Herbalife Ltd. (Herbalife) is a global network marketing company that sells weight management, nutritional supplement, energy, sports and fitness products, and personal care products. Herbalife sells its products in 70 countries through a network of over 1.9 million independent distributors. The Company offers science-based products in four principal categories: weight management, targeted nutrition, energy, sports and fitness, and Outer Nutrition. In October 2008, Herbalife announced that it has begun doing business in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. These countries become part of the Company's Mexico and Central America region. Five products from Herbalife's nutrition line will be available in each market, including the Company's flagship Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix, in four flavors; Performance Protein Powder; Herbal Aloe Drink Concentrate; NRG Tea, and Thermojetics Tea.

MicroIslet, Inc. is a biotechnology company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of technologies in the field of transplantation therapy for people with conditions requiring cell-based replacement treatments, with a focus on type 1, or insulin-dependent diabetes. Islet transplantation technology, licensed from Duke University, along with the Company's developments, constitutes methods for isolating, culturing, cryopreservation, and immuno-protection (microencapsulation) of islet cells. MicroIslet intends to continue its research and development efforts and to introduce products to the market.

EXACT Sciences Corporation company was founded in 1995 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. Exact Sciences Corporation, a molecular diagnostics company, focuses on the early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer. The company has exclusive intellectual property protecting its non-invasive, molecular screening technology for the detection of colorectal cancer. Its non-invasive stool-based DNA (sDNA) screening technology includes proprietary and patented methods that isolate and analyze human DNA present in stool to screen for the presence of colorectal pre-cancer and cancer. The company's principal product includes ColoSure, a non-invasive laboratory developed stool-based DNA testing service for the detection of colorectal cancer in the average-risk population. Exact Sciences Corporation has strategic alliances with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, the MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research, and Genzyme Corporation.

CEL-SCI Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Vienna, Virginia. CEL-SCI Corporation, is engaged in the development of a product called Multikine for the treatment of cancer. It simulates the activities of a healthy person's immune system, which battles cancer every day. Multikine is multi-targeted, it is the cancer immunotherapy that both kills cancer cells in a targeted fashion and activates the general immune system to destroy the cancer. Multikine is a type of immunotherapy in that it is immunotherapy, incorporating both active and passive immune activity.

Mylan Inc. was founded in 1961 and is based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Mylan Inc. (Mylan) and its subsidiaries comprise a global pharmaceutical company that develops, licenses, manufactures, markets and distributes generic, brand and branded generic pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). As of May 5, 2009, the Company held a 71.2% interest in Matrix Laboratories Limited (Matrix). Through Matrix, it manufactures and supplies API for its own products and pipeline, as well as for third parties. Mylan has three segments: the Generics Segment, the Matrix Segment and the Specialty Segment. Mylan markets more than 570 products to consumers in more than 140 countries. Mylan’s products cover an array of therapeutic categories, and offer a range of dosage forms and delivery systems, including oral solids, controlled-release, steriles, injectables, topicals, liquids, transdermals, semi-solids and high-potency products. On June 2, 2008, the Company acquired Merck KGaA’s Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) generics businesses.

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals is giving diseases the silent treatment. The biopharmaceutical company is attempting to develop therapies that inhibit or "silence" certain disease-causing genes through ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi), a mechanism that disrupts the production of proteins that can lead to cancer, metabolic, and infectious diseases. Tekmira's lead candidates are being developed to treat tumors and high cholesterol. It also partners with other pharmaceutical companies, such as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Roche, to advance additional RNAi products using Tekmira's stable nucleic acid-lipid particles (SNALP) RNAi drug delivery technology.

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Acorda) is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the identification, development and commercialization of therapies that improve neurological function in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury (SCI), and other disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). The Company’s marketed product, Zanaflex Capsules, is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of spasticity. The Company’s product candidate Fampridine-SR, has completed two positive Phase III clinical trials for the improvement of walking ability in patients with MS. The research and development programs for the Company include Remyelination Programs and Chondroitinase Program.

Noramco, a subsidiary of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson, makes active pharmaceutical ingredients used in the medications and medical devices made by Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries (including Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Janssen, and Ethicon), as well as third parties. The company was founded in 1979 to support the manufacture of Ortho-McNeil's Tylenol with codeine product line. It is one of a very few US companies allowed by the DEA to import such controlled substances as opium for use in painkillers like oxycodone and morphine. Noramco operates two manufacturing facilities in Athens, Georgia, and Wilmington, Delaware.

Roche Holding (UK) is the holding company for Roche Products Limited and Roche Diagnostics Limited. The two UK subsidiaries develop and manufacture various products and equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Its pharmaceuticals include Copegus, a hepatitis C therapy; HIV inhibitor Fuzeon; and breast cancer therapy Herceptin. The firm's diagnostics arm makes a variety of consumer and professional tests, including Accu-Chek glucose monitoring systems, CoaguChek blood coagulation tests, and the Amplicor line of DNA disease diagnostics.

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.

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