Abbott Laboratories engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a broad and diversified line of health care products. It operates through the following business segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The Established Pharmaceutical Products segment refers to the international sales of a line of branded generic pharmaceutical products. The Diagnostic Products segment markets diagnostic systems and tests for blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories, and alternate-care testing sites. The Nutritional Products segment caters to the worldwide sales of adult and pediatric nutritional products. The Medical Devices segment includes electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes care products for people with diabetes, as well as neuromodulation devices for the management of chronic pain and movement disorders. The company was founded by Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Sarstedt AG & Co. KG engages in the provision of laboratory and medical equipment. It develops, manufactures and sells equipment and consumables in the medicine and research fields. Its products include offers electric tube strippers, blood gas capillaries, and capillary blood collection. The company was founded by Walter Sarstedt on May 1, 1961 and is headquartered in Nuembrecht, Germany.

MJN U.S. Holdings LLC, part of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc, is a company headquartered in the United States that functions as an investment holding company.

Nestec SA, a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, is a Swiss company located in Vevey. The firm manufactures nutrition food products.

Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA engages in the provision of medical and safety technology products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Europe, Americas, and Africa, Asia & Australia. The company was founded by Johann Heinrich Draeger in 1889 and is headquartered in Luebeck, Germany.

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.

Medela Holding AG, part of Olle Larsson Holding AG, is a Swiss company located in Baar that develops and supplies breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories.

United Pharmaceuticals SAS manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. The firm specializes in the development of health and nutrition products. The company was founded on January 16, 2004 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Air Liquide Sant�� France SA is engaged in supplying medical equipment. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Pantarhei Bioscience BV (PRB) is a limited liability company (Besloten Vennootschap) located in the Netherlands focussing on the development of innovative concepts for woman’s health and hormone-related cancer treatments. PRB has founded a subsidiary company – Pantarhei Oncology (PRO) – to develop treatments for Endocrine Cancer. PRB has developed a product pipeline based on its ability to identify novel medical uses of existing molecules, drugs, hormones, biologicals and combinations thereof in these areas of medicine. The main areas of expertise of PRB are reproductive hormone related treatments and diseases such as contraception and menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). The main areas of expertise of PRO are breast cancer, prostate cancer and ovarian cancer . PRB develops patent protected new treatment concepts up to proof-of-concept (PoC) in the human (phase II). Using existing molecules often provides first evidence of safety. The business model of the Pantarhei companies is based on creating intellectual property (IP) of new concepts ad inventions, in-house project management and outsourcing of all research and development activities. After successful PoC, data and IP are licensed out to a licensee or partner for completion of clinical development (phase III), regulatory approval and sales and marketing by a licensee/partner.

IMMUNSYSTEM was founded in 1983 by Anders Larsson from Uppsala University and Per-Erik Wejåker from the Swedish University of Agriculture. The researchers brought together the disciplines of protein research and animal handling. Much of their work was done in the production and use of antibodies within diagnostics. Over the years, inherent advantages were found with avian antibodies (IgY) and the focus of the company shifted towards using IgY. During the following years, IMMUNSYSTEM developed kits for screening of specific analytes and offered a large selection of purified antibodies for use in diagnostics.

The Institute Pasteur is a private, non-profit foundation. Its mission is to help prevent and treat diseases, mainly those of infectious origin, through research, teaching, and public health initiatives.The Institut Pasteur is a research center of international renown ideally located in the very heart of Paris. Each year the institute hosts a multitude of scientific and medical conferences and meetings as well as events on a variety of themes.

NeoMed, Inc. designs and produces neonatal products for neonatal patients. It offers enteral safety systems, such as oral dispensers, enteral only extension sets, and feeding tubes; polyurethane feeding tubes; solutions for the collection, storage, and feeding of expressed breast milk; and polyethylene drape/wrap products to reduce the risk of cold stress post-delivery and during sterile procedures in the NICU. The company also provides neonatal catheters and kits, including a line of specialty procedure kits, which include catheterization trays, urinary collection kits, and drainage catheters and lumbar puncture kits and needles; products to manage the identification, storage, and verification of breast milk before feeding; and a line of single and dual lumen silicone umbilical catheters. In addition, NeoMed manufactures products under a private label agreement. It offers its products through a network of distributors in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and internationally. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Woodstock, Georgia.

BioRay Biotech is a bio-pharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes biotechnology products. The Company produces probiotics, medicinal fungi, bamboo charcoal particles, and other products. Bioray Biotech also operates related medicine distribution and other businesses.

IDENTIGENE LLC provides DNA identification testing services. It offers the following DNA relationship test including; grandparent, siblingship, maternity, twin, aunt and uncle, and extended family. The company was founded by Caroline Caskey in 1993 and is located in Houston, TX.

Forskarpatent i Syd AB specialises in the commercialisation, through licensing or new venture spinouts, of patentable inventions emanating mainly from Swedish universities. It holds a portfolio of projects in the format of shares in spinouts, partnered (licensed) and still unpartnered assets. It is involves in projects in pharmaceutical, technology, and food categories. The firm is categorized under patent agency operations. The company was founded on January 18, 1996 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Operates as a biotechnology company which develops treatments for immunoregulatory disorders