Genentech is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. It creates multiple products on the market and a development pipeline. The company became a member of the Roche Group in 2009. As part of their merger agreement, Roche and Genentech combined their pharmaceutical operations in the United States. Genentech’s South San Francisco campus now serves as the headquarters for Roche pharmaceutical operations in the United States. Genentech’s Research and Early Development section operates as an independent center within Roche. Genentech was founded in 1976 by [Robert Swanson](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/robert-a-swanson) and [Herbert Boyer](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/herbert-w-boyer). It is headquartered in South San Francisco, C.A.

4SC Discovery GmbH provides research and development services in biology. The company is headquartered in Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.

Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. In 2018, the company's largest selling product lines were Neulasta, an immunostimulator used to prevent infections in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy and Enbrel, a tumor necrosis factor blocker used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. Other products include Epogen, Aranesp, Sensipar/Mimpara, Nplate, Vectibix, Prolia and XGEVA.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biotechnology company, which engages in the business of discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing small molecule drugs for patients with serious diseases. The firm focuses on development and commercializing therapies for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, infectious diseases including viral infections such as influenza and bacterial infections, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and neurological disorders including pain and multiple sclerosis. The company was founded by Joshua S. Boger in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

InterMune is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases. In pulmonology, they are focused on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease. Pirfenidone, the only medicine approved for IPF anywhere in the world, is approved for marketing by InterMune in the EU as Esbriet® and is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial to support regulatory registration in the United States. InterMune's research programs are focused on the discovery of targeted, small-molecule therapeutics and biomarkers to treat and monitor serious pulmonary and fibrotic diseases.

Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. is the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Yeda holds an exclusive agreement with the Weizmann Institute to commercialize the unique intellectual property developed by the scientists. The income generated serves to support further basic research and science education. - Identify and assess research projects with commercial potential. - Protect the intellectual property of the Institute and its scientists. - Create business relationships and license the Institute’s inventions and technologies to the industry. - Channel funding from industry to research projects. For further information please contact Tamir Huberman, CIO and Head of Marketing

Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc. manufactures food and cosmetic products. It also makes health food ingredients, functional dyes, and reagents. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Okayamashi, Japan.

Immunovative Therapies is a biopharmaceutical company with financial support of the Israel Office of the Chief Scientist. ITL is a graduate of the Misgav Venture Accelerator, a member of the world renown Israel technological incubator program. The company was the Misgav Venture Accelerator's candidate for the prize for the outstanding incubator project of 2006, awarded by the Office of the Chief Scientist. They specialize in the development of novel immunotherapy drug products that incorporate living immune cells as the active ingredients for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease.

Faes Farma SA operates as a pharmaceutical company. It engages in manufacturing and sale of chemical and pharmaceutical products, as well as the acquisition, purchase, sale, investment, holding, administration, management, negotiation and leasing of companies, of transferable and immovable securities, patents, trademarks and registrations and social participations. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Leioa, Spain.

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH manufactures pharmaceutical prodcuts. It offers human and animal health products. The company was founded by Albert Boehringer in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany.

Nogra Pharma Ltd. operates as a pharmaceutical company. It offers brand which include Lialda and Mezavant. The firm focuses on the treatment of ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

NeoStem Oncology LLC is focused on the production and supply of clinically relevant embryonic stem cell derived human cell populations.\nFounded in 2005, the mission of NeoStem Oncology is to catalyze the efficient development of human therapies based on human embryonic stem cells.\nThe key to this goal is the production and supply of clinically relevant human cell populations using a scalable, efficient and highly reproducible process. They generate human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines, expand them to clinically and commercially useful numbers, and differentiate them at extremely high purity using fully-defined, proprietary media and GMP processes that are FDA compliant from day one. And they do this at a fraction of the cost of conventional cell manufacturing.\nAs a result, the company can economically supply large quantities of high purity cells for its own clinical development pipeline in specific application areas. It can also supply high purity, fully characterized, clinically relevant human cell populations to companies or other institutions for development of therapies, efficacy screening or creation of toxicity profiles for candidate drugs, or experimental research.\nNeoStem Oncology LLC is a privately held Delaware Corporation with headquarters and research facilities in Irvine, CA.

CEL-SCI Corp. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the research, development, and manufacture of investigational immunotherapy products for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Its product pipeline includes Multikine and Ligand Epitope Presentation System (LEAPS). Multikine is an investigational immunotherapy for the potential treatment of head and neck cancers. LEAPS is categorized into LEAPS-H1N1-DC, a product candidate for the treatment of pandemic influenza for hospitalized patients and CEL-2000 and CEL-4000, which are vaccine candidates for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The company was founded by Maximilian de Clara on March 22, 1983 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Immunic AG develops pharmaceuticals in the immunology space. The firm offers immune modulators to block TH17-and TH1-mediated immune and autoimmune responses. The company was founded by Andreas Muhler and Manfred Groppel in April 2016 and is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd (武田薬品工業株式会社 Takeda Yakuhin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is the largest pharmaceutical company in Asia and one of the top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world by revenue (top 10 following merger with Shire). The company has over 30,000 employees worldwide and achieved 16.2 billion USD in revenue during the 2012 fiscal year. The company is focused on metabolic disorders, gastroenterology, neurology, inflammation, as well as oncology through its independent subsidiary, Takeda Oncology. Its headquarters is located in Chuo-ku, Osaka, and it has an office in Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo. In January 2012, Fortune Magazine ranked the Takeda Oncology Company as one of the 100 best companies to work for in the United States.

Develops and manufactures drugs related to immunology, neurobiology and oncology

Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale provides medical services. The firm specializes in biomedical research and public health research. The company is headquartered in Paris, Cedex, France.