Biotechnology Web Sites: List "D" Directory
Biotechnology Web Site List / Directory. Part IV
Nature Biotechnology Directory
The Nature Biotechnology Directory is a global information resource listing over 9,000 organizations, product and service providers in the biotechnology industry. Entries display details about each organization, including organization name, address, telephone and fax number, e-mail and web addresses.
http://guide.nature.com/
Neugenesis Corporation
Neugenesis Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on generating better biotherapeutics cost-effectively. To this end, Neugenesis has developed technology that has substantial value in discovering, improving, and producing complex proteins, especially heteromeric proteins. The company's work with the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa has resulted in significant advances in two important areas of biotechnology research, recombinant protein production and combinatorial biology.
http://www.neugenesis.com/
New Zealand Biotechnology Association
The Association was established to improve knowledge of biotechnology in New Zealand; to represent the interests of those concerned with biotechnology in New Zealand; to provide a forum for interaction among the disciplines involved in biotechnology; and to foster an environment conducive to the growth of biotechnology-based industries in New Zealand.
http://www.biotech.org.nz/
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
The Center's mission is to provide long-term economic benefit to North Carolina through support of biotechnology research, development and commercialization statewide. It works toward that mission by assisting business, education, and science. The Center is active at all points in the movement of biotechnology from ideas to marketable products. It works with academic researchers, entrepreneurs and company scientists, educators, governmental policy-makers and all other parties involved in building a thriving biotechnology industry.
http://www.ncbiotech.org/
Northern Bioidentification Service Ltd.
Northern Bioidentification Service Ltd. is a biotechnology company providing DNA analysis techniques to fish and wildlife conservation managers. The company works with animal conservation managers and researchers to protect and improve natural stocks of fish and wildlife. Through the use of high-quality DNA typing and population genetic analysis, the company aims to provide powerful and cost-effective tools used in conservation management.
http://www.mts.net/~northern/
NRC Biotechnology Research Institute
BRI is located in Montr?al, Canada, and maintains advanced facilities to carry out collaborative research projects in molecular biology and biochemical engineering, including: radiocrystallography equipment, an ion spray mass spectrometer, NMR spectrometers, computer-assisted molecular design, confocal light scanning microscopy system, analytical chemistry laboratory (for the environmental sector), a 1,500 m? bioprocess facility with fermenters ranging in size from 3.5 L to 1,500 L, and 350 m? of clean rooms for separation and purification (class 10,000 and 100,000). BRI concentrates its resources on collaborative projects with Canadian industry, particularly companies working in the pharmaceutical and resource sectors.
http://www.bri.nrc.ca/
NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute
The mission of the Plant Biotechnology Institute is to perform, assist and promote strategic research in plant biotechnology, to improve and diversify Canadian industry, and to strengthen Canada’s competitive position in the global economy by fostering an entrepreneurial culture. The Institute performs strategic research in key areas of plant biotechnology while maintaining a world-class research calibre; ensures industrial relevance of its research programs; nurtures innovation through efficient transfer of new biotechnologies and their products to commercialization; provides infrastructure and expertise; informs and transfers discoveries in plant biotechnology to all interested parties in Canada; and trains and develops highly qualified personnel in selected areas of plant biotechnology.
http://www.pbi.nrc.ca/
Onyvax Limited
Onyvax is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of cancer therapies that employ the selectivity and power of the immune system to seek and destroy tumor cells.
http://www.onyvax.com/
Osmetech
Osmetech is dedicated to the rapid and inexpensive detection of micro-organisms such as infectious bacteria, fungi and moulds through the application of multi-sensor array technology.
http://www.aromascan.com/
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology
Established to be an independent and objective source of credible information on agricultural biotechnology for the public, media and policymakers, the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology is funded through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the University of Richmond. The Initiative advocates neither for, nor against, agricultural biotechnology but instead is committed to providing information and encouraging debate and dialogue so that consumers and policymakers can make their own informed decisions. (Posted October 2001.)
http://pewagbiotech.org/
Phytera, Inc.
