Top 100 Pharmaceutical Companies in California in 2024

1.Nivagen Pharmaceuticals

Nivagen is focused in three areas of product development: development/co-development, acquisition/in-licensing, and providing sales and marketing services.Nivagen believes that, with its strategic partnership model of global alliances with highly efficient pharmaceutical companies across the globe, the company can provide cost savings to the consumer while creating value for all members of the supply chain. Nivagen is engaged in the development, acquisition and sales of generic prescription drugs and over the counter products for the North American market.

2.AmphStar Pharmaceuticals

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is a publicly traded American speciality pharmaceutical company. It was incorporated in May 2004 and primarily develops, manufactures and sells inhalation and intranasal products.

3.Impris Pharmaceuticals

ImprimisRx has an FDA-Registered 503B Outsourcing Facility dedicated to providing high quality medications to patients and physicians at affordable prices.Imprimis Pharmaceuticals is a relatively young company. It was founded only in 2012. This emerging company loves to hire graduates from San Diego State University, with 13.3% of its employees having attended San Diego State University.

4.Celgene Corporation

Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs. Its major product is Revlimid (lenalidomide), which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and also in certain anemias.

5.GUFF Pharmaceuticals

McGuff Pharmaceuticals provides one of today’s most striking examples of creative management by assuring all current good manufacturing practices (cGMP), quality, and business standards are met in the critical areas of pharmaceutical product development, pharmaceutical manufacturing, clinical trial assistance and finance.

McGuff Pharmaceuticals Inc. management team leads the way in retaining our uncompromising passion for quality pharmaceutical manufacturing, clinical trial support and customer satisfaction. The company apply relationship management principles to customers both internally and externally.

6. Robinson Pharma

Robinson Pharma, Inc. is a full-service contract manufacturer of softgels, tablets, capsules, powders, and liquids for the dietary supplements and personal health care industries. Currently, we have the largest softgel capacity in the United States.The company is a leading vitamin manufacturer with multiple third-party certifications for GMP Compliance. We search the globe for the best raw materials and guarantee that all your products will be manufactured in the USA. Robinson Pharma, Inc. also guarantees one of the shortest order lead times in the industry, as well as packaging services.

7.Teikoku Pharma

Teikoku Pharma USA (TPU), a subsidiary of Teikoku Seiyaku, Japan, is an international specialty pharmaceutical company founded in 1997 in California.  Teikoku Pharma USA develops innovative products in the CNS, Pain Management and Oncology based on its drug delivery platforms.Pursuing clinical development of our product candidates, both independently and in collaborations which allows the company to enhance the capital resources needed to strengthen their core technologies and expand their product pipeline.

8.Handa Pharma

Handa Pharma, Inc. (“Handa”) is a specialty pharmaceutical company in the San Francisco Bay area. Their mission is to leverage our entrepreneurial spirit and technical expertise to develop and commercialize high-quality prescription medications in two complementary areas: proprietary therapeutics that address significant unmet patient needs, and high-barrier-to-entry generic drugs.

Handa’s  business model includes managing all aspects of the product development process through the submission of its Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA) and 505(b)(2) New Drug Applications (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

9.Durect

DURECT is focusing its efforts on medicine areas with significant unmet need, including diseases with no approved treatments like alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

10.Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Crinetics is here for rare endocrine disease patients who are eager to find therapies that provide effective disease control and more simplicity in their lives.Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is a small pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, CA with only 90 employees and an annual revenue of $8.5M.

11.Adamis Pharmaceuticals

Adamis Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company targeting allergy/ pediatric medicine market segments through its Adamis Lab division.Adamis Pharmaceuticals is a small pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, CA with only 102 employees and an annual revenue of $11.4M.

12.Santen Pharmaceuticals

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, specializing in ophthalmology. With its ophthalmic products Santen holds the top share within the Japanese market and is one of the leading ophthalmic companies worldwide, with its products being sold in over 50 countries.

13.Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals is a multibillion dollar specialty pharmaceutical company focused on their mission: Managing Complexity. Improving Lives. The company provide medicines to address unmet patient needs, stemming from 150 years of using their unique strengths, experience and expertise to help improve people’s lives. Discover how our rich history of innovation and patient-centered solutions has helped influence their vision for the future.

