Aspreva Pharmaceuticals believes that bad aim can be a good thing when treating diseases. This company conducts clinical trials to find new uses for approved drugs. As a result, partners team up with Aspreva to gain incremental revenue from the commercialization of the new version of the drug. Working in collaboration with Roche, Aspreva conducts clinical trials to investigate the use of Roche's CellCept (indicated for prevention of rejection in organ transplant patients) to treat autoimmune diseases including lupus nephritis and pemphigus vulgaris. Aspreva is a subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical firm Galenica Group.

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. provides research models and laboratory animal support expertise to help its global partners advance their research and drug development efforts. The company offers a portfolio of services to support discovery and imaging, preclinical and early-phase clinical studies, and biopharmaceutical and endotoxin products and services for manufacturing and quality control. Its portfolio spans the entire research and drug development process, from IND consultation to discovery through market approval, allowing customized approaches to support both single-study or broad-based programs. Charles River Laboratories International serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as government agencies, hospitals, and academic institutions.

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation company was formed in 1999; funding partners include InterWest Partners, InterSouth Partners, and MedImmune Ventures. Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC) applies itself to developing gene therapies for acquired and inherited genetic diseases. Its lead product is a treatment for Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency, which is an inherited cause of emphysema that is the most common hereditary disease in the Western World. Aside from causing lung disease in adults, it can also lead to liver disease in children. AGTC is also developing a treatment for Leber Congenital Amaurosis, which causes blindness, in collaboration with the universities of Florida and Pennsylvania, and Cornell University.

Photopharmica Ltd. discovers and develops photo sensitizers and light sources for medical use in the United Kingdom. The company develops anti-infective agents primarily for dermatology and wound management markets; and medical devices in the fields of orthopedics and periodontal equipment. Its products pipeline includes phenothiazinium photo sensitizers for use as topical therapeutic antimicrobial agents; phenothiazinium photo sensitizers for systemic oncology use; and phthalocyanine photo sensitizers that combine anti-tumor properties with minimal or zero skin photo sensitization. Photopharmica Ltd. was founded in 2001 and is based in Leeds, the United Kingdom.

Botanical Laboratories was founded in 1988 and is led by CEO Jim Thornton, a long-time venture capital investor in the consumer health care sector. Botanical Laboratories, Inc. (BLI) is your garden-variety nutritional supplement maker. It manufactures its own branded nutritional supplements and also offers private label manufacturing of nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies. BLI's consumer products include dietary supplements distributed under its Wellesse brand and sold at retail food and drug stores, such as CVS and Costco. From capsule to carton, its contract manufacturing division offers customers turnkey production and packaging, development, quality control, and testing services nationwide.

MediGene develops drugs that save lives or just make life easier. Spun off from the Munich Gene Center in 1994, MediGene focuses its R&D efforts on therapies that battle various forms of cancer and autoimmune conditions. It also has several drugs on the market, many of them sold through partnerships with other drug firms. The company's Eligard treatment for prostate cancer is sold in Europe by Astellas Pharma, and its Veregen ointment for genital warts is on the US market (Bradley Pharmaceuticals (now part of Nycomed US) sells the drug). In 2008 MediGene won approval from European regulatory authorities for Oracea, a treatment for rosacea; it sold European marketing rights for the drug to Galderma Laboratories.

Metabolex, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Hayward, California. Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of type II diabetes and related metabolic disorders. The company’s products include MBX-102/JNJ 39659100, an oral small-molecule insulin sensitizer; MBX-8025, which is intended for the treatment of dyslipidemia; MBX-2982, which is an agonist of GPR119, a G-protein coupled receptor that is expressed in pancreatic islets and the gastrointestinal tract; and MBX-2044, a second generation insulin sensitizer.

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. company was founded in 1981 and is based in Tustin, California. Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and manufacture of monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer and viral infections. The company develops clinical programs with its novel compounds bavituximab and Cotara, which are the clinical candidates under its anti-phosphatidylserine therapeutics and tumor necrosis therapy platforms. Its pipeline products comprise Bavituximab Plus Docetaxel, and Bavituximab plus carboplatin and paclitaxel, which are Phase II clinical trial products for treating advanced breast cancer patients; and Bavituximab plus carboplatin and paclitaxel, a Phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, as well as Bavituximab, which is in Phase I monotherapy repeat dose safety study for treating solid tumor cancers, and in Phase Ib repeat dose safety study for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection co-infected with HIV. In addition, its pipeline products include Cotara, a product in Phase II, as well as a dosimetry and dose confirmation study for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Further, Peregrine, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Avid Bioservices, Inc., provides contract manufacturing services for biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies, from pre-clinical drug supplies up through commercial-scale drug manufacture. Further, it provides services in support of Peregrine's product pipeline, including manufacture and scale-up of pre-clinical and clinical drug supplies.

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.

meros Corporation was founded in 1994 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Omeros Corporation is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering, developing and commercializing products focused on inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system. The Company’s clinically advanced product candidates are derived from its PharmacoSurgerytm platform designed to improve the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing arthroscopic, ophthalmological, urological and other surgical and medical procedures. Its PharmacoSurgery platform is based on low-dose combinations of therapeutic agents delivered directly to the surgical site throughout the duration of the procedure to preemptively inhibit inflammation and other problems caused by surgical trauma and to provide clinical benefits both during and after surgery.

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