Garden of Life, Inc. Company manufactures and supplies nutritional supplements, specialty food items, and personal care products. Its supplements include weight management, digestive health, and immune-system support products. The company's Original Medicine division produces nutritional products for distribution by health practitioners; its other lines are sold through natural foods retailers. Many of Garden of Life's products are based on a program called The Maker's Diet which was created by company founder and chairman Jordan Rubin in 2000 after overcoming Crohn's disease. Garden of Life has agreed to be acquired by Atrium Innovations.

Cangene Corporation company makes plasma products known as hyperimmunes, which are antibody preparations and recombinant biopharmaceuticals made by introducing a gene in a host organism. Cangene's drugs are used to treat plasma-derived disorders, including the blood clotting disorder thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic disease of the newborn, which occurs when a fetus' blood type is incompatible with its mother's. Cangene has several approved products and is developing others, mainly in the areas of infectious disease and biodefense. Generic giant Apotex owns more than 80% of Cangene.

VaxGen, Inc. company was founded in 1995 and is based in South San Francisco, California. VaxGen, Inc., (VaxGen) is a biopharmaceutical company. VaxGen is focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of biologic products for the treatment of human disease. The Company owns a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with a 1,000-liter bioreactor that can be used to make cell culture or microbial biologic products. The Company has ended all product development activities and sold or otherwise terminated its drug development programs. On March 28, 2008, the Company entered into a Termination of Merger Agreement, Acknowledgment and Amendment to Loan Agreement and Secured Promissory Note, or Termination Agreement and Amendment, terminating immediately the Merger Agreement and amending the terms of VaxGen’s bridge loan to Raven.

Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and distributes branded and private label vitamins, nutritional supplements and nutrition bars in the United States and throughout the world. The Company offers a range of capsules, tablets and nutrition bars. Its portfolio of brands includes Schiff, Move Free, MegaRed and Tiger’s Milk, which is marketed through the mass market, including club and health food store distribution channels. The Company markets a range of specialty supplements, vitamins and minerals under the Schiff brand. The Schiff brand specialty supplements are designed to provide consumers with targeted support for their wellness efforts. Its specialty supplements include joint care products marketed under the Schiff brand, including its Move Free and Glucosamine products. Its Move Free product is one of the joint care products in the mass market channel.

Astellas Pharma US, Inc. company's primary products include organ transplant immunosuppressant Prograf, overactive bladder treatment VESIcare, and vascular dilator Andenoscan. It is focusing its efforts on the following therapeutic areas: cardiology, dermatology, immunology, infectious diseases, and urology. The company's other products include antifungals Mycamine and AmBisome, enlarged prostate treatment Flomax, and dermatological product Protopic. Astellas Pharma US is a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, which was formed in 2005 with the merger of Japan-based pharmaceutical companies Yamanouchi and Fujisawa.

Morphotek has mighty morphin' power, but don't expect to find its products on the shelves of the local toy store. The biotechnology company develops monoclonal antibody (single-source protein) therapies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, and infectious diseases using its proprietary Morphogenics technology platform. It conducts research and clinical development programs on its own drug candidates for ailments such as ovarian and pancreatic cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma. Morphotek also enters collaborative research partnerships and licenses out its technology to other drug companies such as Amgen and Novo Nordisk. The company is a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., part of Japanese drug firm Eisai.

Alizyme is fighting the good fight against ills brought on by the good life. The development-stage biotechnology company licenses drug candidates and develops them. It targets conditions prevalent primarily in industrialized countries, including obesity, type 2 diabetes (often associated with obesity), and ulcerative colitis. Alizyme is focused on developing a family of lipase inhibitors, which prevent the body from absorbing fat. In addition to its pipeline of treatments for lifestyle-related conditions, the company is developing a drug for mucositis, cancer therapy-induced damage to the gastrointestinal tract.

Micromet, Inc. (Micromet) is a biopharmaceutical company developing antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases. Its product development pipeline includes antibodies generated with its BiTE antibody platform, as well as conventional monoclonal antibodies. Four of the Company's antibodies are in clinical trials, while the remainder of its product pipeline is in pre-clinical development. The Company’s BiTE antibody blinatumomab, known as MT103, is being evaluated in a phase II clinical trial for the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and in a phase I clinical trial for the treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). A second BiTE antibody, MT110, is being tested in a phase I clinical trial for the treatment of patients with solid tumors. MT110 binds to the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), which is over-expressed in many solid tumors.

Genome Explorations Inc. was founded by Dr. Divyen H. Patel to provide academic and industrial institutes with a 'Complete Solution' for Genotyping, Gene expression and miRNA profiling. Dr. Patel initiated and ran the Affymetrix GeneChip processing core at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding's from one of the many studies conducted through his core was described in a seminal study on the cover of Cancer Cell (Cancer Cell Vol. 1 133-143 March 2002). The study showed for the first time that microarray technology could be used to enhance diagnosis of pediatric leukemia and could also be used to evaluate prognostic outcome. The extensive experience gained through working with scores of investigators on many varying projects has made Genome Explorations Inc. the number one choice for Investigators worldwide.

Trius Therapeutics is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing antibiotics to treat life-threatening bacterial infections. Torezolid phosphate, its most important drug in development, is an IV- and orally-administered antibiotic with a potential to treat antibiotic-resistant strains of staph infections, known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Until the company is able to sell torezolid phosphate to hospitals and other health care providers, the company is primarily funded by government grants, research contracts, and collaboration agreements. The company filed for an initial public offering in November 2009.

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