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Adolor Corporation (Nasdaq: ADLR),
Exton, PA, is a pharmaceutical company developing novel products for the treatment of pain and the side effects that are caused by pain
treatments.
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Amerifit
Nutrition Inc., Bloomfield, CT, is a pioneer in the development of
functional ingredients, foods and dietary supplements based on sound nutritional
science. Amerifit Nutrition's leading branded product is Estroven, a nutritional
supplement that helps maintain a woman's balance naturally.
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Amgen, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN),
Thousand Oaks, CA, is a biopharmaceutical company that produces therapeutic
proteins.
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Biosite,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BSTE),
San Diego, CA, develops and markets rapid disposable immunodiagnostic products
for point-of-care testing.
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Cambridge Antibody
Technology Group, plc (Nasdaq: CATG),
Cambridge, England, is a biopharmaceutical company that produces therapeutic
antibodies.
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Cephalon, Inc.
(Nasdaq: CEPH),
Malvern, PA, is a pharmaceutical company targeting neurological
disorders.
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Corixa Corporation
(Nasdaq: CRXA),
Seattle, WA, produces vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases.
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Genset, S.A.
(NYSE: SRA),
Evry, France, is a genomics company. Genset became public in 1996 and was
acquired by Serono in June 2002.
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Gryphon
Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, develops
polymer-modified proteins made by total chemical synthesis, rather than
biological methods. Gryphon's unique technology now provides rapid access to
premium quality proteins and therapeutics.
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IDEC Pharmaceuticals
Corp. (Nasdaq: BIIB),
San Diego, CA, produces therapeutic antibodies. IDEC merged with Biogen in
November 2003.
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Inhale Therapeutic
Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: NKTR),
San Carlos, CA, develops inhalation delivery technology for drugs. Inhale
changed its name in January 2003 to Nektar Therapeutics.
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LeukoSite,
Inc., Cambridge, MA, is biotechnology
company developing proprietary drugs designed to block disease-promoting actions
of white blood cells. LeukoSite went public in 1997 and was acquired by
Millennium Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: MLNM)
in 1999.
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Lexicon Genetics,
Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXG),
Houston, TX, is a genomics company producing knockout mice and identifying novel
human genes.
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Memory
Pharmaceuticals Corp., Montvale, NJ, is a biopharmaceutical
company focused on the development of innovative drug candidates for the
treatment of central nervous system, or CNS, conditions that exhibit significant
impairment of memory and other cognitive functions.
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POINT
Biomedical Corporation, San Carlos, CA, is a pharmaceutical company
focused on technologies for the delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic agents.
POINT's core technology is based upon an ultrasonically responsive two-layer,
biodegradable microsphere or biSphere.
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Santarus,
Inc., San Diego, CA, is a specialty pharmaceutical company
focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing products for the prevention
and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders.
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Sepracor, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEPR),
Marlborough, MA, is a pharmaceutical company that uses chiral separations to
produce therapeutic compounds.
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Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM),
San Diego, CA, uses mass spectroscopy for determination of nucleic acid
sequences. Its IPO was completed in January 2000.
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Sphinx
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Durham, NC, produced
kinase inhibitors as therapeutics and developed a novel combinatorial chemistry
system. The private company was acquired by Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY).
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Therion
Biologics Corporation, Cambrige, MA, develops therapeutic
vaccines for cancer and preventive vaccines for AIDS. The Company has two lead
programs involving multiple clinical trials.
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Versicor, Inc. (Nasdaq: MICU),
Fremont, CA, is a pharmaceutical company developing
anti-infectives. Versicor merged with Biosearch Italia SpA and
changed its name to Vicuron Pharmaceuticals in March 2003.
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Alere Medical
Incorporated, Reno, NV, provides technology that gives health care
providers timely access to the objective clinical information needed to more
effectively manage patients with congestive heart failure.
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Allscripts
Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX), Chicago, IL, is the leading provider of clinical
software and information solutions for more than 20,000 physicians across the
country.. The initial investment was made in Physician Dispensing Systems, Inc.,
which was acquired by Allscripts in 1995.
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Ciphergen BioSystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: CIPH),
Fremont, CA, develops, manufactures and markets a family of ProteinChip Systems
and services for clinical, research and process proteomics
applications.
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GMIS
Inc., Great Valley, PA, developed
physicians' office software for claims management; the company went public and
was sold to HBOC, which was subsequently acquired by McKesson (NYSE: MCK).
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Banyan Systems,
Inc. , Westborough, MA, is a market leader in
delivering e-business services based on leading edge Internet and directory
technology. The company has changed its name to ePresence (Nasdaq: EPRE).
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IntraLinks,
Inc., New York, NY, is a leading provider of digital workspaces, connecting business communities and accelerating the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants.
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Itron, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITRI),
Spokane, WA, has grown to be a leading global provider of data acquisition and
wireless communication solutions for collecting and analyzing electric, gas, and
water usage data.
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MicroMass
Communications, Inc., Cary, NC, is a full service agency that provides relationship marketing services and brand loyalty programs to the healthcare vertical.
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Multex.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MLTX),
New York, NY, is a global provider of investment information and technology
solutions for the financial services industry. Multex was purchased by Reuters
(Nasdaq: RTRSY) in
February 2003.
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Netegrity,
Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), Waltham, MA, is a provider of security
software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to
enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk
out.
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PowerCenter Systems,
Inc., Uniondale, NY, developed
materials management software for hospitals and was acquired by Eclipsys Corp.
(Nasdaq: ECLP) in 1999.
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Read-Rite
Corporation, Milpitas, CA, is one of the
world's leading manufacturers of magnetic recording heads, head gimbal
assemblies and head stack assemblies for disk and tape drives. Read-Rite went
public and was subsequently acquired by Western Digital in 2003.
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SYSTECH
International, Inc.,
Cranbury, NJ, develops and markets software for packaging operations in the
pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries.
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WiseWire, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, finds, prioritizes and organizes relevant content from the Internet into thousands of pre-defined hierarchical directories. WiseWire was acquired by Lycos
(Nasdaq: TRLY)
in 1998
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