Chiron Corporation (/ˈkaɪrɒn/ KY-ron) was an American multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis on April 20, 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. Chiron's business and research was in three main areas: biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and blood testing. Chiron's vaccines and blood testing units were combined to form Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, while Chiron BioPharmaceuticals was integrated into Novartis Pharmaceuticals. In 2014, Novartis completed the sale of its blood transfusion diagnostics unit to Grifols and announced agreements for the sale of its vaccines unit to GlaxoSmithKline.

Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc. manufactures and markets health care and nutritional products. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in East Hanover, NJ.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma contribute to the healthier lives of people around the world through the creation of pharmaceuticals. Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma contribute to the healthier lives of people around the world through the creation of pharmaceuticals.” In accordance with this philosophy, as we implement our business activities we strive to realize our vision, which expresses that “Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma strive to be a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that is trusted by communities.” As a company that is trusted and highly evaluated by patients and health care professionals as well as by society and shareholders, we will implement management with a focus on transparency and fairness while always keeping in mind the starting point of our business activities: “Everything we do is for the patients.”

Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd. engages in the research, development, manufacture and sale of biological products. It operates through the Reagents and Investment segments. The Reagent segment supplies, manufactures, and sells clinical reagents and research reagents, and its related equipment and instruments. The Investment segment deals with investments on bio-related enterprises and mediates technical partnership. The company was founded on August 23, 1969 and is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan.

Toray Industries, Inc. (東レ株式会社 Tōre Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry.

Suzhou Galaxy Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., established on 2016-01-06, Business scope includes biotechnology,Biological and biochemical products,Research and development of biomedical engineering and related technical services,technical consulting,technology transfer,Technology Promotion;Experimental Biological Reagents,Research and development of experimental equipment,Sales;Engage in the import and export of the above commodities and technologies.(Items subject to approval by law,Business activities can only be carried out after approval by relevant departments)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was one of the UK’s most urgent health problems. A royal commission, entitled The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis, was set up in 1901. It aimed to find out whether tuberculosis in animals and humans was the same disease and whether animals and humans could infect each other. This page describes how, by 1919, the Commission had evolved into the independent Medical Research Council.