Phytera, Inc. is an international biotechnology company that applies the genetic and chemical diversity of natural species to the discovery of new pharmaceutical, agricultural and other products. Phytera has developed proprietary cell culture technologies for plant species (ExPAND®) and marine microbes (µMARINE®) that provide the Company with unique and greatly expanded access to the genetic and chemical diversity of each species. To date, the Company has assembled the largest library of plant cells in culture in the world and also has an extensive library of marine microbial cultures. The ExPAND® and µMARINE® technologies involve extensive manipulation of the cell cultures to simulate many different environments. This combinatorial biology approach turns on silent genes in the cultured cells and results in the expression of greatly expanded chemical diversity. Phytera captures the genes and expanded chemical diversity in its proprietary databases and libraries.
http://www.phytera.com/
Princeton Separations, Inc. (PSI)
PSI is a privately-owned, manufacturing-based biotechnology company specializing in molecular separations. PSI manufactures various successful products including: CENTRI·SEPTM spin columns, used in DNA sequencing; PANAGEL® high-resolution electrophoresis systems, used in analysis of proteins in human body fluids; CENTRI·SPINTM columns, used in the purification of a variety of biomolecules (DNA, proteins and carbohydrates) and PSI CLONE Plasmid Prep kit for purification of plasmid DNA.
http://www.prinsep.com/
Progen Industries Limited
Progen Industries Limited is an Australian biotechnology company specialising in the manufacture and supply of molecular biology reagents and kits. Involved in pharmaceutical research and development, Progen recently commenced its second Phase I clinical trial with its lead compound (PI-88) for treatment of solid tumors. Progen is also involved in the development of a number of other potential biopharmaceuticals.
http://progen.com.au/
Recombinant Capital (ReCap)
The purpose of the ReCap website is to provide a resource to biotechnology executives who are involved with financing, business development, licensing and other strategic planning essential to the development and commercialization of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices.
http://www.recap.com/
Reliable Biopharmaceutical Corporation
Reliable Biopharmaceutical Corporation is a manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, nucleic acids, biochemicals, and enzymes for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company isolates deoxynucleosides and deoxynucleotides from Salmon DNA. The company's nucleotides and nucleosides are of the highest purity available. They also synthesize DMT protected 2'O methyl ribonucleosides and deoxynucleosides. After these protected deoxy and ribo nucleosides are converted to phosphoramidite derivatives, they can be incorporated into the new antisense therapeutic and diagnostic compounds.
http://www.reliablebiopharm.com/
Q-One Biotech
Q-One Biotech is a world-renowned authority in providing specialist safety testing and process validation services, cGMP contract manufacturing of cell banks, vaccines and gene therapy products to the biopharmaceutical industry. Q-One operates in full compliance with GMP and GLP standards.
http://www.q-one.com/
Quebec Bio-Industries Association
The Quebec Bio-Industries Association, which counts close to 200 innovative companies as members, is committed to supporting the growth and vitality of Quebec’s biotechnology companies. The QBA's member companies are active in research and manufacturing of therapeutic and diagnostic products, vaccines and biological products of human and animal health; in research and primary production in the areas of agriculture, aquaculture, secondary processing and beverages; and in research and production in the waste treatment, biomass processing, environmental rehabilitation, mining and peat bog sectors.
http://www.aqb.qc.ca/
Quebec Biotechnology Innovation Centre (QBIC)
QBIC is the first business incubator specializing in biotechnology to emerge in Qu?bec. This non-profit organization offers researcher-entrepreneurs in Qu?bec and elsewhere, an environment conducive to their research and development activities, while promoting the acquisition and transfer of management skills. The goal of the QBIC is to promote the development of young innovative companies working in the field of biotechnology applied to the health, environment, agri-food and forestry sectors. To do this, the QBIC makes specialized equipment infrastructures available to these companies and offers them business services and counseling in line with their needs. By supporting the start-up of companies in this new economic sector, the QBIC and its partners are contributing to job creation in Qu?bec and the emergence of a generation of entrepreneurs in the biotechnology sector.
http://www.cqib.org/indexe.htm
Seikagaku Corporation
Seikagaku Corporation has evolved into a major contributor in the biotech industry specializing in pharmaceutical products such as ARTZ®, research biological and diagnostics such as Endospecy®, as well as pursuing R&D efforts in developing technologies based on Glycoconjugates.
http://www.seikagaku.com/
Senetek PLC
Senetek PLC is a science-driven biotechnology company that develops, manufactures and markets proprietary solutions for aging-related healthcare problems. Senetek business divisions include three separate, distinct and significant opportunities in biopharmaceuticals, autoinjectable drug delivery systems, and cosmeceuticals.
http://www.senetekplc.com/
Sunnyday Environmental & Bio-Tech Services Ltd.