14.BAXCOINC Pharmaceuticals

Baxco Pharmaceutical, Inc. have provided their clients with superior private label nutritional supplement products at the most competitive prices while maintaining the industry's highest level of customer service. Their objective has been and always will be to give distributors and brand companies a competitive advantage by maximizing their profits utilizing our services, regardless of product type.

15.Alexza Pharmaceuticals

Alexza Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company developing novel products for the treatment of acute and intermittent conditions.The average employee at Alexza Pharmaceuticals makes $62,929 per year. Pay at Alexza Pharmaceuticals is significantly lower than some of its highest paying competitors, like Emergent BioSolutions, Lantheus Medical Imaging, and Pharma Services Intermediate Holding, which pay $76,925, $75,378, and $73,594, respectively.

16.Amerisource Bergen

At AmerisourceBergen, the company's purpose means Amerisource Bergen understand that their duty as a company extends beyond the services we provide, the customers they serve, the team members they employ, and the communities where they live and work.It means they understand theyir moral obligation to improve the wellbeing of human and animal populations by expanding access to quality healthcare, operating sustainably, and upholding the highest standards of safety and quality."

17.ReechPharma

ReechPharma specialize in customized formulation solutions to address each drug's unique physicochemical, biopharmaceutical, IP and regulatory challenges.They are a formulation development company located in San Francisco Bay Area, and have been supporting Pharma/biopharma companies with their discovery, preclinical, clinical and life cycle management products."

18.Acelrx Pharmaceuticals

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute pain.AcelRx Pharmaceuticals is a small pharmaceutical company based in California with only 43 employees and an annual revenue of $15.6M.

19.Zosano Pharma

Zosano Pharma is an emerging CNS company focusing on providing rapid symptom relief to patients, using known therapeutics with well-established safety and efficacy.Founded in 2006, Zosano Pharma is an established company that loves to hire graduates from University of California, Santa Cruz, with 14.3% of its employees having attended University of California, Santa Cruz.

20.Cure Pharmaceuticals

Cure Pharma is specialize in making oral thin films (strips) and liquid pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. Some of their products are proprietary and will have significant impact on human health. CURE Pharmaceutical is a small pharmaceutical company based in California with only 30 employees and an annual revenue of $1.6M."

21.Samason Pharmaceuticals

Samson Pharmaceutical, Inc.(SPI) is an FDA registered facility doing business as an S. Corp in the City of Commerce (Los Angeles). 37,000 sq.ft. manufacturing and warehouse, complies with FDA 21CFR 210-211-111, OTC, supplements, and cosmetics.They cover all aspects of product making, from research and development, compounding, filling, packaging, testing, label design and sourcing, bottle sourcing, and other relevant components until they deliver customers finished approved product.

22.PreScriptt Pharmaceuticals

PreScript Pharmaceuticals prepare and package medications and pharmaceuticals for dispensing; now with custom packaging and labeling for all of customers medication and pharmaceutical packaging needs.Providing medications to patients has never been easier. Medications are pre-packaged into sealed, child resistant, tamper evident containers and pre-labeled to customers specifications in a truly ready-to-dispense format. Reduce overhead and virtually eliminate the source of most dispensing errors, packaging and labeling."

23.Emery Pharma

Emery Pharma is a full-service contract research laboratory, specializing in microbiology, cell biology, medicinal chemistry, and bioanalytical services.

24.AIE Pharma

AIE provides standard Vitamin Packaging in Bottles all shapes, sizes and colors. The automated packaging lines ensure that customers' product is being bottled accurately and efficiently. They utilize multiple local suppliers of components to ensure quick deliveries and competitive pricing. AIE utilizes Quality Control to continually monitor the packaging operations to ensure your requirements are met every time.

Blister Packaging is just one of the many packaging options offering by AIE. Blister Packs provide extra protection for tablets, capsules and softgels as they are individually sealed in their own compartment providing a pharmaceutical look and feel.

25.Formurex

Formurexis a Pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with a mission to provide the best services in Preformulation, Formulation Development, Analytical, Stability and GMP Manufacturing. Our company is located in Stockton, California, within driving distance from all four major airports in northern California. Formurex have delivered hundreds of contract projects since 2006 and formulated a wide range of formulations, including insoluble compounds and various controlled substances. Our GMP facility is suitable for supplying early-stage clinical trial materials.

