Which Country are Merck & Co. and Melior Discovery based out of?
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Melior Discovery Melior Discovery, Inc. is a private biopharmaceutical company based in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA. The company specializes in drug repositioning and has established a proprietary phenotypic screening platform that it uses for this purpose. Melior also offers certain contract research organization (CRO) services comprising animal models representing different disease conditions. The Company has issued press releases disclosing partnerships with Pfizer, Merck & Co., Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca, all citing the use of the company’s drug repositioning technology. Melior Discovery has also used its technology to discover its own drug candidates. In March 2009 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a type 2 diabetes therapeutic candidate, MLR-1023. In 2013 the company reported a licensing partnership with Bukwang Pharmaceutical Company LTD and the initiation of clinical trials in March 2015. In June 2016 the company reported positive results from their Phase 2a clinical study in diabetic subjects
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Merck &amp; Co. Merck & Co., Inc. (), d.b.a. Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, is an American pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
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Gen-Probe Gen-Probe was a company based in San Diego, California specializing in Clinical Diagnostics, Blood Screening, Transplant Products and Research Products. The Company's molecular diagnostics products were used for diagnosis of infectious diseases, blood screening, analyzing blood transfusions for immune response, testing coagulation pathways, and organ transplant viability. Their products and services also included technology and know-how in biomedical research and drug development.
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Melvita Melvita is an international retailer of body, face, and home products based in Lagorce, France. The company was founded in 1983 by biologist and beekeeper, Bernard Chevilliat on a farm in the Ardèche, France.
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Menarini The Menarini Group is an Italian pharmaceutical company. It was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1886. Its headquarters is in Florence and has three divisions: Menarini Ricerche, Menarini Biotech and Menarini Diagnostics. It is committed to the search for pharmacological solutions for such therapeutic areas as cardiovascular diseases, oncology, pain/inflammation, asthma and anti-infectives. Menarini's research activities are carried out through Menarini Ricerche, which deals with all R&D activities, from the creation of new projects up to the drug registration. Its Menarini Biotech follows the creation of a biotechnological drug from the very early stages of research, through to the pilot scale and up to industrial production. The Group's Menarini Diagnostics division is a health care company with a worldwide network of affiliates partners and distributors focused on diabetes, haematology, clinical chemistry, urinalysis, and immunology. In 2011, the company had 13,081 employees worldwide.
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Unilever Unilever ( ) is a Dutch-British transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands and London, United Kingdom. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue, and is also the world's largest producer of food spreads, such as margarine. It is Europe’s 7th-most valuable company. Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies; its products are available in around 190 countries.
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Uppsala Monitoring Centre Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), located in Uppsala, Sweden, is the field name for the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. UMC works by collecting, assessing and communicating information from member countries' national pharmacovigilance centres in regard to the benefits, harm, effectiveness and risks of drugs.
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P. Roy Vagelos Pindaros Roy Vagelos, better known as P. Roy Vagelos or Roy Vagelos (born October 8, 1929 in Westfield, New Jersey), is an American physician and business executive, who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside the U.S.). He attracted research scientists who developed many major new drugs.
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Mellin's Food Mellin's Food Company was a maker of Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Medarex Medarex (former NASDAQ symbol: MEDX ) was an American biopharmaceutical company based in Princeton, New Jersey, with manufacturing facilities in Bloomsbury and Annandale, New Jersey, and research facilities in Milpitas and Sunnyvale, California. In 2009, Medarex was purchased by Bristol Myers Squibb.
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Medior Medior is a user interface design company based in the United States. It was acquired by AOL in May 1995.
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Theranos Theranos ( ) is an American privately held health technology company based in Palo Alto, California. The company is known for its marketing of its efforts to create blood tests that used small sample volume technology. It was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes at the age of 19. By 2014, Theranos had raised more than $400 million in funding with an estimated value of $9 billion.
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Mankind Pharma Mankind Pharma is a pharmaceutical company in India based at New Delhi. The company has products in therapeutic areas ranging from unds, to gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, dermal, and erectile dysfunction medications. It is the 4th largest drug maker in India as per IMS-HEALTH, 2015. Also it is No.1 Company of India as per Prescription/Doctor/Month audit of IMS-Health, 2012.
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3H Biomedical 3H Biomedical is a biotechnology company based in Uppsala, Sweden, where it operates out of Uppsala Science Park. The company develops, produces and markets cell-based tools for life science, tissue engineering, drug discovery and cosmetics testing. 3H Biomedical also offers contract research services. The company's research and development focus lies in the fields of cell immune therapy and adult stem cell therapy.
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InvivoGen Invivogen is a manufacturer of life science research products. It is based in San Diego, California and conducts business worldwide.
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Prosol Prosol S.p.A. is an Italian biotechnology company headquartered in Madone, Lombardy region, Italy. Founded in 1974, it primarily develops and markets nutritional ingredients for the food industry and livestock area, especially yeast and yeast extracts, nucleotides, ribonucleic acid, probiotics and natural enhancers. Prosol has an in-house developed technology and its plants cover an area of 28000 sq. m, employing about 38 people and working both in domestic and international markets. The company is the original developer and distributor of Biosprint, an active dry yeast used for animal nutrition, and Ribomix, Ribocare, Levimaxi, Brist, Ribonucleic acid trademarks for human nutrition. The company has received the ISO, GMP+, IFS and OHSAS 18001 certifications.
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IPtronics IPtronics was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its products include integrated circuits for parallel optical interconnect applications intended for the computer, storage and communication industries. IPtronics' design center is certified by STMicroelectronics, which is also their semiconductor foundry partner. In June 2013, IPtronics was acquired by Mellanox Technologies.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India that was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer; he named the company after his two sons. The company initially sold its products in India, Russia, and Africa. The company went public in India in 1999, and used some of the proceeds to build its first research facility. Saldanha's son Glenn took over as CEO in 2001, having returned to India after working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. By 2008 Glenmark was the fifth biggest pharmaceutical company in India.
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Eurogentec Eurogentec is an international biotechnology supplier, based in Belgium, that specializes in genomics and proteomics kits and reagents as well as cGMP biologics. The company was founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the University of Liège. Eurogentec's contract manufacturing organization facilities are licensed by the Belgian Ministry of Health to produce clinical trial and commercial biopharmaceutical material and also licensed by the US FDA to manufacture a commercial recombinant protein product for the US market. Eurogentec operates two manufacturing facilities in Belgium that provide custom biologics and oligonucleotide-based components for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
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CapeRay Medical CapeRay Medical (Pty) Ltd. is a privately held company based in Cape Town, South Africa, that develops, manufactures and supplies medical imaging equipment for the diagnosis of breast cancer. The company was originally formed as African Medical Imaging (AMI) in 1999 as a joint venture between De Beers and the University of Cape Town.
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Merida Bikes Merida Industry Co., Ltd (MIC) is a Taiwan-based bicycle design, manufacture, and sales company with R&D headquarters in Germany. It was started in 1972 by Ike Tseng. The original layout was based on the Raleigh Nottingham factory as Merida began by making Raleigh bikes for the North American market. Ike was a talented engineer, and the company grew to become an OE manufacturer of well-respected brands.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics for genetically defined diseases. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2016, "Forbes" included the company on its "100 Most Innovative Growth Companies" list.