Allergan, Inc. was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Allergan, Inc., a multi-specialty healthcare company, discovers, develops, and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical, medical device, and over-the-counter products for the ophthalmic, neurological, medical aesthetics, medical dermatological, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, urological, and other specialty markets worldwide. It operates in two segments, Specialty Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices. The Specialty Pharmaceuticals segment offers a range of pharmaceutical products, including ophthalmic products for chronic dry eye, glaucoma therapy, ocular inflammation, infection, and allergy; Botox for the therapeutic and aesthetic indications; skin care products for acne, psoriasis, and other skin care products; eyelash growth products; and urologics products. The Medical Devices segment offers a range of medical devices, such as breast implants for augmentation, revision, and reconstructive surgery; obesity intervention products, including the Lap-Band System and the BIB BioEnterics Intragastric Balloon; and facial aesthetics products.Allergan company also offers Contigen for the treatment of urinary incontinence due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency. It sells its products to drug wholesalers, independent and chain drug stores, pharmacies, commercial optical chains, opticians, mass merchandisers, food stores, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, integrated direct hospital networks, and ambulatory surgery centers, as well as to medical practitioners, including ophthalmologists, neurologists, dermatologists, plastic and reconstructive surgeons, aesthetic specialty physicians, bariatric surgeons, pediatricians, urologists, and general practitioners. Allergan, Inc. has strategic research collaboration agreements with ExonHit Therapeutics S.A.; Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pieris AG.

Genetic Technologies Limited operates as a life science company, specializing in the fields of genetics and genomics primarily in Australia. The company provides genetic testing services to human beings for disease susceptibility, parentage, individual identity, forensics, and sports performance; animals, such as dogs, horses, birds, alpacas, exotics, and zoo animals for parentage, pedigree, traits, and disease susceptibility; and plants for traits and disease susceptibility. It also offers canine reproductive services, as well as involves in licensing its non-coding DNA patents. The company was formerly known as Duketon Goldfields N.L. and changed its name to Genetic Technologies Limited in August 2000. Genetic Technologies Limited was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Fitzroy, Australia.

MIGENIX likes to pick up compounds after they've been discovered, and shepherd them through to late-stage clinical development. After that point, the company is happy to license them out and hopefully reap the benefits. MIGENIX has partnered with Cadence Pharmaceuticals to shoulder the cost of putting its omiganan gel through Phase III clinical trials for use in preventing catheter-related infections. Cutanea Life Sciences holds the rights to develop omiganan as an acne treatment. Other clinical and pre-clinical drug candidates in the company's pipeline include potential treatments for Hepatitis B and C, blood infections, and neuro-degenerative diseases.

ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals is looking for treatments that are tailor-made for different patients. The company is researching targeted cancer therapies, finding genetic differences that affect how well patients respond to certain drugs and tailoring therapies accordingly. Its lead candidate is omacetaxine mepesuccinate (formerly called Ceflatonin); the drug is undergoing clinical testing as a treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia in patients who have a genetic mutation that makes them resistant to Novartis' Gleevec. Also in clinical development is Quinamed, a potential tumor fighter. The company has several other preclinical oncology programs as well.

GelStat Corporation engages in the development and marketing of over the counter and other nonprescription consumer health care products for pain and inflammation. It markets GelStat Migraine, a homeopathic drug, for the treatment of migraine and migraine-like headaches, as well as GelStat Arthritis, a sublingual dissolving tablet for the treatment of pain and associated symptoms of arthritis. The company is also developing other products that are in the final stages of development, which include GelStat Sinus for the remedy of nasal and/or sinus congestion, irritation, pressure, and sinus headache; and GelStat Sleep for promoting restful sleep. The company sells its products to regional and national retailers, wholesalers, specialty distributors, and catalog merchandisers in the United States directly and through sales brokers. GelStat Corporation is based in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (Abraxis) is an integrated biotechnology company. The Company is engaged in the discovery, development and delivery of next-generation therapeutics and core technologies that offer patients treatments for cancer and other critical illnesses. The Company’s portfolio includes protein-based nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (Abraxane), which is based on its tumor targeting technology known as the nab technology platform. Abraxis owns the worldwide rights to Abraxane, a next-generation, nanometer-sized, solvent-free taxane that was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2005 for its initial indication in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer and launched in February 2005. The Company’s product pipeline includes over five clinical oncology and cardiovascular product candidates in various stages of testing and development, including Abraxane and Coroxane for various indications.

Banner Pharmacaps, Inc., a drug delivery and specialty pharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, and manufacture of oral dosage forms for the pharmaceutical health care industry. It develops drug delivery systems and patented technologies, including Soflet Gelcaps, a technology that enrobes tablets with a gelatin or non-animal film; LiquiSoftT Chewable Liquid-Filled Softgels, which is a chewable gel dosage form suitable for pediatric populations; Chewel, a soft chewable gelatin dosage form for pediatric populations; EnteriCare, which are enteric softgels; Versatrol, which is a controlled release softgel technology; and EcoCaps, which are non-animal softgels. It serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology, and consumer healthcare markets. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in High Point, North Carolina. It has drug manufacturing facilities in High Point, North Carolina; Tilburg, the Netherlands; Olds, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico. It has locations in Mexico, Europe, the Asia/Pacific, the United States, and Canada. Banner Pharmacaps, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VION N.V.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cheshire, Connecticut. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and delivers drug therapies for patients with various medical conditions. It primarily engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biologic therapeutic products for the treatment of various disease states, including hematologic and neurologic diseases, transplant rejection, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. The company primarily markets Soliris (eculizumab) in the United States and Europe for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a blood disorder. It is also evaluating other indications for Soliris, as well as other formulations of eculizumab for additional clinical indications. In addition, the company is developing Anti-CD200 antibody for the treatment of B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a cancer that results from expansion of B-lymphocytes and other cancers.Alexion Pharmaceuticals drug programs include Eculizumab (intravenous), a phase II product candidate for atypical HUS, presensitized renal transplant, myasthenia gravis, multifocal motor neuropathy, dense deposit disease, catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, and cold agglutinin disease; CD200 Mab, which is in phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in preclinical stage for the treatment of multiple myeloma; and Eculizumab (new formulation) that is under phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of asthma. Its customers include specialty distributors and specialty pharmacies who supply physician office clinics, hospital outpatient clinics, infusion clinics, or home health care providers; government agencies; and hospitals, hospital buying groups, pharmacies, and other health care providers and distributors.

MannKind Corporation was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Valencia, California. MannKind Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic products for diseases, such as diabetes and cancer. Its lead product candidate, AFRESA, a rapid-acting insulin that has completed phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of diabetes in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The company's lead product candidates also include MKC1106-PP, which is in phase I clinical trial for the treatment of various solid-tumor cancers, including ovarian, colorectal, pancreatic, renal, breast, non-small cell lung and prostate carcinomas, glioblastoma, and melanoma.

Actelion Pharmaceuticals UK is the British arm of Swiss biotech firm Actelion. The drug manufacturer's product pipeline is based on its research of the endothelium, the single layer of cells between blood vessels and the blood that flows through them. Its first products are Tracleer for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and Zavesca which is used to treat Type 1 Gaucher disease.

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