26.Vivera Pharmaceuticals

Vivera is an innovative, science-driven pharmaceutical company focused on novel therapies for a variety of indications. In addition to its pharmaceutical, medical device, advanced diagnostics, medical supplies, medical technologies, and neurosciences, the Company has global exclusivity to license the patented and patent-pending TABMELT sublingual drug-delivery system for the pharmaceutical use of therapeutic compounds

27.Avanir Pharmaceuticals

Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc. develops, acquires, and markets treatments for central nervous system disorders, inflammation, and infectious diseases. The Company develops treatments for pseudobulbar affect, diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, and other conditions.

28.Ground Zerous

Ground Zero Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (GZP) (and, later, its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, Ground Zero Pharmaceuticals, Pty Ltd.) was established as an integrated consulting firm. We now have offices in Irvine, California, USA; Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with associates throughout the US, Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden.

GZP provides its clients with expert strategic and tactical guidance – with an eye toward the global regulatory gold standard, the US FDA – to help develop their products, build their firms, set the appropriate priorities from their pipelines, obtain marketing approvals and pursue postmarketing activities.

29.NapaJen Pharma

NapaJen Pharma aims to become a global pharmaceutical company with its unique nucleic acid technology. NapaJen Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company conducting clinical research on innovative nucleic acid drugs. For the first time, the company have solved the problem of drug delivery, which was the biggest hurdle in the development of nucleic acid drugs, and made it possible to deliver nucleic acid drugs to targeted immune cells.

30.Corvus Pharma

Corvus Pharmaceuticals is an immunology focused biopharmaceutical company developing drugs and antibodies that target the most critical cellular elements of the immune system. Their seasoned team of biopharma industry leaders are dedicated to developing new medicines for patients in need. Their successful track record of discovering, developing and commercializing innovative therapies for patients with serious diseases includes inventors and scientists who developed the anti-cancer medicines, Rituxan (rituximab), Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Zelboraf (vemurafenib).

31.Corcept Therapeutics Inc.

Corcept Therapeutics Inc. is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, psychiatric and oncologic disorders. Corcept has focused on the adverse effects of excess cortisol, studying new compounds that may mitigate those effects.

32.California Pharmaceuticals

California Pharmaceuticals manufactures custom solutions to benefit patients who are unable to ingest traditional solid oral dosage forms such as tablets or capsules. Their kits provide a fast, accurate, and convenient solution to medical professionals, as all components are pre-measured. This allows appropriately licensed medical professionals to create a medication tailored to the specialized needs of an individual patient, in response to a physician’s prescription.

33.Phoenix Pharmaceuticals

Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides peptide products. The Company offers peptides, assay kits, antibodies, kit supplies, and magnetic beads products, as well as stable isotope labeling, antibody production, and peptide level determination services. Phoenix Pharmaceuticals serves products to researchers worldwide.

34.Latitude Pharma

LATITUDE’s focus is on the special challenges of formulation development for compounds that are highly insoluble, highly unstable, and/or have poor bioavailability. This focus has made LATITUDE a specialist with the experience and track record to tackle the toughest formulation challenges for problematic drug candidates. LATITUDE is fully capable of handling controlled substances.

LATITUDE also develops state-of-the-art drug delivery systems as proprietary platform formulation technologies, including their PG Depot™ injectable depots and our Nano-E™ nano-emulsions. Latitude makes these technologies available to our clients to improve the efficacy, safety, and overall therapeutic value, as well as establish new intellectual property, for their drug compounds."

35.IACTA Pharmaceuticals

IACTA Pharmaceuticals is an innovative ophthalmic company developing a portfolio of novel assets in large ocular markets, beginning with ocular pain and dry eye disease

IACTA’s leadership brings extensive experience with a history of success in ophthalmology, R&D execution, and pharmaceutical startups. Their team is dedicated to bringing the best ophthalmic innovations to market.

