QUATRx Pharmaceuticals hopes to capitalize on the bright ideas of others. The biopharmaceutical company acquires compounds in the pre-clinical stage from other companies and academic institutions and takes them through clinical studies then licensing them to pharma giants. The company focuses on developing new therapies for cardiovascular, endocrine, and metabolic conditions. Products in clinical trials include treatments for age-related hormone deficiencies in women and men as well as drugs for high cholesterol and the treatment of psoriasis. Hormos Medical, QUATRx's Finnish subsidiary, conducts most of its preclinical and discovery programs.

Galapagos has formed its own archipelago of drugs to treat bone and joint ailments and other diseases. The company uses its proprietary genomic drug-discovery technology to develop medicines to treat rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis. Galapagos' pharma services subsidiaryBioFocus DPI offers collaborative drug-discovery services to other pharmaceutical companies. Its drug discovery division works with partners to find, test, and market new drugs. The company's pharmaceutical collaborators include top drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, and Janssen Pharmaceutica, part of Johnson & Johnson. Galapagos has about 40 projects in its R&D pipeline, most of them through these partnerships.

Ranbaxy UK Ltd. company began its operations in Britain in 1994. Ranbaxy UK hopes to run the British generic pharmaceuticals market. Ranbaxy company, a subsidiary of Indian drug firm Ranbaxy Laboratories, offers a wide variety of generic drugs in the UK for central nervous system disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and anti-infectives. Some of the company's products include Easyhaler (an inhaler for respiratory problems), Visclair (for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and Distaclor-MR (for respiratory tract infections). Ranbaxy UK represents a major foothold for the group's operations in Europe.

New Energy Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Burtonsville, Maryland. New Energy Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the identification, acquisition, development, and commercialization of alternative energy technologies. It focuses on the development of MotionPower, a technology for capturing the kinetic energy of moving vehicles in order to use this captured energy to generate electricity; and SolarWindow, a technology that enables transparent glass windows to generate electricity by coating their glass surfaces with small solar cells. The company was formerly known as Octillion Corp. and changed its name to New Energy Technologies, Inc. in January 2009.

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals s.a. company was founded in 1945 and is based in Rixensart, Belgium. Glaxosmithkline Biologicals S.A. operates as a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc. Glaxosmithkline Biologicals S.A. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and supply of vaccines. Its vaccination products are used to tackle various diseases, such as rabies, diphtheria, tetanus, and yellow fever, as well as polio, measles, mumps, and rubella and hepatitis B. Glaxosmithkline Biologicals S.A. was formerly known as SmithKline Beecham Biologicals S.A. and changed its name to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals S.A. in 2000.

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.

Mymetics Corporation is a biotechnology research and development company focused on fundamental and applied research in the area of human biology and medicine. Mymetics's primary objective is to develop vaccines and therapies to prevent and treat the effects of certain retroviruses and other infectious diseases, including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Mymetics has also acquired from a scientific partner an advanced malaria vaccine project, which is in phase II clinical trial. Additional applications of Mymetics's research include potential treatments and/or vaccines for malaria, human oncoviral leukemias, multiple sclerosis and organ transplantation. In April 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Bestewil Holding B.V. and its subsidiary, Virosome Biologicals B.V., from Norwood Immunology Limited.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases worldwide. Its product pipeline includes Telaprevir, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; VX-813, a Phase Ia clinical trial product for chronic HCV infection; VX-985, which is under preclinical trails for chronic HCV infection; VX-770, a Phase IIa clinical trial candidate for the treatment of Cystic fibrosis; VX-809, a Phase Ib clinical trial product for the treatment of Cystic fibrosis; VX-509, a Phase Ia clinical trial product for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases; MK-5108 (VX-689), a Phase I clinical trial product for the treatment of cancer; and AVN-944(VX-944), which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer. The company also has development and commercial rights to VX-702 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. It has collaboration agreements with Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Incorporated; Merck & Co., Inc.; Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline plc.; and Bend Research Inc.

Radiant Research is aglow with success. The contract research organization (CRO) conducts late phase human clinical trials for drugmakers and medical device makers at a network of some 25 research facilities that it owns across the US. Its services run the gamut from early Phase IIb trials all the way to post-approval Phase IV testing for new therapies in areas including cardiology, infectious diseases, asthma and allergies, and women's health. Radiant recruits the participants for the trials as well as gathers data for the companies; it also provides study design, consulting, and analysis services. Clients include major pharmaceutical companies, as well as biotech and medical device companies.

Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. company was founded in 2001 and is based in New York, New York. Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of pharmaceutical therapies in the United States. Its product candidates under development include Hedrin, a novel, non-insecticide treatment for pediculosis; and Topical PTH (1-34) for the treatment of psoriasis. Manhattan Pharmaceuticals has a joint venture agreement with Nordic Biotech Advisors ApS to develop and commercialize Hedrin.

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