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GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and helping physicians tailor treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of products and services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases.
GE Healthcare is a supplier to the stem cell therapy and blood banking markets. We provide a generic automated and integrated processing and storage solution to the fast growing cord blood market as well as reagents for research and cell therapy clinical R&D. Our leading brands include Ficoll-Paque™ PREMIUM, AXP™ AutoXpress Platform and BioArchive® System.
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BD Medical – Pharmaceutical Systems is a worldwide leader of high-quality, clinically proven prefillable parenteral drug delivery systems. We are committed to earn our customer’s confidence by providing the most innovative drug delivery technologies, utilizing global manufacturing and the highest level of technical expertise.
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Pall’s leading edge filtration, separation and purification technologies and services play an essential and pivotal role in the life sciences / biopharmaceutical industry, which has a driving need for speed to market, product reliability and economics.
Pall’s filtration products include unique ultrafiltration and microfiltration membranes and a broad line of depth filters, cartridge filters (air, vent and sterilizing), tangential flow filtration membranes and devices, as well as a range of single use products and systems.
Pall filtration, chromatography, sampling, monitoring and quality assurance products, together with validation services and extensive technical support help to facilitate the drug discovery and development process and get innovative drugs into the market faster.
Pall products are applicable to laboratory and pilot-scale development, aseptic processing, bioprocessing, fermentation and downstream processing.
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Crucell N.V. is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on research, development, production and marketing of vaccines, proteins and antibodies that prevent and treat infectious diseases. Its vaccines are sold in public and private markets worldwide. Crucell's core portfolio includes a vaccine against hepatitis B, a fully-liquid vaccine against five important childhood diseases and a virosome-adjuvanted vaccine against influenza. Crucell also markets travel vaccines, such as the only oral anti-typhoid vaccine, an oral cholera vaccine and the only aluminum-free hepatitis A vaccine on the market. Crucell is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands, with subsidiaries in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Korea and the US. The company employs over a 1000 people. www.crucell.com.
Synco BioPartners is one of Europes leading Contract Manufacturing Organisations. Focusing exclusively on Biopharmaceuticals and Vaccines, Synco offers a complete range of manufacturing services including fermentation development, downstream process development, assay development and CGMP manufacture for Phase I-III clinical trials and market supply. Synco also offers a filling and lyophilization service, again to CGMP. Synco has an extensive track record of succesful manufacturing project, and is currently engaged in the manufacture of APIs for clinical trials and for European market supply.
CSL Biotherapies is a subsidiary of CSL Limited which operates one of the world's largest flu vaccine manufacturing facilities for supply to global markets. CSL Limited has more than 80 years of experience in the development and manufacture of vaccines, with 40 years in flu vaccines. The company's focus on products for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases allowed to play a key role in the collaborative work that delivered the world 's first vaccine against cervical cancer . In 2008, CSL Limited received approval by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration for the first Pandemic Flu vaccine in Australia.
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The Health Protection Agency's role is to provide an integrated approach to protecting UK public health through the provision of support and advice to the NHS, local authorities, emergency services, other Arms Length Bodies, the Department of Health and the Devolved Administrations. The Agency was established as a special health authority (SpHA) in 2003.
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Millipore (NYSE: MIL) is a Life Science leader providing cutting-edge technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. As a strategic partner, we collaborate with customers to confront the world's challenging human health issues. From research to development to production, our scientific expertise and innovative solutions help customers tackle their most complex problems and achieve their goals. Millipore Corporation is an S&P 500 company with more than 6,100 employees in 47 countries worldwide.
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