36.Citragen Pharmaceuticals

CitraGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held, USFDA registered pharmaceutical company. The company develop, manufacture and market high-quality drug products. Theirr pipeline includes, over-the-counter (OTC) products (including cutting-edge first to market branded OTC products), prescription generics (ANDA), and new drug products (NDA). CitraGen was founded and incorporated in 2014 by three experienced pharmaceutical professionals with about 60 years of combined experience in the fields of pharmaceutical management, research, academic, retail and commercial operations. This leadership team provides a strong foundation and rich resource to the growth of CitraGen.

37.CustoPharm

In 2015, CustoPharm partnered with Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor with extensive pharmaceutical expertise, to accelerate Custopharm’s growth. Since then,we have built a scientific team to develop and commercialize complex sterile injectable pharmaceutical products. With many new products in development and pending approval with FDA they expect to significantly grow our commercial operations as they move forward.

38.M&L Pharmaceuticals

M&L Pharmaceutical is one of the most enterprising businesses in Southern California. Since 1991, M&L Pharmaceutical has been committed to the excellence of its products. They are devoted to manufacturing top of the line vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, and other health products in the United States and around the world. M&L Pharmaceutical has built a solid reputation of honesty and dependability in the industry of encapsulated vitamins.

39.Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Ionis is the leading innovator in RNA-targeted therapeutics and was purposely designed to: Create a better, more efficient drug discovery platform ;Establish a new innovation-centered business model, and Maximize the value of every medicine we create and get it to the people who need it most as quickly and as efficiently as possible

40.Carlsbad Tech

Based in San Diego County, California, Carlsbad Tech began life in 1990 as YSP Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of Taiwan’s leading YungShin Pharmaceutical Co. Two years later, it was renamed Carlsbad Technology, Inc. to reflect its deep sense of identification with the local community. Beginning as a contract manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad Tech has become an industry leader in manufacturing and distribution of generics, supplements, and medical devices. Our facilities were granted cGMP validation in 1998, and the company’s first ANDA was approved in 1998 for Diclofenac Sodium Delayed Release Tablets.

41.Leucadic Pharmaceuticals

Leucadia Pharmaceuticals is a leader in the generic injectables market. The compang invest heavily in new product development while also pursuing partnerships and product acquisitions. Their goals are to provide important new generic injectable products to the acute and specialty markets and to reach communities and conditions that are underserved.

42.Alion Pharmaceuticals

Alion's current focus is on developing a pipeline of small molecules with high potential of being successful in Alzheimer's disease and potentially other Central Nervous System diseases. At the same time, they are developing a powerful new approach to drug development through our One protein target, one modulator, many therapeutic applications. They are also developing a combinatoric approach to develop new therapeutics from previously approved drugs. Since the inception of the company, Alion has clearly demonstrated the "proof of concept" for their approach and programs. In planning Alion's progress, great emphasis has been placed on the mitigation of failure by maintaining several programs in the development of CNS disease therapeutics."

43.Reviva Pharmaceuticals

Reviva Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., (NASDAQ: RVPH) headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and seeks to commercialize next-generation therapeutics for diseases representing significant unmet medical needs and burden to society, patients, and their families. Reviva’s current pipeline focuses on the central nervous system, respiratory, and metabolic diseases. Reviva is using chemical genomics driven technology platform and proprietary chemistry to develop new medicines.

44.Sutro BioPharm

Sutro Biopharma, Inc., located in South San Francisco, is a clinical-stage drug discovery, development and manufacturing company. Using precise protein engineering and rational design, Sutro is advancing next-generation oncology therapeutics. Sutro is dedicated to transforming the lives of cancer patients by creating medicines with improved therapeutic profiles for areas of unmet need. To date, Sutro’s platform has led to ADCs, bispecific antibodies, cytokine-based immuno-oncology therapies, and vaccines directed at precedented targets in clinical indications where the current standard of care is suboptimal.

45.Kite Pharma

Kite Pharma is an American biotechnology company that develops cancer immunotherapy products, with a primary focus on genetically-engineered autologous T cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-T). Based in Santa Monica, California, it is a subsidiary of Gilead Sciences.

46.iIIustris Pharmaceuticals

The Illustris technology platform both enables the delivery of large molecules (of at least 250KD) through tissue structures, and optimizes the absorption of compounds typically delivered through skin, eyes and mucosal (oral or vaginal) surfaces. The ITP facilitates the delivery of active ingredients through tissue structures by deploying decoys, many of which temporarily distract and relax anchors that bind tissue cells together, providing a portal for active ingredients to permeate the targeted site. Based on the clinical objective, Illustris can deploy the appropriate amount of decoy to fully penetrate or partially permeate the targeted tissue structure or organ system.