While Sunnyday has the staff, expertise and experience to handle a wide variety of projects, their specialty is the design and construction of complete utility systems for pharmaceutical research labs and cGMP pilot plant facilities which demands specific knowledge with regard to cGMP and FDA requirements. The ultimate goal is not only high performance, but also validation of utility systems. All the necessary equipment, instrumentation and control, material and labor are supplied to meet the needs of the company's projects. For pure steam/WFI systems the company performs the orbital stainless steel welding using computer controlled automatic equipment to secure consistent quality.
http://www.sunnyday-biotech.com/index.html
Techniclone Corporation
Techniclone Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel cancer therapeutics in two principal areas: 1) direct tumor targeting agents for the treatment of refractory malignant lymphomas and 2) collateral indirect targeting agents for the treatment of solid tumors.
http://www.techniclone.com/
Technology to Feed the World
U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Web Extra
An international working group of seven science academies--Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences--issued a white paper on July 11, 2000, titled Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture, which details ways agricultural biotechnology can help alleviate hunger and poverty in the Third World. This NAS web extra links to the paper and to additional information about biotechnology. (Posted July 2000.)
http://www.nationalacademies.org/webextra/crops/
Toronto Biotechnology Initiative (TBI)
The TBI is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the growth of biotechnology in Toronto and the surrounding region. While biopharmaceuticals and diagnostics are core strengths of this community, it also has broad research capability and growing commercial activity in agri-food biotechnology as well as the emerging resource and environmental biotech industries.
http://www.torontobiotech.org/
Transgenomic, Inc.
Transgenomic, Inc. is a global company with a core biotechnology business that includes principal technologies for DNA/RNA and analysis and purification. This diverse technology base enables world-class research with technology and instrumentation that allows scientists to get the answers they seek faster and with greater confidence. Principal application areas include: genetic mutation screening and detection, plus new paths in microbial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, forensic, plant and animal research.
http://www.transgenomic.com/
University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center
The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center was established to coordinate the vigorous development of biotechnology on the UW-Madison campus. As the UWBC grew, a service facilities was established to provide excellent shared resources for the UW-Madison, state and national biotechnology research communities. Outreach functions were developed, including technology transfer, biotechnology education for the public, and the gathering and dissemination of information through the Center's newsletter, Wisconsin BioIssues, and through the Internet. Multidisciplinary applied research programs were started (including biopulping, bioremediation, and the production of industrial enzyme in transgenic alfalfa) that were supported by federal and state grants and industrial consortia.
http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/
Vical Incorporated
Vical develops biopharmaceutical products based on patented naked DNA gene transfer technologies for the prevention and treatment of life-threatening diseases. The company currently focuses its development on innovative cancer therapies designed to induce an immune response against cancer cells without causing serious side effects.
http://www.vical.com/
Virginia BioTechnology Research Park
The Virginia BioTechnology Research Park is a technology center dedicated to fostering development of Virginia's biosciences industry through technology transfer, new business formation, expansion of existing businesses, and business attraction.
http://www.vabiotech.com/
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology
This directory contains URLs of companies, research institutes, universities, sources of information and other directories specific to biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and related fields. It places emphasis on product development and the delivery of products and services.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/
Xencor™
Xencor™ is a biotechnology company that is commercializing Protein Design Automation™ (PDA), a proprietary research platform for protein design. PDA builds on recent groundbreaking advances in computer capabilities and computational chemistry methods to design protein and peptide variants, as well as completely unique protein sequences. PDA produces novel proteins that preserve target functions while modifying selected chemical and biological properties. PDA can rapidly examine vastly more protein sequences than is possible for methods based on genetic screening and selection, resulting in a higher success rate and access to a wider range of novel protein properties.
http://www.xencor.com/
ZymeTx, Inc.
ZymeTx is an emerging biotechnology company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of unique products for the diagnosis and treatment of viral diseases. The scientific foundation for its business is based upon the role of enzymes in the process of viral infection. ViraZyme, its core technology, exploits the subtle structural differences and characteristics of enzymes to create viral diagnostic and therapeutic products.
http://www.zymetx.com/
