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.

Santa Cruz, California might be known for its sun-baked bodies; Santa Cruz Biotechnology is known for its antibodies. The company makes antibodies used by researchers to identify and treat a variety of conditions. Its products include growth factor antibodies, steroid receptor antibodies, and tumor suppressor antibodies. The company also offers more than 10,000 target-specific small interfering RNA (siRNA), which are used to silence genes. Its siRNAs are designed to silence tumors suppressor proteins, cell cycle proteins, and lymphocyte signaling proteins, among others. Santa Cruz Biotechnology has offices in California, Japan, and Germany and sells its products through distributors worldwide.

GenVec, Inc. company was founded in 1992 and is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. GenVec, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, develops gene-based therapeutic drugs and vaccines in the United States. Its lead therapeutic product candidate, TNFerade biologic, is under Phase III trial for first-line treatment of inoperable, locally advanced pancreatic cancer. The company is also evaluating TNFerade biologic, wfor the treatment of various cancers, including esophageal cancer, rectal cancer, and head and neck cancer. In addition, it is developing TherAtoh, a preclinical program involving the delivery of the human atonal gene for the production of therapeutic proteins by cells in the inner ear. Further, GenVec uses its proprietary adenovector technology to develop vaccines for infectious diseases, including HIV, malaria, foot-and-mouth disease, respiratory syncytial virus, and HSV-2. It has strategic alliances and research contracts with the U.S. department of homeland security, the U.S. department of agriculture, PATH'S malaria vaccine initiative, the U.S. naval medical research center, and the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

Founded in 1929, the not-for-profit organization is a leading researcher of human diseases, their causes, and their potential cures. Much of its research into mammalian genetics is focused on mice, which share a similar genetic makeup to humans. In addition to its own research in areas such as cancer, immunology, and metabolic disease, the organization maintains colonies of mice and supplies them under the brand name JAX to other laboratories around the globe. Additionally, The Jackson Laboratory offers educational programs -- including internships, workshops, and predoctoral programs -- for both current and future scientists.

William Ransom & Son plc is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in the supply of branded natural health products, vitamins and food supplements, the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and the extraction of plant material for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries. The Company operates in three divisions: consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical and natural products. Consumer healthcare includes the sale of consumer-branded healthcare products. The pharmaceutical division includes the manufacture of its own Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)-licensed products, as well as pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter products for third parties. The natural products division includes the manufacture of botanical extracts used as ingredients by the pharmaceutical division and sold to third parties.

Scios Inc. company, a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson, develops treatments targeting cardiovascular disease. Its flagship product Natrecor is an intravenously administered drug approved by the FDA for treating patients with acute heart failure who also experience shortness of breath with minimal activity. When the drug was introduced in 2001, it was the first new treatment for heart failure in more than 14 years. The drug is not without controversy, about both its long-term health effects and the company's marketing of it. Scios maintains the drug is safe and has launched a large clinical trial.

Antisoma plc company was founded in 1988. Antisoma is anti-cancer. The drug development firm scouts academic or cancer research institutions for promising new oncology drug candidates and snaps them up. Once the drugs are in its pipeline, Antisoma conducts preclinical and clinical trials. The company's leading candidates in clinical trials include possible treatments for lung cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and breast cancer. Its 2008 acquisition of Xanthus Pharmaceuticals brought along more candidates, and helped Antisoma expand in the US. Antisoma also partners with larger drug makers and research groups, including Novartis, to develop and commercialize products.

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.

BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals does biopharmaceutical drug development by the numbers. Using a multi-discipline process of identifying potential cancer drugs, the company has brought two candidates into late-stage development. Lead candidate Tavocept, which has FDA fast-track status, may prevent nerve and kidney damage caused by cancer therapies. BioNumerik's Karenitecin candidate is an advanced formulation of an existing cancer drug and is being evaluated for treatment of solid tumors. The firm relies heavily on computer models and simulations to identify promising drug candidates. In addition to its two lead candidates, it has several other potential drugs in pre-clinical research.

Bactolac Pharmaceutical (formerly Advanced Nutraceuticals) makes private-label vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other over-the-counter nutritional supplement products. The company's encapsulated and tablet-based products are available already packaged and branded, or sold in bulk to customers who repackage them for private-label sale. Customers include distributors, retailers, and multi-level marketing companies. Its services include product formulation, sample runs, and product testing. Chairman and CEO Pailla Reddy holds a majority of the company.

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