47.Adamas Pharmaceuticals

Adamas is a fully integrated pharmaceutical company experienced in drug discovery, development, and delivery of treatments for neurological diseases.They are driven by a deep sense of purpose – to make everyday life significantly better for people affected by neurological disorders.

48.Nitto Avesia Pharma

Nitto Avecia Pharma Services is a single source for pharmaceutical development, offering high quality scientific solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.Nitto Avecia Pharma Services has earned its reputation for providing outstanding analytical testing from small molecules to biologics for nearly 30 years. With the addition of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility staffed by some of the industry's most experienced formulation scientists, Avecia Pharma guides its clients and expedites their time to market.

49.Avenzoar Pharmaceuticals

Avenzoar Pharmaceuticals is a start-up pharmaceutical company founded in 2016. Avenzoar is specialized in developing cancer drugs aiming at targeting and inhibiting mechanisms of metastasis and drug resistance.Avenzoar has 3 drugs in the pipeline so far. The lead drug is AP-001 (aka Metavert), which is expected to be tested in pancreatic cancer patients in 2022.

50.NovaBay Pharmaceuticals

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing products for the eye care market. They are currently focused primarily on commercializing prescription Avenova® for managing hygiene of the eyelids and lashes in the United States.

51.Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Crinetics is a pharmaceutical company that develops much-needed therapies for people with rare endocrine diseases. They’re here for patients who are eager to find therapies that provide effective disease control and more simplicity in their lives. The company partner with healthcare practitioners to ensure we’re solving real problems for them.

52.Lake Pharma

LakePharma, Inc is a US-based Biologics CRDMO with operations in California, Massachusetts, and Texas that provides integrated solutions ranging from discovery to engineering, development, and GMP manufacturing. The company specializes in the production and evaluation of antibodies, DNA vectors, viral vectors, cell lines, proteins, and conjugates.  LakePharma has contributed to the development of 200+ therapeutic or diagnostic products and strives to contribute to hundreds more. LakePharma is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified.

53.Captek

CAPTEK Softgel International, Inc. is a leading softgel contract manufacturer (CMO) in the vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS) industry. Championing wellness worldwide since 1996, our team of 730 employees based in California, are driven to produce high-quality nutraceutical products and bulk stock softgel capsules and supplements. The company do this through research & development and innovative delivery systems coupled with rigorous quality assurance and quality control standards.

54.Afecta Pharmaceuticals

Afecta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a patient-centric, physician-driven pharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing new immuno-modulating medicines to treat complex diseases, especially prevalent in women and children.

55.Avecia Pharmaceuticals

 Avecia Pharma Services has earned its reputation for providing outstanding analytical testing from small molecules to biologics for nearly 30 years. With the addition of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility staffed by some of the industry's most experienced formulation scientists, Avecia Pharma guides its clients and expedites their time to market. Avecia Pharma's comprehensive package of GMP services includes parenteral manufacturing (liquid/lyo), formulation development, analytical chemistry, analytical development, biopharmaceutical development, stability storage, structural chemistry, microbiology, and drug delivery device testing."

56.Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

Tarsus is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic candidates to address highly prevalent conditions with limited treatment options. Serving patient needs is our passion; delivering revolutionary treatments is their mission.

57.Irisys

IRISYS provides contract pharmaceutical product development and manufacturing services, specializing in formulation R&D and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) manufacturing of clinical trial materials and specialty pharmaceutical products. Our headquarters, laboratories and state-of- the-art manufacturing facility are located in San Diego, California.  IRISYS’ scientific management includes prominent pharmaceutical product development leaders from industry and academia. Their years of hands-on experience with every facet of pharmaceutical research and development enables the IRISYS team to bring our pharma company clients’ new products to the market quickly and efficiently."

