Phase Bioscience is a biotechnology firm that has developed a technology utilizing genetically-engineered biopolymer peptides (ELPs) that changes solubility (from a liquid to a solid and back) based on the temperature and the salt content of the solution. Known as deltaPhase, Phase Bioscience's ELPs are designed to be used by pharmaceutical researchers in drug discovery processes and in life science applications, including recombinant protein purification (isolating a particular protein in a solution) and enzyme biocatalysts (isolating a particular recombinant enzyme in a solution).

Boiron believes in nature's cures. The company makes homeopathic remedies to combat such maladies as colds, the flu, allergies, and anxiety. Founded in 1911, it is one of the oldest and largest such firms in Europe. It dominates its home market of France and also operates in Africa, Australia, North and South America, and the Middle East through about 20 subsidiaries. Along with homeopathic remedies, Boiron develops personal, animal care, and nutritional products for sale in some markets, including France (but not the US). One of the company's key products is Oscillococcinum six-dose homeopathic flu medicine. Used throughout the world, Oscillo is one of the largest homeopathic flu medicines in the US.

Isagenix International company develops and manufactures a range of health and wellness products from nutritional and dietary supplements to skin care products and systems. Isagenix's line of "Nutritional Cleansing" products help improve health by accelerating the removal of impurities from the body and by replacing the impurities with nutrients to revive health. The company also offers dietary supplements to help customers lose weight and increase energy. A network marketing enterprise, Isagenix provides the products and sales support services to its international network of associates, relying on its associates to sell the products and recruit new associates.

Actelion Ltd is a Swiss biopharmaceutical company with a global presence that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of treatments to serve unmet medical needs. Its products specialize in conditions related to the endothelium, the single layer of cells separating every blood vessel from the blood stream. The Company has three approved drugs on the market. Tracleer, an orally available dual endothelin receptor antagonist, has been approved as a therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension, a chronic, life-threatening disorder that severely compromises the functions of the lungs and heart. The second product, Zavesca, was in-licensed from Oxford GlycoSciences. Zavesca is an approved oral treatment for type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare debilitating metabolic disorder. Ventavis, the third product, is an inhaled synthetic analogue of prostacyclin that produces potent pulmonary vasodilation and inhibits platelet aggregation, among other benefits.

Galapagos has formed its own archipelago of drugs to treat bone and joint ailments and other diseases. The company uses its proprietary genomic drug-discovery technology to develop medicines to treat rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis. Galapagos' pharma services subsidiaryBioFocus DPI offers collaborative drug-discovery services to other pharmaceutical companies. Its drug discovery division works with partners to find, test, and market new drugs. The company's pharmaceutical collaborators include top drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, and Janssen Pharmaceutica, part of Johnson & Johnson. Galapagos has about 40 projects in its R&D pipeline, most of them through these partnerships.

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina has manufacturing and supply operations, as well as units devoted to consumer healthcare (dermatological, analgesic, oral care, gastrointestinal relief, and vitamin products) and to pharmaceutical products (anesthetic, antibiotic, oncologic, respiratory, and other drugs, as well as vaccines). A unit of GlaxoSmithKline, GSK Argentina also conducts research and pharmaceutical trials for its parent. Areas of focus include rheumatoid arthritis, epilepsy, diabetes, oncology, and Alzheimer's. The company's manufacturing and supply operations operate a production facility and export GSK goods to other parts of Central America.

NexMed, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in San Diego, California. NexMed, Inc. is a pharmaceutical and medical technology company with a focus on developing and commercializing therapeutic products based on its delivery systems. The Company focuses its efforts on new and topical pharmaceutical products based on a penetration enhancement drug delivery technology known as NexACT, which may enable an active drug to be better absorbed through the skin. The NexACT transdermal drug delivery technology is designed to enhance the absorption of an active drug through the skin, overcoming the skin’s natural barrier properties, and enabling high concentrations of the active drug to rapidly penetrate the desired site of the skin or extremity. In December 2009, the Company closed its acquisition of Bio-Quant, Inc., a research organization for in vitro and in vivo contract drug discovery and pre-clinical development services.

The revolution in genomics and proteomics spawned by the human genome project is providing a steady stream of protein therapeutic candidates. Many of these proteins require enhancements in their pharmacokinetic properties in order to be clinically effective because of inherent limitations of proteins as drugs. Advanced Proteome Therapeutics has initiated a program that is broadly applicable to proteins. It builds on a technology platform developed over twenty years of targeting proteins for site-selective modification and addresses issues which limit therapeutic utilization of promising proteins.The Company’s laboratories are located at the BioSquare Innovation and Discovery Center on the campus of the Boston University School of Medicine. Its scientists are engaged in research and development applying leading edge chemical and biochemical methodologies to commercially viable proteins. The technology is applicable to the generation of a variety of protein products including protein therapeutics, protein diagnostics and high value reagents for research.

MorphoSys is a biotechnology firm with a human touch. Using its proprietary HuCAL catalog of fully human antibodies, the company is helping the world's largest drug firms develop human antibody therapies for a wide range of diseases. It helps its pharmaceutical clients in a number of ways: one, by installing its HuCAL library and related technology at customer sites in return for licensing fees; and second, by working in partnership with drug firms to develop potential antibody therapies. Its client list is a Who's Who of Big Pharma and includes Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, and Merck. MorphoSys also makes human antibodies (under the brand name AbD-Serotec) and sells them to researchers.

Genzyme and Medtronic are out to prove that it doesn't just take time to heal a broken heart. The two companies' joint venture, MG Biotherapeutics, was created in 2004 to develop new treatments for heart attacks and other cardiovascular conditions. The company in 2006 ceased enrollment of new patients in its Phase II clinical trial, which had been testing the use of cell therapy to repair damaged heart tissue following a heart attack, after evidence showed the trial would not be successful. MG Biotherapeutics is also engaged in long-term research into next-generation cell therapies and is developing a less-invasive, catheter-based delivery system for cell therapy using Medtronic's TransAccess technology.

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