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Corporate Sponsors

Advanced ChemTech, Inc. Alltech Assoc. Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Argonaut Technologies, Inc. Applied Test Systems Barnstead/Thermolyne Corp. BASF Corp. BD Biosciences BD Pharmingen Bio-Byte Corp. Brinkmann Instruments Boulder Scientific Co. Cambridge Discovery Chemistry Cambridge Isotopes Cartesian Technologies, Inc. Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cellomics, Inc. Chemetall Chemical Products, Inc. Chemfinet Chem-Mall  ChemSyn Laboratories Cole-Parmer Instrument Co. Combi-Blocks Doubletwist Gaylord Chemical Corp Gilson, Inc. Greiner America Hamilton Co. Honeywell Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Jones Chromatography J-Star Research J.T. Baker Kimble/Kontes Leap Technologies Lyondell  Macherey-Nagel MDL Information Systems Medichem Research, Inc. MicroGrip Corp. Millennium Pharmaceuticals NRD, Inc. Nuaire, Inc. NuGenesis Technologies Ocean Optics, Inc. Panvera Pfanstiehl Laboratories, Inc. Pfizer Pharm-Eco Laboratories, Inc. PolyPeptide Laboratories Sabinsa Corp. Scientific Software, Inc. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc Sigma-Aldrich Sloss Industries Corp. SNPE Spectra-Tech, Inc. Spectrum Laboratory Products, Inc. Synthon Corp. Toso Haas Valco Instruments Co., Inc. Varian Wheaton Science Products Zymark

Introduction   In an international industry in which no single company truly dominates, personalities are distinct and outstanding achievements are legion. And inevitably, in the life-and-death business of pharmaceuticals, the regulators play their part.

Most of today’s pharmaceutical companies are huge conglomerates. In some cases, they are the result of previously unthinkable mergers of once-bitter competitors. In other cases, they are enormous collections of companies with interests ranging from prescription drugs to agrochemicals to personal care products. Surprisingly, though, none of the companies commands even 10% of the global pharmaceuticals market, according to the financial network CNNfn. Perhaps moresurprising, each company retains a distinct personality—with all the accomplishments and foibles that the word implies. The same is true of the prominent regulatory agencies and funding organizations, which directed and nurtured the growth of the companies and, thus, helped to shape the Pharmaceutical Century.

Browse Companies		Browse Agencies
Abbott Laboratories American Home Products AstraZeneca Aventis Bayer Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol-Myers Squibb Eli Lilly and Company Glaxo Wellcome Johnson & Johnson Merck & Company Novartis Pfizer Pharmacia & Upjohn Roche Pharmaceuticals Schering-Plough SmithKline Beecham Takeda Warner-Lambert		Food and Drug Administration National Institutes of Health Rockefeller Institute and Foundation Agence Française de Sécurité    Sanitaire des Produits de Santé Bundesgesundheitsamt European Agency for the   Evaluation of Medicinal Products Institut Pasteur Medicines Control Agency World Health Organization