58.DNX Pharmaceuticals

DNX is a biopharmaceutical company developing long-acting therapeutic proteins for the treatment of patients with life-long diseases. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, USA, DNX is pursuing the development of new therapeutic proteins utilizing a 21st century, half-life extension platform technology known as PASylation, which is in-licensed from XL-protein GmbH. XLp has granted DNX a worldwide exclusive license under its patents and know-how related to the PASylation technology to develop and commercialize several PASylated products.

59.Sova Pharmaceuticals

Sova Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company founded in 2010. The company is engaged in the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of both inflammatory and neuropathic pain. These conditions represent large areas of unmet medical need as current therapies often provide unsatisfactory pain relief and few new molecular targets are being pursued. Their novel compounds offer the opportunity to benefit patients by treating inflammatory and neuropathic pain conditions at their source.

60.La Jolla

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company is dedicated to the commercialization of innovative therapies that improve outcomes in patients suffering from life-threatening diseases.

61.Libby Labs

Libby Laboratories, Inc.  Libby Labs has been a recognized custom formulator & manufacturer, private label skincare manufacturer and hair product manufacturer.  In addition, Libby Labs does custom & private face care, body care, men’s grooming, wet shaving, pet products, OTC topicals, and other specialty products for over 60 years.

Libby Laboratories has the highest quality and integrity of service in the cosmetics business working with customers, the client, to meet your needs.  They take pride in consistently providing the best to all types of clients, small and large.

62.Pharmative

At Pharmavite, they make products with a purpose, and their purpose is Bringing the Gift of Health to Life. They are always seeking like-minded, talented people who are passionate about health and wellness to join our team. They believe that if they work hard, and care about what they do, they will deliver exceptional results together.

63.Mirum Pharmaceuticals

Mirum is committed to putting the needs of patients first. Mirum are transforming lives devastated by rare liver diseases through the development of therapies that address the urgent unmet need. Currently, they are developing 2 clinical-stage medications that can potentially fill a therapeutic void across a range of rare liver diseases.

64.Terns Pharmaceuticals

Terns is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of single-agent and combination therapy candidates for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other chronic liver diseases.

65.Eledon Pharmaceuticals

Eledon is poised to leverage their expertise in both anti-CD40 Ligand biology and drug development to advance therapies seeking to help patients undergoing organ or cellular transplantation, as well as those living with autoimmune or neurodegenerative diseases, all of whom face limited options.

66.Par Pharma

Par Pharmaceutical specializes in modified-released oral solid dosage forms as well as non-oral dosage forms, such as nasal sprays, injectables, inhalers, patches and other alternative drug delivery platforms.Their focus is on therapeutically equivalent ANDA-based products, and others on a case-by-case basis.

67.Stason Pharmaceuticals

Stason is Established in 1989, Stason Industrial Corporation entered the US generics market with the formation of Stason Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 1994.  While venturing into NDA development, they continue to develop these products through our global network of affiliates, partners and distributors. In 2008, they launched their Brand Division when they obtained exclusive commercialization rights to novel proprietary compounds in the area of oncology. In 2015, they acquired an NDA.

68.Spectrum Pharmaceuticals

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing, and commercializing novel and targeted drug products, with a primary focus in oncology. Spectrum has a strong track record for in-licensing and acquiring differentiated drugs, and for clinical development. Spectrum has a late-stage pipeline that has the potential to transform the company.

69.NanoSmart Pharmaceuticals

NanoSmart® Pharmaceuticals is a privately-held California corporation that is developing nanoparticle drug delivery platforms that utilize anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) to target existing drug therapies to areas of necrosis present in virtually all solid cancer tumors.

70.Bachem

Bachem is a leading, innovation-driven company specializing in the development and manufacture of peptides and oligonucleotides. The company, which has 50 years of experience and expertise, provides products for research, clinical development and commercial application to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide and offers a comprehensive range of services. Bachem operates internationally with headquarters in Switzerland and locations in Europe, the US and Asia. The company is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

71.Pherin Pharmaceuticals

Pherin Pharmaceuticals is a privately held clinical stage drug development company headquartered in San Francisco, California. We focus on the discovery and development of proprietary compounds called pherines, for the acute treatment of neuropsychiatric and neuroendocrine conditions. We also believe there are numerous pherine  compounds with the potential to be developed as pharmaceuticals drugs.

