Geron Corporation was founded in 1990 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Geron Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, including spinal cord injury, heart failure, and diabetes. The company develops a range of anti-cancer therapies, including anti-cancer therapies based on telomerase inhibitors and telomerase therapeutic vaccines, as well as focuses on the development of products using telomerase as a marker for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, patient monitoring, and screening. Its products include GRN163 and GRN163L, which are telomerase inhibitors for the treatment of chronic lymphoproliferative diseases, solid tumors, non-small cell-lung cancer, breast cancer, and multiple myeloma, which are in Phase I trials; and GRNVAC1, a telomerase cancer vaccine that is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia. Geron Corporation also develops human embryonic stem cell-based therapeutics, with its spinal cord injury treatment. The company has research, development, and commercialization license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. to use telomerase in non-dendritic cell cancer vaccines; and a license agreement with Sienna Cancer Diagnostics to detect telomerase for in vitro cancer diagnosis.

Purely Proteins doesn't mix your ordinary protein shake. Through its proprietary technology, the company purifies human proteins to accelerate biotherapeutic drug discovery and drug screening. Purely Proteins also operates a subscription-based online database of gene and protein information called TargetBASE, which gives chemists and biologists a summary of known and potential protein targets that may help in the discovery of therapies for diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. The company conducts its research in conjunction with several business partners, including Abcam Ltd, Asahi Kasei, Cytomyx Limited, and Inhibox Ltd. CEO David Parry-Smith co-founded Purely Proteins in 2002.

Protide Pharmaceuticals is pro-cell. The firm focuses on developing new technologies for cellular and transfusion therapies, including gene therapies, to treat cancer and genetic disorders and to improve cell transplantation and engineering. To fund its work, Protide sells nearly 20 products under the Celox Laboratories brand to its academic, drug, and diagnostic research clients around the world. These products include serum-free growth mediums and supplements, as well as solutions used to cryopreserve cells and tissues. ICN Pharmaceuticals has a non-exclusive global marketing agreement for certain products. Protide also has a private-label manufacturing deal with a division of Sigma-Aldrich.

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.

Herbalife Ltd. (Herbalife) is a global network marketing company that sells weight management, nutritional supplement, energy, sports and fitness products, and personal care products. Herbalife sells its products in 70 countries through a network of over 1.9 million independent distributors. The Company offers science-based products in four principal categories: weight management, targeted nutrition, energy, sports and fitness, and Outer Nutrition. In October 2008, Herbalife announced that it has begun doing business in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. These countries become part of the Company's Mexico and Central America region. Five products from Herbalife's nutrition line will be available in each market, including the Company's flagship Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix, in four flavors; Performance Protein Powder; Herbal Aloe Drink Concentrate; NRG Tea, and Thermojetics Tea.

Qiagen N.V. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Venlo, the Netherlands. Qiagen N.V. provides technologies and products for preanalytical sample preparation and linked molecular assay solutions worldwide. Its sample technologies are used to collect, stabilize, isolate, and purify deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA), and proteins from blood, bone, and tissue samples; and assay technologies are used to make specific target biomolecules, such as the DNA of a specific virus for subsequent detection and analysis. The company offers sample and assay consumable products that are used in plasmid, DNA purification; RNA purification and stabilization; genomic and viral nucleic acid purification; nucleic acid transfection; polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification; reverse transcription; DNA cleanup after PCR and sequencing; and DNA cloning and protein purification. It also provides PCR assays, which allow PCR-based detection of viral, bacterial and parasite, human, and animal pathogens, as well as pharmacogenomic genotyping; and various other products for research in the areas of epigenetics, gene expression, micro RNA, proteomics, RNAi, and applied testing and molecular diagnostics. In addition, the company offers automated systems that provide walk-away automation of sample and assay technologies in low, medium, or high throughput scale, as well as reaction set-up and other laboratory tasks; QIAcube, which allows users in research in life sciences, applied testing, and molecular diagnostic to automate the processing of the company's consumable products; and instruments to OEM partners. Further, it provides custom services, such as whole genome amplification services, DNA sequencing, and non-cGMP DNA production on a contract basis; and sells and/or licenses technology. The company serves researchers at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, and government and private laboratories.

Avacta will take a closer look and get back with you. The biophysics company makes its money from the exact science of detecting molecules. Its Avacta Analysis arm provides analytical and research services to the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and personal care industries. It also offers expert witness services to assist in pharmaceutical patent disputes and suspected counterfeiting cases. The company's technology arm has developed a product to help drug developers analyze and predict the potential usefulness of biological drug compounds. The company also owns veterinary laboratory services provider YorkTest Veterinary Services, and diagnostic test maker Curidium Medica.

Quidel Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in San Diego, California. Quidel Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of rapid diagnostic solutions for decentralized applications, including professional point-of-care (POC) in infectious diseases, reproductive and women’s health. The Company focuses on POC testing solutions specifically developed for the physician office lab (POL) and acute care markets globally. It sells its products to professionals for use in physician offices, hospitals, clinical laboratories and wellness screening centers. Its POC testing solutions are designed to provide specialized results that meet two value criteria that the Company has branded as Quidel Value Build (QVB). The Company provides rapid POC and other diagnostic tests under brand names, including QuickVue, QuickVue+, QuickVue Advance, Metra, Quidel and MicroVue. The Company markets its products in the United States through a network of national and regional distributors, supported by a direct sales force.

Compugen Ltd. company was founded in 1993 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Compugen Ltd. (Compugen) is engaged in drug and diagnostic product candidate discovery and the commercialization of such candidates through early-stage licensing and co-development agreements. The Company’s business is focused on developing and using predictive computer-based discovery platforms to discover therapeutic drug candidates and diagnostic biomarker candidates. The Company uses experimental biological processes to validate product candidates discovered by its predictive platforms. Its initial discovery platforms focused mainly on cancer, cardiovascular and immune-related diseases. In July 2008, Compugen announced results from an in vivo study of CGEN-25007, a peptide antagonist of the gp96 protein. The data indicate that CGEN-25007 has immunosuppressive effects and therapeutic potential for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases and other immune related pathologies.

MediciNova, Inc. company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the acquisition and development of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs principally in the United States. The company's development pipeline includes programs that are in clinical development for the treatment of asthma, acute exacerbations of asthma, multiple sclerosis, interstitial cystitis, solid tumor cancers, generalized anxiety disorder/insomnia, preterm labor, and urinary incontinence. Its principal product development programs consist of MN-221, which is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of acute exacerbations of asthma; and MN-166 that has completed Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The company's other product development programs include MN-001, which completed Phase II/III clinical trial for the treatment of interstitial cystitis and an oral dosing formulation prototype for the treatment of bronchial asthma; MN-029 that completed second Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of solid tumors; MN-305, which completed a Phase II/III clinical trial for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder and a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of insomnia; MN-221 that completed a Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of preterm labor; and MN-246, a Phase I clinical trial completed product for the treatment of urinary incontinence. Its preclinical development products comprise MN-447 and MN-462 for the treatment of thrombotic disorders.

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