HYLENEX, a product used as an adjuvant to increase the absorption and dispersion of other injected drugs and fluids, and Cumulase, a product used for in vitro fertilization (IVF). The Company has partnerships with F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd and Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. (Roche), to apply Enhanze Technology to Roche’s biological therapeutic compounds for up to 13 targets, and with Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter), to apply Enhanze Technology to Baxter’s biological therapeutic compound, GAMMAGARD LIQUID.

Diversa Limited company has developed biosensor technology, drawing on work from the fields of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and electronics. Its primary technology is the Ion Channel Switch, a biosensing device. The Ion Channel Switch, or ICS, technology was developed using a membrane that acts as a switch, triggering an electrical current in the presence of particular molecules. Diversa plans to use the technology in point-of-care diagnostic products. The ICS was developed from research done by the Australian Membrane and Biotechnology Research Institute (AMBRI), the University of Sydney, and others.

Rosemont Pharmaceuticals keeps the medicine flowing. The drugmaker specializes in generic oral liquid formulations of drugs for patients who have difficulty swallowing pills and capsules, oftentimes elderly patients or young children. It makes more than 90 licensed products under its own brand -- including antibiotics, cardiovascular treatments, analgesics, and corticosteroids -- and distributes them primarily to hospitals, primary care centers, and pharmacies in the UK. It also makes custom liquid formulations of unlicensed drugs (called "Specials") and offers contract manufacturing services. In 2006 Close Brothers backed a management buy-out of Rosemont, which had been a subsidiary of Savient Pharmaceuticals.

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