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.

Genfit SA, a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies to reduce the cardiometabolic risk. The company focuses on the discovery and development of new chemical entities treating mainly dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory disorders. It has five programs in clinical phase of which, two are internal projects. The company’s internal projects consist of GFT14 that aims to target one of the major indications of cardiometabolic disease; and GFT505, a multimodal and pluripotent medicine indicated for atherogenic dyslipidemia for a patient who is overweight with or without diabetes. It develops its own drug candidates up to human proof of concept (Phase IIa). Genfit’s pipeline has various modes of action implying multimodal drugs and selective nuclear receptor modulation (SNuRM). The company also establishes partnerships with pharma groups on early-stage drug discovery programs. Its pharma alliances include Merck, Sanofi-Aventis, Solvay, Servier, and Pierre Fabre. Genfit was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Loos, France with an additional office in Cambridge, the United States.

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. is just a subsidiary, but it's still one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the US. As the US operations of European drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis, the company develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceutical products. Its production facility in Kansas City, Missouri, is one of Sanofi-Aventis' primary manufacturing sites, and it produces pharmaceuticals for sale in the US and around the world. Some of its key products include sleep aid Ambien, cancer drug Taxotere, and blood thinner Plavix. Sanofi-Aventis US markets its parent's products in the US through its 8,000 field sales professionals.

Nutra Pharma Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida. Nutra Pharma Corporation operates as a biotechnology company specializing in the acquisition, licensing, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of neurological disorders, cancer, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. The company, through its subsidiaries, carries out basic drug discovery research and clinical development, and also seeks strategic licensing partnerships to reduce the risks associated with the drug development process. Nutra Pharma's wholly-owned drug discovery subsidiary, ReceptoPharm, is developing proprietary therapeutic protein products primarily for the prevention and treatment of viral and neurological diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and pain in humans. Additionally, ReceptoPharm provides contract research services through its ISO class 5 and GMP certified facilities. The company's wholly-owned medical devices subsidiary, Designer Diagnostics, engages in the research and development of diagnostic test kits designed to be used for the rapid identification of infectious diseases, such Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM). Nutra Pharma continues to identify and acquire intellectual property and companies in the biotechnology arena.

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.

Astex Therapeutics (formerly Astex Technology) is working on Pyramids, but on a much, much smaller scale than the Egyptians did. Astex Therapeutics Limited company's Pyramid is a fragment-based drug discovery platform that utilizes X-ray crystallography to develop small molecule drugs. Astex is using the Pyramid platform to develop new therapies for Alzheimer's disease, numerous types of cancers, and chronic inflammation. The company relies in part on a large group of investors for funding. Some of its main investors include Oxford Biosciences, Advent International, Apax, Bayer Schering, and Johnson & Johnson. Astex is collaborating with Novartis andJanssen Pharmaceutica on drugs for the treatment of cancer.

Acurian hopes you can help them find a cure for everything from cancer to anxiety disorders. Acurian company matches up biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies with patients interested in participating in clinical trials for experimental and innovative therapies. The company's website allows interested patients to register their ailments and express their willingness to participate. All this has helped Acurian develop a database of over 50 million interested people, which it connects with about 60 pharma and biotech companies. The company also develops software to help contract research organizations (CROs) manage and track the results of clinical trials.

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. company was founded in 1985. It was formerly known as Clinical Technologies Associates, Inc. and changed its name to Emisphere Technologies, Inc. in 1991. The company is headquartered in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. Emisphere Technologies, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the delivery of therapeutic molecules and pharmaceutical compounds using its ‘eligen’ technology. The eligen technology could be applied to the oral route of administration, as well as the other delivery pathways, such as buccal, rectal, inhalation, intra-vaginal, or transdermal. The company’s product pipeline includes Oral Salmon Calcitonin, which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis; Oral Recombinant Parathyroid Hormone, which is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of osteoporosis; and Oral Heparin that is in Phase III clinical trials, as well as Oral Low Molecular Weight Heparin, which is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its products under development also comprise Oral Insulin, which is in Phase II clinical trials, as well as Oral Glucagon-Like Peptides, which is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of diabetes; Oral Recombinant Human Growth Hormone that is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of growth disorders; and Oral Acyclovir, an anti-viral compound that is in Phase I clinical trials. In addition, the company’s product pipeline consists of Oral PYY 3-36, which is in Phase I clinical trials for treating obesity; Oral Cromolyn Sodium that is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of asthma/allergies; and Oral Gallium, a preclinical stage product candidate, for oncology treatment. Emisphere Technologies has collaboration agreements with Novartis Pharma AG; Roche; and Genta, Inc.

AVAX Technologies company is developing vaccines created by extracting a patient's own cancer cells and chemically treating them to induce an immune system response. The technology used to create the vaccines (called AC Vaccine) is licensed from Thomas Jefferson University. AVAX's lead vaccine candidate M-Vax is intended as a post-surgical treatment for late-stage melanoma, but the company is also developing vaccine candidates to fight ovarian cancer (O-Vax) and non-small cell lung cancer (L-Vax). The company also offers contract manufacturing services to other biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Roche Colorado is one of the research, development, and manufacturing facilities of pharmaceutical giant Roche. Its R&D operations focus on developing efficient and high-quality production processes for manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients and compounds. It has worked to bring to market such drugs as the anti-HIV treatments Fuzeon and Invirase and the influenza drug Tamiflu. Roche Colorado company also provides contract manufacturing of peptides, a protein-like compound used in pharmaceuticals. Roche Colorado is one of several US-based research and production facilities owned by Roche; affiliates include Hoffman-La Roche and Genentech.

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