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.

Akorn, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois. Akorn, Inc. manufactures and markets diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceuticals in the areas of ophthalmology, rheumatology, anesthesia, and antidotes in the United States. The company's Ophthalmic Segment markets diagnostic products, including mydriatics and cycloplegics, anesthetics, topical stains, gonioscopic solutions, and angiography dyes, which are used in the office setting. It also sells therapeutic products, such as antibiotics, anti-infectives, steroids, steroid combinations, glaucoma medications, decongestants/antihistamines, and anti-edema medications to wholesalers and other national account customers. In addition, this segment offers non-pharmaceutical products, including various artificial tear solutions, preservative-free lubricating ointments, eyelid cleansers, vitamin supplements, and contact lens accessories. The company's Hospital Drugs and Injectables Segment markets specialty injectable pharmaceutical products, including antidotes and anesthesia, as well as products used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and pain management. It markets products to hospitals through wholesalers and other national account customers, as well as directly to medical specialists. The company's Biologics and Vaccines Segment markets adult Tetanus-Diphtheria vaccines directly to hospitals and physicians, as well as through wholesalers and national distributors. Its Contract Services Segment manufactures products for third party pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers. The company also markets and distributes vaccines purchased from outside sources. Its customers include physicians, optometrists, hospitals, wholesalers, group purchasing organizations, and other pharmaceutical companies.

Essential Nutrition Ltd. was founded in 1989. Essential Nutrition offers research, testing, and manufacturing services to drug companies. The UK-based firm estimates its manufacturing capacity to be up to 8.5 million tablets per day. The company also produces its own brand of health food supplements which it markets online. It partners with various agronomy firms to determine optimum location and growth cycles for its herbal medicine crops, and it has developed nutritional research with universities throughout the UK and US. Essential Nutrition is family owned and operated.

Tengion, Inc., a regenerative medicine company, focuses on discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a range of replacement organs and tissues, or neo-organs and neo-tissues to address unmet medical needs in urologic, renal, gastrointestinal and vascular diseases. It creates these functional neo-organs and neo-tissues using a patient’s own cells, or autologous cells, in conjunction with the company’s Organ Regeneration Platform. The company’s lead product candidate, the Neo-Urinary Conduit, is an autologous implant that catalyzes regeneration of native-like bladder tissue for bladder cancer patients requiring a urinary diversion following bladder removal, or cystectomy. Its product pipeline also includes various candidates in early stage development, such as Neo-Kidney Augment for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, or CKD. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in East Norriton, Pennsylvania.

Gilead Palo Alto (formerly CV Therapeutics) is honed in on cardiovascular research. The drug development company specializes in pharmaceuticals to treat chronic cardiovascular diseases. The firm's drug Ranexa, licensed from a Roche subsidiary, is FDA-approved as a first-line and second-line treatment for patients with chronic angina (chest pain). Gilead Palo Alto won approval for its cardiac imaging agent, Lexiscan, in 2008; the drug is marketed by Astellas Pharma. The company is developing potential therapies for ailments including heart failure and atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat). Gilead Palo Alto changed its name from CV Therapeutics after being acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2009.

Protide Pharmaceuticals is pro-cell. The firm focuses on developing new technologies for cellular and transfusion therapies, including gene therapies, to treat cancer and genetic disorders and to improve cell transplantation and engineering. To fund its work, Protide sells nearly 20 products under the Celox Laboratories brand to its academic, drug, and diagnostic research clients around the world. These products include serum-free growth mediums and supplements, as well as solutions used to cryopreserve cells and tissues. ICN Pharmaceuticals has a non-exclusive global marketing agreement for certain products. Protide also has a private-label manufacturing deal with a division of Sigma-Aldrich.

NeurogesX, Inc. (NeurogesX) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing pain management therapies. The Company is assembling a portfolio of pain management product candidates and is developing new therapies based on known chemical entities. Its initial focus is on the management of chronic peripheral neuropathic pain conditions. The Company’s most advanced product candidate, Qutenza, a dermal patch containing a high concentration of synthetic capsaicin, is designed to manage pain associated with peripheral neuropathic pain conditions. The Company submitted to the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) an new drug application (NDA) for Qutenza for the management of pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), in October 2008 which was filed by the FDA in December 2008. The Company's Products include Qutenza, NGX-1998, Acetaminophen Prodrugs (NGX-1576, NGX-9674, NGX-5752) and Opioid Prodrugs (NGX-6052).

Nature's Way Holding Company manufactures and markets nutritional supplements and other OTC products which are sold with the Enzymatic Therapy, Nature's Way, and Remifemin labels through natural foods retailers and mass market retailers in the US. Its products are aimed to alleviate everything from sleeplessness to hot flashes and are distributed throughout the US and to more than 40 other countries. Its Integrative Therapeutics and Vitaline brands are sold through healthcare practitioners' offices. The company is a unit of German firm Dr. Willmar Schwabe Pharmaceuticals.

GeoPharma, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Largo, Florida. GeoPharma, Inc. is engaged in manufacturing, packaging and distributing private label dietary supplements, generic drugs, and health and beauty products under six of its companies, Innovative Health Products, Inc., Libi Labs, Belcher Pharmaceuticals, Inc., American Antibiotics, LLC and EZ-Med. Innovative Health Products and Libi Labs specialize in the development and manufacture of a range of nutritional supplements and cosmeceuticals. Its subsidiaries include Belcher Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Go2PBM Services, Inc., IHP Marketing, Inc., Breakthrough Marketing, Inc., Belcher Capital Corporation, American Antibiotics, LLC, Libi Labs, Inc., EZ-Med Company (EZ-Med) and Dynamic Health Products, Inc. Effective March 31, 2009, the Company discontinued its Distribution segment, which includes Breakthrough Engineered Nutrition.

Zeltia SA is a Spain-based holding company primarily engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Its main subsidiaries are: PharmaMar SA, biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing the treatment of cancer; Noscira SA, engaged in the research and development of innovative drugs for diseases of the nervous system; Genomica SAU, specializes in molecular diagnosis; Sylentis SAU, focused on the discovering and developing new therapeutic approaches based on gene silencing techniques; Zelnova SA, which produces and markets cleaning products for household and cetring sectors; and Xylazel SA, producer of paints, varnishes, wood and metal protectors for the industrial sector.

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