Biotechnology Research Services Industry Competitors

Advanced Biologics isn't a hardcore science course for upperclassmen, it's a contract research organization (CRO) that provides clinical trial services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company oversees clinical studies (phases I through IV) for drugs being developed to battle infectious diseases, cancer, neurological diseases, urologic conditions, and women's health problems....

Agencourt Bioscience helps pave the way for biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on new drug and substance discovery. The company provides genomic services (including DNA and whole genome sequencing) and nucleic acid purification products that help researchers improve the effectiveness of their drug development process....

Nobody wants to wait years and years for the drugs they need today -- least of all the drug companies. Althea Technologies provides services that help drug developers reduce the time, risk, and cost involved in the drug discovery and testing process....

Argenta Discovery is ready to do some exploring on its own. The pharmaceutical research and development group has primarily has built its business on contract drug discovery services, but it has placed an increased emphasis on the discovery and development of proprietary therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory diseases....

Astex Therapeutics (formerly Astex Technology) is working on Pyramids, but on a much, much smaller scale than the Egyptians did. The company's Pyramid is a fragment-based drug discovery platform that utilizes X-ray crystallography to develop small molecule drugs....

Just please don't be tempted to call them "Babe": Babraham Bioscience Technologies (BBT) is the operating company of the Babraham Institute, which works with companies around the world on pharmaceutical and biotechnology research projects. The company is committed to fostering innovation and bridging the gap from research to daily application....

Bilcare, Inc., formerly ProClinical Pharmaceutical Services, is in favor of pharma. The company, which also operates as Bilcare Global Clinical Services, helps pharmaceutical companies prepare for and conduct clinical trials. Bilcare's offerings include a wide range of analytical research, formulation development, manufacturing, and packaging and labeling of clinical supplies....

Are your chemoinformatics uninformed? BioFocus DPI takes the guesswork out of your drug discovery. The UK-based company specializes in pre-clinical drug discovery services and markets SoftFocus chemical libraries focusing on kinase, G-protein coupled receptor, and ion-channel....

BioMS Medical is a Canadian biomedical firm that develops therapies and treatments and brings them to market. The company concentrates its efforts on two primary candidates: HYC750 and MBP8298. HYC750 is a hyaluronic acid-based treatment for cancer treatment side effects....

England's Northwest region is a hotbed of biotechnology growth. It's Bionow's job to make the region even hotter -- and turn it into the center of biomanufacturing in Europe. Funded by the Northwest Development Agency, Bionow promotes and encourages growth in the area, which is already home to a plethora of biomanufacturing facilities for companies such as AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Chiron Vaccines....

Bridgehead International wants to give its clients a head start. The biopharmaceutical consulting firm operates three subsidiaries that provide a variety of services to companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and health care fields. Bridgehead Consulting offers technical and commercial advice to firms developing new health care products and ideas....

Pollinating cedar trees help CEDRA find plenty of sneezing participants for its allergy-drug trials. CEDRA provides bioanalytical, pharmacokinetic, biostatistical, and synthetic chemistry services. The company also conducts phase I-IV clinical drug trials through its two CEDRA Clinical Research facilities....

For biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, the devil is in the compound. Cerep offers tools and knowledge to help those companies discover and develop new drugs without having to start from scratch. It also developed a library of compounds that includes promising substances and drug candidates developed with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Synthelabo....

Charles River Laboratories International counts its chickens before they're hatched. Among other research products and services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, Charles River Laboratories develops pathogen-free, fertilized chicken eggs used in poultry vaccines....

Innovation is almost this company's name. ChemOvation offers contract drug discovery research and design services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. ChemOvation has expertise in organic and medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery. ChemOvation also provides protein binding and compound solubility measurements for clients' metabolism research....

When new drugs are tested, someone has to go first and Chiltern (Early Phase) Ltd. (formerly Drug Development Solutions) will help find that person. A contract research organization (CRO), the company specializes in bridging the gap between preclinical studies and the early stages of clinical trials in humans for drug candidates....

Hello, London calling. UK-based ClinPhone uses both the telephone as well as the Internet to help domestic and international pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies manage clinical trials. The clinical technology company provides Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services and trial supply solutions to improve electronic trial management and process workflow....

For CXR Biosciences, the crux of the matter is in the genes. With a focus on accelerating the pre-clinical drug development process for its clients, the company provides toxicological and pharmacological research services and technologies. CXR Biosciences' expertise lies in ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicology) screens....

UK-based De Novo Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery firm researching novel drug candidates for enzyme and receptor-based targets. The company employs a range of technologies in its discovery phase: scaffold hopping (or chemotype switching), intelligent fragment linking, and fragment-based design....

Disney's not the only one with a knockout mouse; in fact, Deltagen has a database full of them. The company provides information about gene functions to biopharmaceutical companies by creating mouse models with specific genes deleted, or knocked out. Deltagen can then study the function and potential relevance of the genes for the development of new drugs....