TolerRx, Inc. company develops therapies to treat patients with autoimmune diseases, including Type I diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Organ transplant rejection is also a target. The company's treatments induce immunological tolerance, or teach a body's immune system to recognize its own tissues and prevent it from attacking the tissue and causing disease. TolerRx has five autoimmune and two cancer/chronic viral drugs in the pipeline. The immune drugs include treatments for Type I diabetes, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. TolerRx was founded in 2000 by Herman Waldmann and Douglas J. Ringler.

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. company was founded in 1976 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Meridian Bioscience, Inc. operates as an integrated life science company. The company primarily engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and distribution of diagnostic test kits primarily for respiratory, gastrointestinal, viral, and parasitic infectious diseases. Its diagnostic test kits utilize immunodiagnostic technologies, which test samples of blood, urine, stool, and other body fluids or tissues for the presence of antigens and antibodies of specific infectious diseases. The immunodiagnostic technologies include enzyme immunoassay, immunofluorescence, particle agglutination/aggregation, immunodiffusion, complement fixation, and chemical stains. The company also provides transport media that store and preserve specimen samples from patient collection to laboratory testing. In addition, Meridian Bioscience manufactures and distributes bulk antigens, antibodies, and reagents used by researchers and other diagnostic manufacturers. Further, it involves in the contract development and manufacture of proteins and other biologicals for use by biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in research for new drugs and vaccines. Meridian Bioscience markets its diagnostic test kits through direct sales force and independent distributors to reference laboratories and hospitals primarily in the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Africa, and the Middle East.

SuperGen was founded in 1991 and is based in Dublin, California. SuperGen, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies to treat patients with cancer. The company licensed its new drug application approved product, Dacogen for the treatment of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. It primarily focuses on developing MP-470, a DNA repair suppressor; SGI-1776, a PIM kinase inhibitor; MP-529, an Aurora kinase inhibitor; SGI-110, a DNMT1 inhibitor; and SGI-1252, a JAK2 inhibitor. SuperGen also has an approved product, Mitozytrex for the treatment of solid tumors. In addition, the company is developing Orathecin, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of solid tumors; Partaject busulfan, a Phase I/II clinical trial product for neoplastic meningitis/bone marrow transplant; Partaject Orathecin, a non-clinical stage product for the treatment of solid tumors; and CZ 112, a Phase I clinical trial product for the treatment of solid tumors. It is also developing Cremophor-free paclitaxel, a non-clinical stage product for the treatment of solid tumors; Avicine, a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of cancer, which is in Phase II trial; VEGF, a non-clinical stage product for the treatment of anti-angiogenesis; PZG, a Phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of type II diabetes; and AM454, a phosphocholine derivative, which is in non-clinical stage for obesity/diabetes. The company sells its products to clinics, hospitals, hospital buying groups, drug distributors, and wholesalers in the United States and Europe. It has a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline Inc. to discover and develop cancer therapeutics based on epigenetic targets.

Founded in 1981, Generics (UK) Limited is a subsidiary of Mylan, the world's third largest generic drug maker. Generics (UK) Limited covers the pharmaceutical business. The name pretty much says it all. Generics (UK) Limited is one of the UK's largest generic pharmaceutical manufacturers, offering a line of more than 350 products sold to pharmacy retailers, hospitals, and wholesale customers. The company makes generic equivalents of such drugs as acid reflux remedy Pepcid, antibiotic Cipro, and allergy treatment Zyrtec.

Airborne, Inc. company makes a dietary supplement that contains herbal extracts, vitamins, electrolytes, amino acids, and antioxidants meant to boost the immune system. The effervescent tablets come in four flavors and a powdered formulation to be added to water. The products are sold nationwide in pharmacies, supermarkets, and mass merchant retailers such as Costco, CVS Caremark, Target, and Wal-Mart. Airborne was established in 1997 by former second-grade teacher Victoria Knight-McDowell. Private equity investors GF Capital Management holds a majority of the company.

diaDexus, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in South San Francisco, California. diaDexus, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic products to address the medical needs in the cardiovascular field. The company develops The PLAC Test, a blood test to aid in assessing risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and ischemic stroke associated with atherosclerosis. Its product measures lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), which is a vascular-specific inflammatory enzyme implicated in the formation of rupture-prone plaque. The company’s PLAC Test is available as an ELISA assay that runs on an automated micropate system, as well as in the form of immunotarbidimetric technology that runs on common clinical chemistry analyzers used in clinical reference laboratories, hospitals, and physician office laboratories.

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.

Takeda San Diego develops high-throughput protein crystallography systems used to speed up the drug discovery process. The company's technology can detect the three-dimensional shape of proteins, an important step in determining how a drug can be attached to a protein to produce a therapeutic effect. The US biotech developer is one of Japanese drug maker Takeda's main research and development facilities. The subsidiary's drug discovery know-how is being used to develop new therapies for metabolic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and inflammatory conditions.

Medical Nutrition USA, Inc. engages in the development and distribution of nutritional and health products in the United States. Its products primarily include the Pro-Stat line of enzyme-hydrolyzed liquid protein for the treatment of unintended weight loss, protein energy malnutrition, and pressure ulcers; UTI-Stat, a urinary tract cleansing complex used to reduce the incidence of urinary tract infection and promote urinary tract health; and Fiber-Stat, a liquid soluble fiber with FOS used to maintain bowel regularity and probiotic intestinal health. Medical Nutrition company's customers include long-term care facilities, hospitals, dialysis clinics, physicians, dispensing medical clinics, nursing homes, and network marketing companies. Medical Nutrition USA sells its branded products directly to distributors, who resell the products to end users, as well as sells through health food stores under private label or licensing agreements. Medical Nutrition USA, Inc. is based in Englewood, New Jersey.

Established in 1989 as the commercial arm of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, MRS assists UK agricultural and plant biotechology scientists develop their ideas into marketable products. Profits earned from its efforts are plowed back into the research institution. MRS labs offer pathogen testing, plant analysis, and consulting services. MRS works with companies interested in licensing technologies that the researchers use to breed high-quality varieties of potatoes, soft fruits, barley, and other agricultural products.

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