Lifecore Biomedical hopes to help bodies plump up, smooth out, and keep moving. Lifecore's hyaluronan division makes products using hyaluronan, a natural lubricating compound found in animal and human connective tissues. The products are used in cataract surgeries, bone grafting, pain treatments for osteoarthritis, and veterinary orthopedics. Hyaluronan is also being tapped for use in cosmetic procedures as a dermal filler (to smooth out wrinkles). Lifecore has supply agreements with Alcon to use its hyaluronan solution in cataract surgery products. In 2008 the firm was taken private by Warburg Pincus.

Nutrition 21, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. Nutrition 21, Inc., a nutritional bioscience company, develops, markets, and distributes proprietary and clinically substantiated nutritional supplements in the United States. The company sells Chromax branded chromium picolinate to vitamin and supplement and food manufacturers and marketers, as well as directly to retailers for use in human and animal nutrition products. It also develops and commercializes Diabetes Essentials, a proprietary, non-prescription, insulin sensitizer for people with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the company offers a portfolio of health and wellness products under the Iceland Health Maximum Strength Omega-3, Iceland Health Joint Relief, Iceland Health Advanced Memory Formula, Chromax chromium picolinate, Prescriptix Supplements, and Diabetes Essentials names. In addition, Nutrition 21, Inc. grants patent licenses to its ingredients to manufacturers and marketers of vitamin and mineral supplements.

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.

Formerly known as Stone Electronic Technology Limited, Stone Group Holdings Limited (Stock code: 409) was established on September 3, 1987. After a successful restructuring exercise in 1993, the Company became the first non-state-owned share-holding company in the PRC listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in August 1993. It is principally engaged in IT electronic & media – related business in mainland China, healthcare products business and investment business.The Company's IT electronic and media-related business includes the manufacture and distribution of traditional electronic products and the operation of internet café chain. Electronic products include dot matrix printer and value-added tax control machine with patented intellectual property, and the Group also acts as the agent and distributor of industrial controllers, uninterrupted power system equipment, digital graphics, semiconductors, computers etc.. Product coverage includes SIEMENS, FUJI. The internet café chain – Sunnet café is located in Guangdong Province.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is a multi-national specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of pharmaceutical products. The Company focuses on the therapeutic areas of dermatology and neurology. Its products are sold through three segments: Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Branded Generics (Europe) and Branded Generics (Latin America). In January 2008, the Company sold its product rights to Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC. In June 2008, the Company sold its subsidiaries in Argentina and Uruguay. In September 2008, the Company sold its business operations located in Western and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (the WEEMEA business) to Meda AB of Sweden. In October 2008, the Company completed a worldwide License and Collaboration Agreement with Glaxo Group Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc. In May 2009, the Company acquired EMO-FARM Ltd., a privately held company located in Poland.

Laboratorios Almirall can help patients with a lot of ailments. The pharmaceutical company develops, manufactures, and markets drugs for a wide range of conditions affecting the digestive, central nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems. Products include ebastine (antihistamine), aceclofenac (anti-inflammatory), and almotriptan (anti-migraine drug). The company, which is the leading drugmaker in Spain, operates from offices in Europe and Mexico and markets its drugs in more than 70 countries. Laboratorios Almirall is currently focusing its research efforts on treating asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and dermatological problems, among others.

Cerep offers tools and knowledge to help those companies discover and develop new drugs without having to start from scratch. It also developed a library of compounds that includes promising substances and drug candidates developed with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis. Customers use Cerep's expertise in compound profiling, computational chemistry, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, and pharmacoinformatics to cut to the chase and develop successful drug candidates.

Orexigen Therapeutics was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focusing on the development of pharmaceutical product candidates for the treatment of obesity. Orexigen Therapeutics's lead combination product candidates targeted for obesity are Contrave, which is in Phase III clinical trials, and Empatic, which is in the later stages of Phase II clinical development. It selected these two product candidates for obesity based research regarding CNS regulation of appetite and energy expenditure, as well as mechanisms in the brain that reinforce unhealthy eating behaviors. Each of these product candidates is a combination of generic drugs that is screened for synergistic CNS activity.

PML Microbiologicals, Inc. company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. It has manufacturing facilities in Mississauga, Canada; and Portland, Oregon. As of December 8, 2008, PML Microbiologicals, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BioMérieux S.A. PML Microbiologicals, Inc. manufactures culture media and microbiological products for clinical and industrial applications in North America. It offers prepared culture media, stains, reagents, quality control organisms, sterility products, and collection and transport systems, as well as accessories for microbiology laboratories. The company also provides custom products, such as minimum inhibitory concentration panels, parasitology kits, diluents, and rinsing fluids. It serves clinical, pharmaceutical, research, environmental, personal care, and food and beverage industries. PML Microbiologicals, Inc. was formerly known as Prepared Media Laboratory.

Theratechnologies is pepped up on peptides. The Canadian company develops peptide sequences to treat endocrine and metabolic conditions such as growth hormone deficiencies. Lead drug candidate tesamorelin is a growth hormone-releasing peptide that Theratechnologies believes can combat a variety of problems, including HIV-related lipodystrophy (the metabolic syndrome characterized by changes in distribution of adipose tissue), muscle wasting associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep maintenance insomnia, and immune dysfunction in elderly patients.

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