The US subsidiary of pharmaceuticals and materials giant Bayer AG (or Bayer Group), Bayer Corporation operates through three divisions and an internal services company. Bayer Corporation handles Bayer Group's US operations in three segments: Bayer HealthCare (pharmaceuticals, animal health, and over-the-counter medicines), MaterialScience (plastics, coatings, and polyurethanes), and Bayer CropScience (herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides). The internal services unit, Bayer Corporate and Business Services, handles administrative, technology, human resources, legal, and procurement functions for the Bayer Group's US operations.

Janssen has gone totally mental. A US-based arm of Johnson & Johnson'sglobal pharmaceuticals segment, Janssen focuses exclusively on treatments for mental health conditions. Its flagship offering Risperdal combats bipolar mania and schizophrenia, as well as irritability associated with autism. A long-acting injectable version of the drug, called Risperdal Consta, is approved as a treatment for schizophrenia. With its sister company Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, the company is working on potential drugs for a range of psychiatric problems, including psychosis, sleep disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression, and substance abuse.

BioReliance Corporation company was founded in 1947. Private equity firm Avista Capital Partners controls the company. BioReliance helps biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies suffering from test anxiety. The outsourcing company helps drug developers with contract testing and manufacturing services. With facilities in the UK and the US, BioReliance offers biologics safety testing, manufacturing services, preclinical testing services (such as animal lab diagnostics and toxicology), and clinical trial support. Its manufacturing plants make vaccines, gene therapies, and other kinds of biologics for use in clinical trials.

Elite Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Elite) is a specialty pharmaceutical company principally engaged in the development and manufacture of oral, controlled-release products. The Company’s activity includes improving off-patent drug products for life cycle management and developing generic versions of controlled-release drug products. Its technology is applicable to develop delayed, sustained or targeted-release pellets, capsules, tablets, granules and powders. As of March 31, 2009, the Company had two products, Lodrane 24 and Lodrane 24D, being sold commercially, and a pipeline of five additional drug candidates under active development in the therapeutic areas that include pain management, allergy and infection. Of the products under development, ELI-216, a once-a-day, abuse-deterrent oxycodone product, and ELI-154, a once-a-day oxycodone product, are in clinical trials, and Elite has completed pilot studies on two of its other generic product candidates.

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) is Osaka's answer to disease. The Japanese drugmaker produces drugs in a wide range of therapeutic categories including cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and infections. Its products include blood pressure medication Amlodin, digestive tract treatment Gasmotin, and antibiotic Meropen. Subsidiary Sepracordevelops and markets central nervous system and respiratory drugs in North America; its top selling product is insomnia therapy Lunesta. In addition to pharmaceuticals, DSP makes food and feed additives, veterinary drugs, fine chemicals, and diagnostic reagents used in research and clinical laboratories. Sumitomo Chemical owns just over half of DSP.

Forbes Medi-Tech has an answer for folks wanting to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet. The firm makes Reducol, a dietary supplement ingredient that reduces LDL, the "bad" cholesterol associated with increased risk of heart disease. It sells the ingredient to food and nutritionals companies that incorporate it into their products. Pharmavite uses Reducol in its Cholest-Off supplement, and foodmakers in Europe use it in items such as yogurt, milk, and bread. Until 2008 Forbes Medi-Tech also had a drug development operation, which was testing pharmaceutical candidates to treat high cholesterol and metabolic conditions; however, it has divested those operations to focus on its Reducol business.

Aceto Corporation company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Lake Success, New York. Aceto Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in sourcing, quality assurance, regulatory support, marketing, and distributing chemically derived pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and crop protection products. It operates in three segments: Health Sciences, Chemicals and Colorants, and Crop Protection. The Health Sciences segment offers active ingredients for generic pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and nutritional supplements, as well as products used in preparing pharmaceuticals primarily by drug companies and biopharmaceuticals. The Chemicals and Colorants segment offers specialty chemicals used in plastics, resins, adhesives, coatings, food, flavor additives, fragrances, cosmetics, metal finishing, electronics, and air-conditioning systems. This segment's products include dye and pigment intermediates, which are used in the color-producing industries, such as textiles, inks, paper, and coatings; and organic intermediates used in the production of agrochemicals. The Crop Protection segment provides herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides that control weed growth, as well as control the spread of insects and other micro organisms that damage plant growth. This segment also offers a sprout inhibitor for potatoes and an herbicide for sugar cane. Aceto Corporation serves a range of companies in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, color, surface coating/ink, general chemical consuming, and health science industries in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific.

Proteome Sciences plc is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company is principally engaged in biomarker research and development primarily in the field of applied proteomics, using techniques to detect and characterize differentially expressed proteins in diseases for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applications. Through its ProteoSHOP toolkit, Proteome Sciences provides proteomics solutions, including traditional two dimensional gel-based electrophoresis (2DE) and gel-free protein sequence tag technologies (PST, qPST& TMT), to pharma, biotechnology and diagnostic companies. The Company has research facilities in London, the United Kingdom and Frankfurt, Germany. Its subsidiaries include Proteome Sciences R&D Verwaltungs GmbH, Proteome Sciences R&D GmbH & Co. KG, Xzillion GmbH & Co. KG, Proteome Sciences, Inc., Veri-Q Inc., Phenomics Limited and Electrophoretics Limited.

Naturewell, Incorporated does not have significant operations. Naturewell company intends to seek business opportunities, including an acquisition or merger with an operating business. Previously, it engaged in the research and development of proprietary healthcare products for various conditions, which comprise primary migraine medication, MIGRASPRAY. Naturewell company is based in San Diego, California.

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including renal disease and cancer. Its products under development include Zerenex, an oral iron-based compound is in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with end-stage renal disease in the United States and Japan; and KRX-0401, an oral anti-cancer agent in Phase II clinical development that modulates Akt, and various other key signal transduction pathways, including the JNK and MAPK pathways, which are pathways associated with programmed cell death, cell growth, cell differentiation, and cell survival. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals has strategic alliances with AEterna Zentaris Inc.; Panion & BF Biotech, Inc.; Japan Tobacco Inc.; and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and commercialization of its products.

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