Hana Biosciences, Inc. company was founded in 2002 and is based in South San Francisco, California. Hana Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on acquiring, developing, and commercializing products for the foundation of cancer care. The company develops Optisome encapsulated formulation product candidates and a supportive care product candidate. Optisomal encapsulation is a method of liposomal drug delivery, which is designed to increase tumor targeting and duration of exposure for cell-cycle specific anticancer agents. Its Optisome encapsulated formulation product candidates include Marqibo, a vincristine sulfate liposomes injection for the treatment of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia and metastatic uveal melanoma; Brakiva, a topotecan liposomes injection for the treatment of solid tumors, including small cell lung cancer and ovarian cancer; and Alocrest, a vinorelbine liposomes injection, which is used in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. The company's supportive care product candidate comprises Menadione Topical Lotion, a novel supportive care product candidate for the prevention and/or treatment of the skin toxicities associated with the use of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors, which are used in the treatment of lung, colon, head and neck, and pancreatic cancer.

Coating Place, Inc. is a privately owned contract manufacturing organization specializing in pharmaceutical grade Wurster fluid bed coating services for encapsulation/microencapsulation of solid particulate materials such as powders, granules, crystals, and capsules. Services offered include pharmaceutical GMP contract manufacturing, process validation, technology transfer, scale-up, formulation development, feasibility studies, and GMP analytical laboratory support.Applications include controlled oral delivery such as enteric, delayed, or sustained release, taste, odor masking, and moisture or oxygen barrier application for Rx prescription, OTC, and controlled substance markets. Facilities are permitted for solvent applications; thus, allowing solvent, aqueous, and hot melt Wurster processing.

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.

The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research blazes new trails in bioscience. The organization, funded by both the public and private sectors, investigates such diseases as Parkinson's and cancer and dives into the depths of biology, genomics, and genetics to gain new understanding about disease and health. The Whitehead Institute contributed to the international effort to map the human genome, and is actively researching stem cells. Other achievements include discovering a system for multiplying adult stem cells and creating the first genetically defined human cancer cell. The institute was founded in 1982 by philanthropist Edwin "Jack" Whitehead and draws researchers from MIT.

Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Accentia) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of late-stage, targeted therapeutic clinical products in the areas of respiratory disease and oncology. The Company operates in two segments: Biopharmaceutical Products and Services, and Specialty Pharmaceuticals. The Biopharmaceutical Products and Services segment develops late-stage biopharmaceutical products with an emphasis on the respiratory and oncology therapeutic areas. The products developed in this segment are SinuNase, BiovaxID and Revimmune. This segment also includes the Company’s consulting business, which provides a range of services relating to biopharmaceutical product development, and its biologics products business. The Specialty Pharmaceuticals segment markets and sells pharmaceutical products that are developed primarily by its third-party development partners. In this segment, Accentia sells the Respi~TANN, SinuTest and Zinotic.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health company develops, manufactures, and markets veterinary vaccines and pharmaceutical products. Its product portfolio includes vaccines for use in pets, livestock, poultry and aquaculture; treatment lines include antiparasitics, anti-infectives, and endocrine products. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health also develops feed additives and animal productivity enhancers. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health operates in more than 50 countries and sells its products around the world. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health company is a subsidiary of Merck.

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including renal disease and cancer. Its products under development include Zerenex, an oral iron-based compound is in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with end-stage renal disease in the United States and Japan; and KRX-0401, an oral anti-cancer agent in Phase II clinical development that modulates Akt, and various other key signal transduction pathways, including the JNK and MAPK pathways, which are pathways associated with programmed cell death, cell growth, cell differentiation, and cell survival. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals has strategic alliances with AEterna Zentaris Inc.; Panion & BF Biotech, Inc.; Japan Tobacco Inc.; and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and commercialization of its products.

VioQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of clinical stage drug therapies targeting both the molecular basis of cancer and side effects of cancer treatment. The Company’s lead compound under development is Xyfid (1% topical uracil) for the treatment and prevention of Hand-Foot Syndrome (HFS). In parallel, Xyfid is also being developed to treat dry skin conditions and manage the burning and itching associated with various diseases of the skin or dermatoses. In addition, VioQuest Pharmaceuticals is developing VQD-002 (triciribine phosphate monohydrate or TCN-P), a small molecule anticancer compound that inhibits activation of protein kinase B (PKB or AKT), a key component of a signaling pathway known to promote cancer cell growth and survival, as well as resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. On July 16, 2007, the Company completed the sale of Chiral Quest, Inc. to Chiral Quest Acquisition Corp.

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. company was founded in 1997 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. operates as a specialty pharmaceutical company in the United States. Its patented drug delivery technologies include BEMA drug delivery technology and Bioral cochleate drug delivery technology. The company, using its drug delivery technologies, develops formulations of pharmaceuticals aimed principally at short term acute conditions occurring in patients, primarily in the areas of pain and fungal infections. Its lead product is ONSOLIS, a treatment for pain in opioid tolerant patients with cancer. BioDelivery Sciences licensed the commercialization and distribution rights for ONSOLIS to Meda AB.BioDelivery Sciences Company's products/formulations also include BEMA Buprenorphine, which is under preparation for phase 2 for moderate to severe and acute pain. Its lead Bioral formulation is an encochleated version of Amphotericin B, an anti-fungal treatment for systemic fungal infections. The company also has a Bioral formulation, which is in initial in vitro studies for the intranasal administration of Amphotericin B to treat chronic rhinosinusitis. BioDelivery Sciences has a research collaboration and licensing agreement with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to develop Bioral Amphotericin B for the treatment of neglected diseases, such as leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.

Proteome Sciences plc is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company is principally engaged in biomarker research and development primarily in the field of applied proteomics, using techniques to detect and characterize differentially expressed proteins in diseases for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applications. Through its ProteoSHOP toolkit, Proteome Sciences provides proteomics solutions, including traditional two dimensional gel-based electrophoresis (2DE) and gel-free protein sequence tag technologies (PST, qPST& TMT), to pharma, biotechnology and diagnostic companies. The Company has research facilities in London, the United Kingdom and Frankfurt, Germany. Its subsidiaries include Proteome Sciences R&D Verwaltungs GmbH, Proteome Sciences R&D GmbH & Co. KG, Xzillion GmbH & Co. KG, Proteome Sciences, Inc., Veri-Q Inc., Phenomics Limited and Electrophoretics Limited.

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