72.Aridis Pharma

Aridis is discovering and developing highly differentiated drug candidates to prevent and treat life-threatening infectious diseases that overcome the threat of AMR and viral pandemic, with both therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and novel anti-infectives designed to expand the current standards of care.

73.Vault Pharma

Vault Pharma’s multi-IND technology platform uses the human vault particle to deliver peptide payloads for unique immune signaling.  They exploit the natural function of the human vault particle which is an immunological signal alert progenitor.  Natural vault function is most notably characterized by vault particles being rapidly and robustly ingested by antigen present’ing cells, APCs, specifically macrophages and dendritic cells.

74.BioKey

Biokey, Inc. is a company based out of 44370 Old Warm Springs Boulevard, Fremont, California, United States. Biokey Inc., is a technology-based specialty pharmaceutical company. The Company applies controlled release technology to develop generic and branded pharmaceuticals."

75.XOC Pharmaceuticals

Xoc Pharmaceuticals is an early-stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics. They design novel products “from the ground up” by leveraging information on existing compounds with established pharmacological and clinical history and utilizing the Company’s proprietary design and development process to address unmet medical needs, primarily in the CNS disease space.

76.Pharmapex

Pharmapex is a leading multinational group of companies that strives to meet a spectrum of evolving health care needs of people around the world. Pharmapex Group is not a separate legal entity but nomenclature used in generality for Pharmapex Inc., the flagship company, and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries, joint ventures, and strategic partners across the globe. All these entities are individual and separate by the law.

77.Armata Pharmaceuticals

Armata Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precisely targeted bacteriophage therapeutics for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. Antibiotic overuse has led to the marked rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria, putting us on the verge of a post-antibiotic era in which common infections can be serious or life-threatening. Additionally, the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is known for disrupting the ecology of the human microbiome, leading to disease.

78.AltheaDx, Inc.

AltheaDx Mission: Finding Effective Medications to Treat Mental Health Disorders · The power of Pharmacogenomics: Matching Patients to Medications · Reimbursement.

79.Escend Pharma

Escend Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is developing therapeutics for cancer orphan indications. Their development focus includes therapeutics that kill cancer stem cells in acute myelogenous leukemia and related hematologic malignancies.

80.Grofols

Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has enhanced the health and well-being of people around the world. They are an industry leader in producing plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine.

81.Phathom Pharma

Phathom Pharmaceuticals is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing new treatments for GI disorders. They have licensed the exclusive rights in the United States, Europe, and Canada to vonoprazan, an investigational potassium competitive acid blocker (P-CAB) in late clinical-stage development for the treatment of gastric acid-related disorders. Vonoprazan has the potential to be the first gastric anti-secretory agent from a new class approved in the United States, Europe, or Canada in over 30 years.

82.CareQuest Pharmacy

CareQuest Pharmacy is California's best pharmacy center. Here our expert pharmacists & doctors provide custonmers world class patient care while in treatment. Carequest Pharmacy is a pharmacy located in Reseda, CA.

83.Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals

CLINUVEL is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercialising treatments for patients with genetic, metabolic, and life-threatening disorders, as well as healthcare solutions for the general population. The CLINUVEL Group places much emphasis on its People and Environment as central to all of the Group’s working practise. CLINUVEL Group focuses its research and development on genetic metabolic and diseases not yet addressed, aiming to deliver innovative medical solutions for complex problems."

84.O-Ray Pharma

O-Ray Pharma, they are able to leverage more than 30 years of experience from our scientific team in extended release delivery systems in a basic and applied research environment. Their early success in securing NIH funding for much of this work is indicative of the level of expertise and the advanced state of O-Ray’s technology.

85.Astex Pharmaceuticals

Astex Pharmaceuticals ("Astex") is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of drugs in oncology and diseases of the central nervous system. Astex was founded in 1999 by Sir Tom Blundell, Chris Abell & Harren Jhoti, and is located in Cambridge, England.

86.PharmatroPhix

PharmatrophiX (PTX) is a privately held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of disease-modifying small molecule drugs targeting mechanisms underlying neurode generative and other disorders. PTX is operated as a virtual biotech company in Menlo Park, CA executing drug development through contracted work. This virtual model is recognized as an effective way of minimizing overhead costs while efficiently achieving drug development milestones.

