Lab901 is not that college class you flunked. It's a company that develops and manufactures laboratory processing products to increase the efficiency of analytical laboratory testing used for DNA tests and other applications. Lab901's ScreenTape system is disposable a credit-card sized strip patterned with reagents used to process and analyze biological samples such as blood, DNA, and RNA. Lab901 was formed in 2001.

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.

Medifacts was founded in 1985 as Core Laboratory Services and has facilities in the US, Germany, and China. Medifacts International, Inc. company specializes in cardiovascular safety data management services, including ECG (electrocardiogram) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring services, for clients conducting pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device development trials. It also provides data collection, consulting, training, and telemedicine services. The company has sold its Clinical Research Services division, which offered broader data management services for clinical trials.

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.

Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., also known as Roche, is a research-oriented pharmaceutical company. It provides medications in the areas of infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, neurology, oncology, transplantation and virology, AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, central nervous system disorders, and dermatology. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. was formerly known as Roche Chemical Works and changed its name to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in January 1929. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Nutley, New Jersey. It has research centers in Basel, Switzerland; Nutley, New Jersey; Penzberg, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Palo Alto, California. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG.

Incyte hopes its success with inhibitors is uninhibited. The biotechnology company is focused on discovering and developing drugs that inhibit specific enzymes associated with cancer, diabetes, HIV, and inflammatory diseases. The company's lede program is its JAK kinase inhibitor program, which covers treatments for inflammatory diseases and cancers, including rheumatoid arthritis, myelofibrosis, psoriasis, multiple myeloma, and prostate cancer. Incyte has several other products in clinical trial stages, including a CCR5 antagonist designed to prevent the entry of HIV into target cells.

AVEO Pharmaceuticals' models don't pout, strut, or even turn heads -- unless you're a cancer drug researcher. The biotech firm develops cancer models to uncover how genes mutate into tumors and how tumors progress through additional mutations. AVEO then builds genetic profiles of such tumors and applies them to antibody (protein) drug candidates in preclinical and clinical development to help predict actual human responses. In addition to its own pipeline of potential drugs, AVEO has partnered with other pharmaceutical developers to apply its Human Response Platform to their drug candidates.

Cerep offers tools and knowledge to help those companies discover and develop new drugs without having to start from scratch. It also developed a library of compounds that includes promising substances and drug candidates developed with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis. Customers use Cerep's expertise in compound profiling, computational chemistry, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, and pharmacoinformatics to cut to the chase and develop successful drug candidates.

Tridelta specialises in the development, manufacturing and marketing of diagnostic products for the animal health care industry. The company has commercialised five technologies to date with its "PHASE" range of Acute Phase Protein Assays, which are indicators of the presence of an inflammatory reaction, detected in the blood before the animal shows any physical signs of ill health. Species of specific interest include: cattle, horses, sheep, cats, dogs, pigs and rodents.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Birmingham, Alabama. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. designs, optimizes, and develops small-molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes involved in infectious diseases, cancer, and inflammatory diseases. It uses structure-based drug design, which incorporates multiple scientific disciplines, including biology, crystallography, medicinal chemistry, and computer modeling to develop new therapeutic candidates. The company has progressed two compounds into late-stage pivotal clinical trials comprising Peramivir, an anti-viral for influenza; and Forodesine, a purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor forcutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Peramivir is being developed under a contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).Forodesine has been granted Orphan Drug status by the FDA for three indications, including T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, including CTCL; CLL and related leukemias, such as T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia, adult T-cell leukemia, and hairy cell leukemia; and for the treatment of B-ALL. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is also testing BCX4208, a second generation PNP inhibitor, which is in a Phase II study for the treatment of gout. The company utilizes crystallography and structure-based drug design to discover additional compounds and to progress others through pre-clinical and early development to address the unmet medical needs of patients and physicians. It has strategic alliances with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Shionogi & Co., Ltd.; Green Cross Corporation; and Mundipharma International Holdings Limited.

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