Can Somebody Provide Me A List Of Pharmaceutical Companies & Biotech Companies Located In Southern California?

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:39:18 +0000

Off the top of my head: AMGN, AGN, VRX

What Is The Difference Between Biotech And A Pharmaceutical Company?

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:36:45 +0000

Given that the pharmaceutical industry has been around a while, most people have a pretty firm grasp of what drug companies do. They manufacture and market the myriad medications we find both behind and over the pharmacist’s counter.
What then, is biotechnology, which also works to develop new drugs? What is the difference between biotech and traditional drug companies?
Not much anymore, and the lines of distinction will continue to blur, say those in the field.
“It’s a very complicated matrix right now, where it wasn’t in the past,” says Phyllis Gardner, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University and former vice president of Alva Corp., one of the very first biotech companies. “There is no clear line, but there are some distinguishing features.”
Comparing biotech companies to pharmaceutical companies, she says, can be done two ways: as a business model and as a field of research.
Pharmaceutical companies traditionally employed what Ms. Gardner calls “empirical screening” to develop drugs. “They would take natural compounds with a known physiological side effect, like reducing blood pressure, and they would screen for that effect,” she says.
Chris Littlehales, director of communications for Burrill and Co., an investment firm that focuses on the biotech industry, likens pharma to throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
“The traditional way of making a drug was like analytical chemistry,” she says.
For instance, she says, everyone knows that aspirin exists and it reduces fever and aches. But it also causes stomach problems in some people. So you want to make something that has the same benefits, without the side effects.
“If you’re a medicinal chemist you will analyze it and figure out what part of aspirin causes the problem,” Ms. Littlehales says. “So you fool around and take this out and put this in, and you have to keep testing every little variation against the target. Sooner or later you hit on something.”
Biotechnology, on the other hand, is defined by Informagen Inc., an online biotech information resource, as using “genetic engineering” technology in its research. Ms. Gardner says biotech was originally based around molecules, called monoclonal antibodies, which mimicked certain proteins or other molecules to target a specific cell area.
This type of research began around 1972, when Stanford’s Paul Berg and Stanley Cohen, and Herbert Boyer of the University of California at San Francisco were the first to successfully splice genes from viruses to create molecules of recombinant DNA.
Ms. Littlehales says genetic engineering was touted to be the cure for just about every disease. Subsequent years saw an explosion of biotech companies, hoping to capitalize on the technology.
“It used to be the premise that biotech companies were young, emerging companies that developed products in the biological areas of DNA, RNA, etc. They were young entrepreneurial companies,” says Scott Morrison, who leads the U.S. Life Sciences division at Ernst & Young.

Singapore Biotech And Pharmaceutical Industry?

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:43:43 +0000

I heard that the Singapore government spent millions to build Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry. From what I’ve heard they want to be the leader in this field in Asia.
Anyways, will there be a lot of job opportunities in Singapore if you work in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry?
Also, what is the average salary for someone working in the industry in Singapore?

How Can I Get A List Of Pharmaceutical Or Biotech Companies Doing Clinical Research In Carlsbad, California?

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:41:26 +0000

Look up the website: http://www.biospace.com/hotbed.aspx?Regi…
The website will give you a list of many of the companies in the ‘Biotech Beach’ region, which includes San Diego and Los Angeles, as well as Carlsbad. Personally, I know of Isis Pharmaceuticals and CancerVax in Carlsbad, as well as one or two Contract Research Organizations there (near Legoland).

How Many Biotech Companies Are There In The Pharmaceutical Industry?

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:42:26 +0000

30K but most are mini companies( less than 10 employees)

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Can Somebody Provide Me A List Of Pharmaceutical Companies & Biotech Companies Located In Southern California?

What Is The Difference Between Biotech And A Pharmaceutical Company?

Singapore Biotech And Pharmaceutical Industry?

How Can I Get A List Of Pharmaceutical Or Biotech Companies Doing Clinical Research In Carlsbad, California?

How Many Biotech Companies Are There In The Pharmaceutical Industry?