87.SFJ Pharma

SFJ’s objective is to provide pharmaceutical and biotech companies incremental budget and global clinical development resources to accelerate the regulatory approval, expand the life cycle and optimize the value of our partners’ most promising pipeline assets. They accomplish this via a unique, risk-based investment model that not only shares the risk of clinical and regulatory success, but also adds incremental indications and markets through resource augmentation.

88.Materia

Materia maintains business operations, research and development facilities, and manufacturing at our headquarters in Pasadena, California. Materia’s high performance resins are designed to outperform traditional thermoset resins with higher toughness, lower weight, faster processing times, and a lower environmental impact. See why manufacturers are replacing current epoxy, vinyl ester and polyester resins with higher performing Proxima resins.

89.Acadia Pharma

Acadia is trailblazing breakthroughs in neuroscience to elevate life. They are at the forefront of healthcare, fighting for breakthroughs in our science, their therapies and the way they work, but also in the lives of the people they serve. At Acadia, they are committed to the purpose: fighting  disease so more customer shines through.

90.Adastra Pharmaceuticala

Adastra is a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on providing novel solutions to advance patient care in oncology. Their vision is to identify, develop and deliver important new therapies for cancers with significant unmet needs.

91.Arena Pharmaceuticals

Arena Pharmaceuticals is a team with a singular focus—deliver important medicines* to patients.The global market is changing rapidly. Keeping up isn’t enough. This is the urgency that drives us day after day to understand stakeholders, to identify bold—even disruptive—ideas that will get medicines to patients, and to relentlessly execute until it’s done.

92.ARS Pharmaceuticals

ARS Pharmaceuticals is to provide at-risk patients and their families superior protection from severe allergic reactions. We are developing a product that patients and their caregivers can use without anxiety or hesitation, confident in both the product and the ability to administer it.

93.Asha Pharmaceuticals

Asha means Hope. Asha’s vision is to bring hope in the lives of patients by enhancing the bioavailability of new drugs, helping them get to the market faster and reducing drug development costs. They work with our clients through the solid form screening and selection process. Our innovative and efficient proprietary workflows help discover new solid forms (polymorphs, salts and cocrystals) of pharmaceutical molecules and enhance bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs.They aspire to be the best in class solid form research company in the world.

94.Avalyn Pharmaceuticals

Avalyn is a biopharma company committed to developing improved therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other severe respiratory diseases. Our lead asset is inhaled pirfenidone (AP01) for the treatment of IPF. With offices in Seattle and San Diego, Avalyn's experienced clinical and inhaled product development team is rapidly advancing AP01 for the treatment of IPF and additional pipeline candidates for IPF and other severe respiratory diseases.

95.Ultragenyx

At Ultragenyx, they have a unique formula for drug development that reflects our shared urgency to accelerate the timelines for delivering safe and effective new medicines to patients. Their management team is experienced in all aspects of biopharmaceutical development and commercialization."

96.Camino Pharma

Camino Pharma is a San Diego-based startup company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class therapies for patients suffering from cancer and CNS disorders. They target signaling proteins based on emerging biological concepts and discover novel mechanisms for modulating these targets with small molecule drugs. The leadership team has proven expertise in the relevant target biology, as well as extensive experience in drug discovery and development.

97.Curx Pharmaceuticals

Curx Pharma develop therapeutics that they are confident will provide effective solutions to currently unmet needs of patients with chronic diseases. Their strategy is to search for and license mid- to late-stage molecules that fulfill the criteria for further development. These criteria include sound scientific rationale, strong preclinical and clinical study results, defined regulatory pathway to approval and robust IP protection.

98.DTx Pharma

DTX Pharma, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The Company specializes in developing novel RNA-based therapeutics to treat the genetic drivers of disease. DTX Pharma serves medical sector in the United States.

99.EHP Pharmaceuticals

At Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals (EHP), the company is focused on the development of a new class of drugs with precise mechanisms of action aimed at bringing innovative therapies to patients to treat diseases with significant unmet medical needs.We believe their novel patented molecules have the potential to be developed into safe and effective pharmaceutical compounds to treat neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.

100.Intercept Pharmaceuticals

Intercept is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics to treat progressive, non-viral liver diseases, including primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and biliary atresia.

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