Botanical Laboratories was founded in 1988 and is led by CEO Jim Thornton, a long-time venture capital investor in the consumer health care sector. Botanical Laboratories, Inc. (BLI) is your garden-variety nutritional supplement maker. It manufactures its own branded nutritional supplements and also offers private label manufacturing of nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies. BLI's consumer products include dietary supplements distributed under its Wellesse brand and sold at retail food and drug stores, such as CVS and Costco. From capsule to carton, its contract manufacturing division offers customers turnkey production and packaging, development, quality control, and testing services nationwide.

Nutrition 21, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. Nutrition 21, Inc., a nutritional bioscience company, develops, markets, and distributes proprietary and clinically substantiated nutritional supplements in the United States. The company sells Chromax branded chromium picolinate to vitamin and supplement and food manufacturers and marketers, as well as directly to retailers for use in human and animal nutrition products. It also develops and commercializes Diabetes Essentials, a proprietary, non-prescription, insulin sensitizer for people with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the company offers a portfolio of health and wellness products under the Iceland Health Maximum Strength Omega-3, Iceland Health Joint Relief, Iceland Health Advanced Memory Formula, Chromax chromium picolinate, Prescriptix Supplements, and Diabetes Essentials names. In addition, Nutrition 21, Inc. grants patent licenses to its ingredients to manufacturers and marketers of vitamin and mineral supplements.

Targeted Genetics is putting the bull's-eye on disease. The drug developer is working in the promising (though as yet unproven) field of gene therapies, drugs that deliver particular DNA sequences into targeted cells to encourage (or sometimes inhibit) the production of proteins associated with disease. The company's drug candidates -- targeting conditions such as retinal dystrophies, lateral sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, heart failure, and Huntington's disease -- employ proprietary technology using bio-engineered viral cells (called vectors) to deliver the genes. The company is working on its own to develop therapies for certain candidates and with development partners on some other programs.

Servier is an independent, French pharmaceutical company which manufactures and sells drugs to combat cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, and stroke. Cardiovascular drugs account for about two-thirds of the company's annual revenues. It also produces medicines to treat diabetes, venous disease, and cancer. Annually, more than 700 million boxes of drugs are produced by Servier. Its pharmaceutics can be found in 140 countries; 80% of its sales are generated internationally.

For biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies whose next big breakthrough is stuck in the test tube, Oxford Therapeutics Consulting could have the answer. The product development consulting firm offers strategic planning and product management for biotechs and pharmas that are short on staff and experience in bringing a new product through the lengthy development pipeline. Oxford Therapeutics' team of consultants work primarily with smaller companies on products such as anticancer agents, antibacterial and antiviral compounds, and therapeutic vaccines.

Sovereign Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1990. Sovereign Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. company arms its customers with made-to-order OTC and prescription medications that combat gastrointestinal, respiratory, and cold symptoms. Its manufacuring plant has the capacity to make more than 3 million pints of liquid and more than 650 million tablets a year. Other capabilities include the manufacture of creams, ointments, and suspensions. In addition, the company offers custom packaging and research and development services.

Purdue Pharma L.P. company specializes in developing, manufacturing, and marketing sustained-release and long-acting treatments for chronic and severe pain. Its opioid drugs for pain relief include controlled-release analgesics OxyContin (a version of oxycodone), Ryzolt (tramadol), and morphine drug MS Contin. The company continues to develop and commercialize new products through alliances with such companies as Transcept and Labopharm. Purdue also sells a number of non-prescription products including topical antiseptic Betadine and the Colace and Senokot lines of laxatives. Purdue Pharma operates in the US.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes products for neurology and psychiatry primarily in the United States. The company's marketed products include Xyrem for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy in patients with narcolepsy; and Luvox CR for obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder. Its product candidate in Phase III clinical trials comprise JZP-6 for the treatment of fibromyalgia. The company's other product candidates in clinical development comprises JZP-8, an intranasal formulation of clonazepam for the treatment of recurrent acute repetitive seizures in epilepsy patients who continue to have seizures while on stable anti-epileptic regimens; JZP-4, a controlled release formulation of an anticonvulsant for the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder; and JZP-7 for the treatment of restless legs syndrome.

Penn Pharmaceutical Services wants to help you by helping others, specifically pharmaceutical companies. Penn offers a variety of products and services: clinical trial supplies; formulation and analytical development; chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) consultancy; qualified person (QP) audits; and contract manufacturing services. It also offers logistical management services, such as exporting and reporting. In 2007 Penn, which serves many US clients, opened an American arm, Penn Pharmaceutical Services US, in Philadelphia.

MWG-Biotech is doing its part to help decode the world's most complicated and delicate language: the genome. The company has developed a highly sophisticated system of gene sequencing, analysis and genotyping, as well as applying those analyses to replacement, alteration, and synthesis of RNA and oligonucleotides. Its automated laboratories can carry out tasks in less than two days. The company performs its sequencing work at production sites in Germany, India, and the US.

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