Pharmaceuticals Industry Competitors

Alexza Pharmaceuticals has found that some good can come out of smoking cigarettes. Though they deliver harmful chemicals, cigarettes deliver those chemicals almost instantly. That is the basis for Alexza Pharmaceutical's primary product, Staccato inhalers....

Allon Therapeutics is firing up every cylinder to get going. Allon Therapeutics develops treatments for neurodegenerative diseases that lead to memory loss and cognitive impairment. Lead candidate AL-108 could treat Alzheimer's disease as well as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis....

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) ensures that residents of the land down under have the health care and beauty products they need. The company provides a variety of pharmaceutical services through its retail, manufacturing, and pharmacy distribution divisions....

Bayer Healthcare takes disease very seriously. Focused on the discovery and manufacture of products used to diagnose, prevent, and treat disease, the company serves the health needs of people and animals worldwide. Bayer HealthCare operates through four divisions: Animal Health (veterinary drugs); Consumer Care (OTC meds); Diabetes Care; and Pharmaceuticals (represented by Bayer-Schering Pharma and Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals)....

China Pharmaceuticals International is a development stage company controlled by Hong Kong-based China Merchant DiChain Investment Holdings. Formerly Wilmington Rexford, the company had owned a portfolio of e-commerce operations, including EntertainMe.com, which offers movies, music and retail electronics, and Langara Distribution, which provides fulfillment services....

Improving health is pure gold in the land whose name means silver. GlaxoSmithKline Argentina has manufacturing and supply operations, as well as units devoted to consumer healthcare (dermatological, analgesic, oral care, gastrointestinal relief, and vitamin products) and to pharmaceutical products (anesthetic, antibiotic, oncologic, respiratory, and other drugs, as well as vaccines)....

Sano is top-of-mind at GlaxoSmithKline S.p.A., or GSK Italy, the Italian unit of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. GSK Italy has several subsidiaries. The company's operations include manufacturing facilities in Parma and Verona, a consumer healthcare unit devoted to popular consumer products and over-the-counter drugs, and generic drugmaker Allen....

Grifols has a good grip on the healthcare industry. The company provides products and services through three primary divisions: bioscience, diagnostic, and hospital. The bioscience division processes plasma from the company's collection centers into therapeutic derivative products such as coagulation factors and liver dialysis products....

Hana Biosciences is fighting the good fight against the big "C." The development stage pharmaceutical company is looking to acquire and develop new drugs with a focus on cancer treatments. Its lead product PT-523 treats solid tumors by preventing DNA synthesis in target cells thereby preventing tumor growth....

Laureate Pharma's protein purification and other production processes are pure poetry in motion. The contract manufacturing organization develops, manufactures, and packages products used by pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies to make drugs. The company's biopharmaceutical division specializes in making monoclonal antibodies and provides protein production and purification....

Marligen Biosciences is where researchers go again and again for testing products and services. The company makes nucleic acid purification systems, genetic analysis assays, and other genomics research supplies. Its nucleic acid purification systems include rapid plasma purification systems which are used for isolation DNA so it can mapped, cloned, amplified, labeled, sequenced....

Pharmaxis has an Bunyan-sized axe to grind with chronic respiratory and autoimmune diseases. The Australian company researches, develops, and aids in marketing therapeutic pharmaceutical products to combat these and other illnesses. Some of the company's top product candidates include Aridol (an asthma treatment), Bronchitol (a treatment for cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and PXS2076 (developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis)....

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Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group, or SPGC, knows that Big Pharma is big business. China's oldest and largest pharmaceutical company, SPGC makes more than 5,000 products including antibiotics, anti-psychotic drugs, over the counter (OTC) medicines, prescription drugs, and traditional Chinese medicine....

Biodel delves into the development of viable treatments for endocrine disorders. The company uses its VIAdel biological technology to reformulate and administer existing peptide drugs. Its two main product candidates are in clinical trials for treating diabetes....

Critical Therapeutics wants to help asthma sufferers breathe a little easier. The drug discovery firm is focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic products to prevent and treat the acute inflammation associated with asthma and critical care diseases....

Cyprotex produces technological systems that monitor and evaluate drug discovery experiments. The discoveries in question focus on the ADME properties (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion). The UK-based company's ADME-related top products include its Cloe Screen, an in vitro toxicity service, and Cloe PK, a pharmacokinetics prediction system....

Diamond Entertainment is eschewing its entertainment business for a career in healthcare. The company acquired Rx Africa PLC, a company that makes AIDS/HIV, malaria, and other drugs in Ethiopia, in 2007. The company decided to focus its business on pharmaceuticals and has sold off its DVD inventory....

eFoodSafety.com is a development-stage company with a handful of products and potential products intended to make the world a better place. Subsidiary Knock-Out Technologies has developed an environmentally-safe germicidal topical spray that kills some of the most frequent bacterial pathogens....

Elixir Pharmaceuticals concocts treatments targeting metabolic diseases and disorders. Dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of treatments for such diseases as diabetes and obesity, the company has taken a dual approach to its work; licensing products from other pharmaceutical companies for development, as well as pursuing proprietary products....