Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. company develops drugs using its transdermal drug delivery system, which administers medication through a patch attached to the skin. Noven's patches include such female hormone replacement therapy products as Vivelle-Dot and CombiPatch, ADHD drug Daytrana (marketed by Shire), and a transmucosal lidocaine patch used for dental procedures. The company also produces and markets three psychiatric drugs. In 2009 Noven was acquired by Japanese drug-maker Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical for some $430 million.

NeuTec wants to make visiting the hospital an experience that lessens patient dangers. The biopharmaceutical company identifies and compares antibodies produced by patients who recover from infections (acquired in hospitals) to those produced by patients who die. Then, using its FabTec technology, it develops genetically recombinant antibodies, or "grabs," to treat patients with life-threatening infections. The company's two leading candidates, Mycograb, which targets a fungus in the mouth and skin, and Aurograb, which targets bacterial infections, are in clinical trials in the UK. Mycograb also is in clinical trials in the US.

AlphaVax, Inc. company was founded in 1998 by Robert Johnston, Nancy Davis, and Jonathan Smith, AlphaVax's chief scientific officer. AlphaVax, Inc. company is developing new vaccines for cancers and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola, influenza, and other viral maladies. AlphaVax relies on a proprietary alphavaccine system that genetically alters diseased cells and transforms them into a vaccine when they attempt to replicate. Its technology could be used to develop preventative vaccines and therapeutic vaccines. Its pipeline consists of early-stage candidates. AlphaVax receives funding through partnerships and grants.

MorphoSys is a biotechnology firm with a human touch. Using its proprietary HuCAL catalog of fully human antibodies, the company is helping the world's largest drug firms develop human antibody therapies for a wide range of diseases. It helps its pharmaceutical clients in a number of ways: one, by installing its HuCAL library and related technology at customer sites in return for licensing fees; and second, by working in partnership with drug firms to develop potential antibody therapies. Its client list is a Who's Who of Big Pharma and includes Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, and Merck. MorphoSys also makes human antibodies (under the brand name AbD-Serotec) and sells them to researchers.

Abbott Laboratories company was founded in 1888 and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois. Abbott Laboratories manufactures and sells health care products worldwide. Abbott company's Pharmaceutical Products segment offers adult and pediatric pharmaceuticals for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, dyslipidemia, HIV infection, hypothyroidism, advanced prostate cancer, endometriosis and central precocious puberty, anemia caused by uterine fibroids, obesity, epilepsy and bipolar disorder, migraines, and secondary hyperparathyroidism; and provides anesthesia products and anti-infectives. Its Diagnostic Products segment offers immunoassay systems; chemistry systems; assays used for screening and/or diagnosis for drugs of abuse, cancer, therapeutic drug monitoring, fertility, physiological diseases, and infectious diseases; instruments that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, and detect and measure infections agents; genomic-based tests; hematology systems and reagents; and point-of-care diagnostic systems and tests for blood analysis.Abbott Company's Nutritional Products segment provides various forms of prepared infant formula and follow-on formula, adult and other pediatric nutritional products, nutritional products used in enteral feeding in health care institutions, and bars and nutritional brands. Its Vascular Products segment offers coronary, endovascular, and vessel closure devices, such as drug-eluting coronary stent systems, coronary metallic stents, balloon dilatation products, coronary guidewires, vessel closure devices, and carotid stent systems to treat vascular disease. Abbott serves wholesalers, government agencies, health care facilities, specialty pharmacies, independent retailers, hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, blood banks, commercial laboratories, alternate-care testing sites, plasma protein therapeutic companies, and third-party distributors.

CSL Limited is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, marketing and distribution of biopharmaceutical and allied products. It operates in three segments: CSL Behring, which is engaged in manufacturing, marketing and developing plasma products; Intellectual Property Licensing, which is engaged in licensing to unrelated third parties of intellectual property generated by the Company, and Other Human Health, which comprises CSL Bioplasma and CSL Biotherapies. These businesses manufacture and distribute biotherapeutic products. It operates in Australia, United States, Switzerland and Germany.

Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc. company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Inc., a development stage pharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of products for the treatment of diseases and disorders, in which the body is unable to mount immune or metabolic response due to disease or the process of aging. The company focuses on developing a series of adrenal steroid hormones and hormone analogs that are derived from its Hormonal Signaling Technology Platform. It develops two clinical drug development candidates, TRIOLEX (HE3286), which is in initial clinical trials for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis; and APOPTONE (HE3235) that is in a clinical trial for late-stage prostate cancer. The company is also exploring APOPTONE for other cancers, such as breast cancer. In addition, Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals has a research program that is generating clinical leads for evaluation in preclinical models of various diseases, including metabolic and autoimmune conditions, as well as inflammatory diseases of the lung, bone metabolism, and regenerative medicine.

Essential Nutrition Ltd. was founded in 1989. Essential Nutrition offers research, testing, and manufacturing services to drug companies. The UK-based firm estimates its manufacturing capacity to be up to 8.5 million tablets per day. The company also produces its own brand of health food supplements which it markets online. It partners with various agronomy firms to determine optimum location and growth cycles for its herbal medicine crops, and it has developed nutritional research with universities throughout the UK and US. Essential Nutrition is family owned and operated.

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. company was founded in 1997 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. operates as a specialty pharmaceutical company in the United States. Its patented drug delivery technologies include BEMA drug delivery technology and Bioral cochleate drug delivery technology. The company, using its drug delivery technologies, develops formulations of pharmaceuticals aimed principally at short term acute conditions occurring in patients, primarily in the areas of pain and fungal infections. Its lead product is ONSOLIS, a treatment for pain in opioid tolerant patients with cancer. BioDelivery Sciences licensed the commercialization and distribution rights for ONSOLIS to Meda AB.BioDelivery Sciences Company's products/formulations also include BEMA Buprenorphine, which is under preparation for phase 2 for moderate to severe and acute pain. Its lead Bioral formulation is an encochleated version of Amphotericin B, an anti-fungal treatment for systemic fungal infections. The company also has a Bioral formulation, which is in initial in vitro studies for the intranasal administration of Amphotericin B to treat chronic rhinosinusitis. BioDelivery Sciences has a research collaboration and licensing agreement with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to develop Bioral Amphotericin B for the treatment of neglected diseases, such as leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.

SIGA Technologies was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York. SIGA Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of anti-infectives and antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of serious infectious diseases. SIGA company focus on products for use in defense against biological warfare agents, such as smallpox, arenaviruses (hemorrhagic fevers), and other category A viral agents. Its lead product, ST-246, is an orally administered anti-viral drug that targets orthopox viruses. SIGA's product candidates also include ST-294 and ST-193, which demonstrates antiviral activity in cell culture assays against arenavirus pathogens; and ST-669, a broad spectrum antiviral candidate, for various viruses in the Poxviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Arenaviridae, Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Retroviridae, and Picornaviridae families. In addition, it also has four drug series in the pre-clinical development stage, including ST-610 and ST-148 for dengue virus of the genus Flavivirus. SIGA company has license agreements, collaborative research arrangements, and contracts with National Institutes of Health and the United States Air Force.

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