ACON Laboratories, Inc. company was founded in 1995 and is based in San Diego, California. ACON Laboratories has a contracted manufacturing facility located in Hangzhou, China. ACON Laboratories, Inc. engages in the custom product design and contract manufacturing of diagnostic healthcare products. It offers rapid test products for fertility, infectious diseases, and drugs of abuse, as well as provides tumor markers, cardiac markers, lateral flow immunoassay products, blood glucose monitoring systems, and urinalysis products. The company also provides urinalysis reagent strips, breath alcohol detectors, antibodies test kits, urine analyzers, antibody enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test kits, hepatitis B virus EIA test kits, hepatitis C virus antibody EIA test kits, syphilis antibody EIA test kits, antigen test devices, gonorrhea and Chlamydia test strips, gonorrhea test strips, and tuberculosis test devices. In addition, it offers diagnostic rapid test products, which are used to detect pregnancy, ovulation, menopause, HCV, HIV, helicobacter pyloris, malaria, and dengue. The company supplies its products to hospitals, clinical laboratories, blood banks, and consumer outlets. ACON Laboratories sells its products through independent medical distributors in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Russian Federation, and Latin America.

Perceptive Informatics understand that large clinical drug trials need more than little paper cups to dispense pills in. They also need massive information technology support to handle all of the data generated. As a subsidiary of contract research giant PAREXEL, Perceptive Informatics offers data capture and management systems for clinical trials conducted by large biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Its products are used to enroll and keep track of patients, organize trial results, and facilitate communication between participating doctors and trial organizers, as well as other services to speed the clinical-trial stage of drug development. It also manages medical imaging equipment and data for trials.

Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding AG (Santhera) is a Swiss company focused on discovery, development and commercialization of small-molecule pharmaceutical products for the treatment of severe neuromuscular diseases. CATENA is Santhera’s first product approved in Canada for symptomatic treatment of Friedreich's ataxia. Santhera has five clinical-stage development programs, three of which investigate its core compound, SNT-MC17/idebenon, in the treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy. Another clinical program investigates JP-1730/fipamezole in the treatment of dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease. The fifth program concerns congenital muscular dystrophies. It operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Santhera Pharmaceuticals (Schweiz) AG, engaged in research and development of pharmaceuticals, Santhera Pharmaceuticals (Canada), Inc., active in marketing and sales of pharmaceuticals, and Santhera Pharmaceuticals (USA), Inc.

Myriad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in discovering, developing, and commercializing novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of diseases with high unmet need, including cancer and HIV infection. Its pipeline includes clinical and pre-clinical product candidates with mechanisms of action and novel chemical structures. The company's product candidates in clinical development include Azixa (MPC-6827), which is under Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme and metastatic melanoma; MPC-4326 for HIV-1 infection under Phase IIb clinical trial; and MPC-3100, a Phase I clinical trial product candidate for cancer treatment. Its products in preclinical programs comprise MPI-443803, an orally available, brain penetrant, microtubule destabilizing agent for the treatment of cancer; and MPI-461359, an orally available maturation inhibitor for the treatment of HIV-1 infection, as well as MPI-479605 for the treatment of cancer. The company also offers ProNet, a proprietary database of protein-protein interactions, which encompasses interactions between approximately 10 million protein fragments constructed from various organ tissues, including heart, brain, kidney, liver, breast, and prostate. Myriad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dey, L.P. company, a subsidiary of generic drugmaker Mylan, makes prescription drugs for the treatment of allergies and respiratory diseases. Dey markets EpiPen autoinjectors, used by patients to self-administer epinephrine for severe allergic reactions. Its premeasured unit-dose inhalation products include treatments for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These treatments, called bronchodialators, are used in air-driven breathing devices called nebulizers and include branded DuoNeb and Perforomist products. It also offers several non-branded generic nebulizer treatments. A direct sales force markets Dey's products to doctors, pharmacies, and wholesalers.

Lonza Biologics plc, one of The Lonza Group's four biologic contracting manufacturing sites, is a leading contract manufacturer of monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, and diagnostic monoclonal antibodies that are used to produce pharmaceuticals. Lonza Biologics conducts research and development on mammalian cell culturing involving cloning from non-animal origins. From its manufacturing facility near London, the company also supplies its products to other biotechnology companies.

Amylin Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1987 and is based in San Diego, California. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other diseases. As of December 31, 2008, the Company was marketing two medicines to treat diabetes: BYETTA (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN (pramlintide acetate) injection. In addition to its marketed products, the Company is working with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Alkermes, Inc. (Alkermes) to develop exenatide once weekly. The Company maintains a discovery research program focused on peptide and protein therapeutics.

Amarin Corporation plc (Amarin) is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company with a focus on cardiovascular disease. Amarin has a range of clinical and preclinical stage compounds to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including Huntington’s disease, myasthenia gravis and Parkinson’s disease. Its cardiovascular programs and non-core CNS programs include AMR101, EN101, Sublingual Apomorphine and AMR 103. The Company's subsidiaries include Amarin Neuroscience Limited, Amarin Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited, Amarin Pharma Inc, Amarin Finance Limited and Ester Neurosciences Limited.

Johnson & Johnson company was founded in 1886 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies. The Company operates in three segments. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s healthcare fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. The Pharmaceutical segment includes products in the therapeutic areas, such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, urology and virology. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment includes a range of products distributed to wholesalers, hospitals and retailers. In July 2009, Johnson & Johnson completed the acquisition of Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. with approximately 95.9% interest in Cougar Biotechnology's outstanding common stock.

SIGA Technologies was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York. SIGA Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of anti-infectives and antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of serious infectious diseases. SIGA company focus on products for use in defense against biological warfare agents, such as smallpox, arenaviruses (hemorrhagic fevers), and other category A viral agents. Its lead product, ST-246, is an orally administered anti-viral drug that targets orthopox viruses. SIGA's product candidates also include ST-294 and ST-193, which demonstrates antiviral activity in cell culture assays against arenavirus pathogens; and ST-669, a broad spectrum antiviral candidate, for various viruses in the Poxviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Arenaviridae, Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Retroviridae, and Picornaviridae families. In addition, it also has four drug series in the pre-clinical development stage, including ST-610 and ST-148 for dengue virus of the genus Flavivirus. SIGA company has license agreements, collaborative research arrangements, and contracts with National Institutes of Health and the United States Air Force.

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