Trinity Biotech plc was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Bray, Ireland. Trinity Biotech plc develops, acquires, manufactures, distributes, and sells diagnostic test kits and instrumentation worldwide. The company offers clinical laboratory products, including diagnostic tests and instrumentation, which detect infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, blood coagulation, and autoimmune disorders. It also sells raw materials to the life sciences industry. In addition, the company offers point of care diagnostic tests, which are carried out in the presence of the patient, principally to diagnose the presence of HIV antibodies in the patient. Its customers include hospitals, clinical laboratories, commercial reference laboratories, and research institutions. The company sells its products through distributor partners, as well as directly in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Corona, California. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Watson) is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, sale and distribution of brand and generic (off-patent) pharmaceutical products. Watson operates and manages its business as three operating segments: Generic, Brand and Distribution. As of December 31, 2008, the Company marketed approximately 150 generic pharmaceutical product families and 27 brand pharmaceutical product families through its generic and brand divisions, respectively, and distributed approximately 8,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) through its distribution division. The Company’s operations are based predominantly in the United States and India, with its key commercial market being the United States. In December 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Arrow Group. In January 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of Eden Biopharm Group Limited.

Athersys, Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of therapeutic products. Through the application of its technologies, the Company has established a pipeline of therapeutic product development programs in multiple disease areas. The Company’s current product development portfolio consists of MultiStem, a patented and stem cell product that the Company is developing as a treatment for multiple disease indications, and that is being evaluated in two ongoing clinical trials. In addition, the Company are developing novel pharmaceuticals to treat indications such as obesity, certain cognitive and attention disorders, narcolepsy or other forms of excessive daytime sleepiness. In December 2008, the Company were granted authorization by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to initiate a third clinical trial, administering MultiStem for the treatment of ischemic stroke.

Phase 2 Discovery partners with pharmaceutical companies to develop early-stage drug candidates that could treat various central nervous system diseases and conditions. The company also acquires drug candidates, takes them through Phase I and II clinical studies, and then offers the company the option of re-acquiring them Phase 2's goal is to speed up the discovery process for multiple compounds that could aid patients with psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Founded in the early 1900s, LEO Pharma has about two dozen products on the market, many of which treat psoriasis, eczema, and skin infections. The company's other focus areas include developing and manufacturing treatments for blood clot disorders, kidney disease, and support drugs for cancer treatments. Products such as Daivobet, Innohep, and Xamiol are among its best sellers. LEO Pharma has operations in Europe, as well as in the US, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company is wholly-owned by the Leo Foundation, which is managed by members of LEO Pharma's executive team.

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD) provides research and development support for the pharmaceutical business units of parent company, Johnson & Johnson. Its main research processes are divided into three franchises: central nervous system and internal medicine; biotech, immunology, and oncology (through J&J subsidiary Centocor); and virology (through Tibotec). The subsidiary -- which represents the largest segment of J&J's pharmaceutical R&D -- also does research in collaboration with other pharmaceutical organizations and biotech researchers, and has partnerships with the likes of Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Entelos.

Icagen, Inc. company was founded in 1992 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Icagen, Inc. (Icagen) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of orally-administered small molecule drugs that modulate ion channel targets. The Company’s programs include ICA-105665 for epilepsy and neuropathic pain, for which the Company is conducting a Phase I multiple ascending dose study in healthy volunteers and epilepsy patients and Senicapoc, previously referred to as ICA-17043, for asthma, for which the Company is conducting two Phase II proof-of-concept clinical trials.

Delcath Systems, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in New York, New York. Delcath Systems, Inc., a development stage company, develops and manufactures devices to administer high dose chemotherapy and other therapeutic agents directly to diseased organs or regions of the body. It focuses on the development of the Delcath PHP System, a Phase III clinical trial product, which isolates the liver from the patient's general circulatory system and delivers high dose of melphalan hydrochloride or other therapeutic agents directly to the liver. The Delcath PHP System kit includes an arterial infusion catheter, a multi-passageway/double balloon catheter, a blood tubing/extracorporeal filtration circuit, two activated carbon hemoperfusion filters, a return catheter/a thin-walled blood sheath, and a series of introducers and related accessories to properly place the catheters. The company also conducts Phase II clinical trials to test the Delcath PHP System with the drug melphalan against liver cancer/hepatocellular tumors, neuroendocrine and adenocarcinoma tumors that have spread to the liver, and melanomas metastatic to the liver that have received prior regional treatment. It has a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute to develop and evaluate the Delcath PHP System device to deliver high-dose melphalan to patients, and to evaluate the use of additional chemotherapy agents with the Delcath PHP System.

Genzyme Corporation (Genzyme) is a biotechnology company. Genzyme operates in four segments: Genetic Diseases, Cardiometabolic and Renal, Biosurgery and Hematologic Oncology. Genetic Diseases unit develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases, including a family of diseases known as lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs). Cardiometabolic and Renal segment develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure and endocrine and cardiovascular diseases. Biosurgery segment develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial-based products, with a focus on products that meet medical needs in the orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Hematologic Oncology segment develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

Evotec AG (Evotec) is a drug discovery and development company focused on small molecule therapeutics. Evotec is developing treatments for diseases in the areas of neuroscience, pain, and inflammation. Evotec’s portfolio comprises five clinical drug candidates: EVT 101, a subtype selective NMDA receptor antagonist with potential for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, pain and depression, EVT 201, a partial positive allosteric modulator (pPAM) of the GABAA receptor complex for the treatment of insomnia, EVT 302, a MAO-B inhibitor in development for smoking cessation, a P2X7 antagonist for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, and a small molecule vanilloid receptor (VR1) antagonist for the treatment of pain in partnership with Pfizer. Evotec’s late stage preclinical research programs focus on EVT 103, a back-up compound to EVT 101, H3 antagonists for the treatment of cognitive disorders and/or sleep, as well as antagonists for the purinergic receptor P2X3 for the treatment of pain.

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