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.

Quintiles Transnational has plenty to CRO about. One of the world's top contract research organizations (CROs), with operations in more than 50 countries, it helps drug and medical device companies develop and sell their products. The firm provides a comprehensive range of clinical trials management services, including patient recruitment, data analysis, laboratory testing, and regulatory filing. Its consulting unit offers strategic advice at every stage of drug discovery and development, and its Innovex subsidiary is a contract sales organization providing sales personnel to promote approved products. An investment group led by founder and CEO Dennis Gillings owns the company.

Indiana Botanic Gardens makes, markets, and sells herbal supplements, cosmetics, and other natural products.Its Botanic Choice and Botanic Spa lines feature such exotic ingredients as hoodia (an African desert plant), Indian Water Hyssop, and emu oil. In all, it sells about 1,700 items to customers throughout the US and abroad. The company does most of its business through its mail-order catalogue and online retail site; it also operates a retail store and offers wholesale sales for other retailers. Joseph E. Meyer, author of the classic reference book The Herbalist, founded Indiana Botanic Gardens in 1910. His great-grandson Tim Cleland is the company's president.

SSCI, Inc. company provides research, analytical, and consulting services to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. For its drugmaker customers, the R&D firm offers drug formulation, stabilization, engineering services, and regulatory consulting, all which allow pharmaceutical companies to speed up the development process, which can last as long as 15 years. SSCI's analysis services include moisture and organic vapor sorption and desorption studies, thermal analysis, and micromeritics, or the characterization of the surface of a solid. SSCI is a subsidiary of pharmaceutical services firm Aptuit.

Neos Therapeutics makes generic drugs take their time. The contract pharmaceutical manufacturer develops and manufactures branded and generic prescription and OTC pharmaceuticals with an emphasis on time-released formulations. Its products include cold and cough remedies and nutritional supplements. Customers are primarily pharmaceutical distributors and other manufacturers. Neos Therapeutics was slapped hard by the FDA in 2007 for manufacturing unapproved drugs. The action prompted a change in ownership and the company was required to re-file its drug applications in order to resume manufacturing.

Minster Pharmaceuticals plc, through its subsidiary, Minster Research Limited, develops pharmaceutical compounds for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric conditions in the United Kingdom. Its products pipeline comprises Tonabersat, which is in Phase IIb clinical trial for the prevention and treatment of migraine; and Sabcomeline, a Phase IIa clinical trial product for the management of cognitive decline and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. The company is based in Saffron Walden, the United Kingdom.

Ranbaxy UK Ltd. company began its operations in Britain in 1994. Ranbaxy UK hopes to run the British generic pharmaceuticals market. Ranbaxy company, a subsidiary of Indian drug firm Ranbaxy Laboratories, offers a wide variety of generic drugs in the UK for central nervous system disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and anti-infectives. Some of the company's products include Easyhaler (an inhaler for respiratory problems), Visclair (for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and Distaclor-MR (for respiratory tract infections). Ranbaxy UK represents a major foothold for the group's operations in Europe.

IGI Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Buena, New Jersey. IGI Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, filling, and packaging of topical, semi solid, and liquid products for pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, and cosmetic companies. The company focuses on the commercialization of its licensed Novasome encapsulation technology for skin care/treatment products. It licenses the Novasome encapsulation technology from Novavax, Inc. for applications in animal pharmaceuticals, biologicals, and other animal health products; foods, food applications, nutrients, and flavorings; cosmetics, consumer products, and dermatological over-the-counter and prescription products; fragrances; and chemicals, including herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, paints and coatings, photographic chemicals, and other specialty chemicals, as well as the processes for making the same. The company was formerly known as IGI, Inc. and changed its name to IGI Laboratories, Inc. in May 2008.

Prometheus company markets several drugs that treat gastrointestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis. Its Entocort, which it co-promotes with AstraZeneca, is a steroid that reduces the bowel inflammation associated with Crohn's disease. Prometheus Laboratories markets its products mainly to US gastroenterologists. It also pairs its drug offerings with a diagnostic testing service that helps doctors differentiate between various gastrointestinal diseases and prescribe the right Prometheus remedy; it runs all of its tests at its San Diego lab facility. Prometheus company plans to conduct an IPO.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases worldwide. Its product pipeline includes Telaprevir, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; VX-813, a Phase Ia clinical trial product for chronic HCV infection; VX-985, which is under preclinical trails for chronic HCV infection; VX-770, a Phase IIa clinical trial candidate for the treatment of Cystic fibrosis; VX-809, a Phase Ib clinical trial product for the treatment of Cystic fibrosis; VX-509, a Phase Ia clinical trial product for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases; MK-5108 (VX-689), a Phase I clinical trial product for the treatment of cancer; and AVN-944(VX-944), which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer. The company also has development and commercial rights to VX-702 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. It has collaboration agreements with Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Incorporated; Merck & Co., Inc.; Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline plc.; and Bend Research Inc.

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