Biotechnology companies

Abbott Laboratories is a pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has around 56,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, IL, a northern suburb of Chicago, IL, near its manufacturing center in North Chicago, Illinois. In 2001, Abbott acquired Knoll, the phamaceutical division of BASF. In 2003, Abbott had nearly $20 billion in sales. In 2004, Abbott spun off its hospital products division into a new 14,000 employee company named Hospira. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abbott Laboratories"

Agendia B.V. (Amsterdam GENetic DIAgnostics) is an Amsterdam based company that performs gene expression analysis ( microarray) based diagnostics. It was founded in 2003 by Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) researchers Laura van 't Veer and René Bernards and Bernhard Sixt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agendia"

Allerca, a Los Angeles-based company, announced on 24 October 2004 that within three years it will be able to produce a hypoallergenic cat using genetic modification. At the same time, the company denied that it will be able to do the same for dogs, because whereas cats have a single gene that produces the allergenic protein, dogs have many allergenic proteins controlled by multiple genes. (San Jose Mercury News) ...more on Wikipedia about "Allerca"

Almirall Prodesfarma, S.A. is a Spanish pharmaceutical multinational. The company is headquartered in Barcelona. ...more on Wikipedia about "Almirall Prodesfarma"

Amgen Inc. ( , ) is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Amgen is the largest independent biotech firm, with approx. 15,000 staff members in 2005. Its products include EPOGEN, ARANESP, ENBREL, Kineret, Neulasta, NEUPOGEN, and Sensipar / Mimpara. EPOGEN and NEUPOGEN (the company's first products to hit the market) were the two most successful biopharmaceutical products at the time of their respective releases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amgen"

Attogenix Biosystems Pte Ltd is a Singapore biotechnology company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Attogenix Biosystems"

The Baby Gender Mentor test is a blood test designed to determine if an expectant mother is carrying a boy or a girl. The test is made by Acu-Gen Biolab, Inc, a biotech company in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the United States and is marketed to detect the gender of a fetus five weeks post conception. The company says that the accuracy of the test exceeds that of conventional methods, such as ultrasonography, amniotic fluid culture, chorionic villus sampling and serum-DNA QPCR technique and that their test offers "unsurpassed accuraccy, unrivaled earliness, and uncompromised promptness". The company offers a money back guarantee that all test results will be available within 48 hours after receiving a sample. The company does not guarantee that the result will be accurate. Acu-gen has so far chosen not to release details of how the test works or proof of its accuracy, as they consider these materials to be proprietary. Some customers and scientists are questioning the accuraccy of test, and a major supplier of the test is under criminal investigation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baby Gender Mentor"

Bayer AG (German pronunciation "BYE-er", in US usually pronounced "BAY-er") ( , ) is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is well-known for its original brand of aspirin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bayer"

Biogen Idec Inc., is a pharmaceutical company specializing in drugs for autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen and San Diego, California-based Idec Pharmaceuticals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biogen Idec"

(Boehringer-Ingelheim) Boehringer Ingelheim is a global pharmaceutical company based in Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boehringer-Ingelheim"

CoTherix, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company located in San Francisco, California. CoTherix focusses on licensing, developing and commercializing therapeutic products for the treatment of cardiopulmonary and other chronic diseases. The company,formerly known as Exhale Therapeutics, Inc., was founded in February 2000 by Gerard Turino, MD, a past president of the American Thoracic Society, and Jerome Cantor, MD, a pulmonary pathologist. Their primary commercial product is "Ventavis (iloprost)", an inhalable therapy for pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in December 2004, two months after the company's initial public offering of 5 millions shares of common stock. ...more on Wikipedia about "CoTherix"

deCODE genetics, Inc. (Íslensk erfðagreining in Icelandic) is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland. deCODE applies its discoveries in human genetics to the development of drugs for common diseases. deCODE has isolated key genes involved in schizophrenia, cardiovascular disease and cancer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Decode Genetics"

One of the world's largest corporations, Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eli Lilly and Company"

Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that specializes on the development and marketing of peptides for the use in human medicine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ferring Pharmaceuticals"

Florigene is a biotechnology company based in Melbourne, Australia which is principally involved in the application of in-house genetic modification techniques to develop novel colour expressions in a range of commercial plants. ...more on Wikipedia about "Florigene"

Genentech, Inc. ( ), a composite of Genetic Engineering Tech, Inc., is a leading biotechnology corporation, which was founded in 1976 by Robert A. Swanson, a venture capitalist, and biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. It is considered to have founded the biotechnology industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genentech"

Geron Corporation is a biotechnology company founded by Dr. Michael West that is based in Menlo Park, California. Incorporated in 1990, Geron Corporation focuses on creating drugs based on telomere and stem cell research. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geron Corporation"

GlaxoSmithKline plc ( ) is a British based pharmaceutical, biologicals, and healthcare company. The second largest pharmaceutical company in the world (after Pfizer), the company had sales of £20.3 billion and made a profit of £6.1 billion in 2004. It employs around 100,000 people worldwide, including over 40,000 in sales and marketing. Its worldwide headquarters is in London, with dual U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia and Research Triangle Park. ...more on Wikipedia about "GlaxoSmithKline"

Merck & Co., Inc. or Merck Sharp and Dohme (as it is known outside the USA and Canada) is a US pharmaceutical company. It was originally the US subsidiary of the German company, Merck KGaA. In common with many other German assets in the United States, Merck & Co. was confiscated in 1917 during First World War and set up as an independent company. It is now one of the top 5 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by capital and revenue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Merck & Co."

Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Novartis"

Organon International, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey that is part of Akzo Nobel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Organon International"

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Sanofi-Aventis ( , ), headquartered in Paris, France, is the world's number three company in the pharmaceutical industry (behind Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, but above Merck and AstraZeneca). Sanofi-Aventis engages in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principlally in the presciption market. Sanofi-Aventis covers 7 therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, thrombosis, oncology, diabetes, central nervous system, internal medicine and vaccines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sanofi-Aventis"

G.D. Searle & Company was a company focusing on life sciences, specifically pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal health. ...more on Wikipedia about "Searle (company)"

Serono is a biotechnology company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The company was incorporated in 1987 and the holding company, Ares-Serono S.A., changed its name to Serono S.A. in May 2000. The company develops and markets pharmaceuticals in the fields of Reproductive Health, Multiple Sclerosis and Growth & Metabolism. It is world-leader in the infertility market with an estimated market share of 60%, making it the third largest biotechnology company in the world. Serono's most important product accounted for 31.6% of the company's sales in 2004. Currently the company has a partnership in product development with Genentech Inc., a US biotechnology company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Serono"

Syngenta AG is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2004 were approximately US$ 7.3 billion. Syngenta employs some 20,000 people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss stock exchange ( SWX: SYNN) and in New York . ...more on Wikipedia about "Syngenta" shortopedia - Xtending Info. Biotechnology_companies

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