Chesapeake Biological Laboratories (CBL) provides product development and commercial drug production services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. It also manufactures experimental drugs for use in clinical trials. The company specializes in biopharmaceuticals, materials derived from naturally occurring biological substances. CBL's primary operations are sterilizing and filling liquid drugs and production lyophilization, the process of filling drug containers while limiting the product's exposure to room temperature. CBL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian biopharma firm Cangene.

Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Richmond, California. Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. engages in the research, development, and commercialization of zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs) for gene regulation and gene modification in the United States. Its ZFPs can be engineered to make ZFP transcription factors (ZFP TFs), proteins that can be used to turn genes on or off; and ZFP nucleases, proteins that enable to modify DNA sequences in various ways. The company’s ZFP Therapeutic, SB-509, a plasmid formulation of a ZFP TF activator of the vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) gene, which is in three Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy and one Phase 2 trial for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It also develops SB-728-T, which is in the Phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. In addition, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. involves in the preclinical development programs of ZFP therapeutics that focus on spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neuropathic pain, and Parkinson's disease. Additionally, the company has research-stage programs in X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency, hemophilia, and hemoglobinopathies. It has license agreements with companies, including Dow AgroSciences, LLC;Sigma-Aldrich Corporation; Pfizer, Inc.; Genentech Inc.; and Medarex, Inc., as well as has research agreements with Amgen Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., Novartis A/G, and Kirin Brewery Company.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma makes proprietary prescription pharmaceuticals in a number of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neuroscience, immunology, and oncology. In its home market, it sells products such as anticoagulant Anplag, anti-allergy medicine Talion, liver drug Urso, and neuroprotective agent Radicut. Its Benesis unit makes therapeutic plasma proteins such as albumin. The company markets and sells its products through in-house sales agents and distributors. Formerly Mitsubishi Pharma, the company merged with fellow Japanese drugmaker Tanabe Seiyaku and subsequently changed its name; Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings owns a majority stake in the new entity.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a global biopharmaceutical company, engages in discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. The company focuses on the areas of serious unmet medical need, such as cardiovascular disease, mental illness, cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes, solid organ transplantation, and Alzheimer's disease. Its lead products include cardiovascular medicines, including PLAVIX and AVAPRO/AVALIDE; ABILIFY, a medicine for the treatment of mental illness; ERBITUX, SPRYCEL, and IXEMPRA, which are cancer medicines; HIV medicines, such as REYATAZ, SUSTIVA, and ATRIPLA; BARACLUDE, a medicine for hepatitis B; ONGLYZA, a type 2 diabetes treatment; and ORENCIA, a medicine for rheumatoid arthritis. The company also has a pipeline with compounds in phase III clinical trials, including apixaban, dapagliflozin, ipilimumab, belatacept, and brivanib. It sells its products to wholesalers, distributors, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, and pharmacies. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company has agreements with Sanofi-Aventis; Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Eli Lilly and Company; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; AstraZeneca PLC; Pfizer, Inc.; and various biotech companies.

Essential Group, Inc. company was founded in 1994 and taken private in 2007. Essential Group (formerly AmericasDoctor) is helping medical researchers find a more advanced way to cure that bellyache. The company acts as a contract research organization (CRO) to handle everything needed in a clinical drug trial, including study design, patient recruitment, clinical monitoring, and writing up the findings. It conducts Phase I-IV trials in areas such as cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, and women's health through test sites across the US. Essential Group's primary clients are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

"Osme" means smell in Greek, and Osmetech is intent on finding ways to sniff out what's wrong with people. Founded in 1993, the company has several molecular diagnostics products on the market. Its eSensor system can detect RNA and DNA targets, such as genes that indicate sensitivity to certain drugs, as well as for detecting cystic fibrosis carriers. Though headquartered in the UK, the company's principal operations are in the US. Its diagnostic systems, tubes, and microarrays are used by hospitals, laboratories, and physician practices through its US sales force and a network of international distributors.

New Brunswick Scientific Co. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. As of September 24, 2007, New Brunswick Scientific Co. Inc. is a subsidiary of Eppendorf AG. New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. and its subsidiaries provide various research equipment and scientific instruments for the life sciences industry. It engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of equipment that creates, maintains, measures, and controls the physical and biochemical conditions required for the growth, detection, and storage of biological cultures. The company’s products include fermentation equipment, bioreactors, biological shakers, ultra-low temperature freezers, CO2 incubators, nutrient sterilizing and dispensing equipment, tissue culture apparatus, and air samplers. Its products are used in medical, biological, chemical, and environmental research; and for the commercial development of antibiotics, proteins, hormones, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, agricultural products, fuels, vitamins, vaccines, and other substances. The company sells its equipment to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies; agricultural and chemical companies; other industrial customers engaged in biotechnology; and medical schools, universities, research institutes, hospitals, and private laboratories; and laboratories of federal, state, and municipal government departments and agencies. It also sells its equipment directly, as well as through scientific equipment dealers to foreign companies, institutions, and governments. The company primarily operates in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

GelStat Corporation engages in the development and marketing of over the counter and other nonprescription consumer health care products for pain and inflammation. It markets GelStat Migraine, a homeopathic drug, for the treatment of migraine and migraine-like headaches, as well as GelStat Arthritis, a sublingual dissolving tablet for the treatment of pain and associated symptoms of arthritis. The company is also developing other products that are in the final stages of development, which include GelStat Sinus for the remedy of nasal and/or sinus congestion, irritation, pressure, and sinus headache; and GelStat Sleep for promoting restful sleep. The company sells its products to regional and national retailers, wholesalers, specialty distributors, and catalog merchandisers in the United States directly and through sales brokers. GelStat Corporation is based in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Genzyme Diagnostics was founded in 1981. A division of Genzyme, it develops, manufactures, and distributes "in vitro" diagnostic products, including point-of-care tests. The division also produces the raw materials (such as enzymes and antibodies used in tests for diabetes, cholesterol, and pancreatitis) and chemical reagents used by other diagnostic test manufacturers to make their own diagnostic tests. The company's point-of-care products (tests administered at a patient's bedside) include tests for strep A, mononucleosis, and bacterial vaginitis; it also offers several different pregnancy tests.

Ricerca Biosciences LLC company provides one stop shopping of pharmacology and toxicology, medicinal chemistry, drug substance synthesis, and preclinical and clinical development for small to medium pharmaceutical companies looking to bring drugs to market. The contract research organization (CRO) also offers regulatory filing and report writing services. Ricerca Biosciences provides expanded services through partnerships with companies such as Bicoll Group, Latitude Pharmaceuticals, and Xcelience Formulation Development.

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