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Diamond
Alberta Research Council
Apotex Fermentation, Inc.
Dow Biocides
Fish & Richardson
Marcor Development Corp.
Novozymes, Inc.
Pall Life Sciences
Roche Applied Science

Gold
Amgen, Inc.
Appropriate Technical Resources (ATR, Inc.)
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
Broadley-James Corporation
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Flownamics
LumaSense Technologies
Mycosynthetix, Inc.
Panlabs Biologics (BVI), Inc.
Sartorius Stedim North America, Inc.
Sensient BioIngredients
YSI, Inc.

Bronze
Ajinomoto Del Peru S.A.
Allergan, Inc.
Alltech, Inc.
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
Applikon Biotechnology, Inc.
Archer Daniel Midland Co.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Biolog, Inc.
BioPro International, Inc.
Bio-Technical Resources
Cargill
Chugai Pharmaceutical, Co., Ltd.
DASGIP BioTools, LLC
DMV International
DNA 2.0
DSM
Envera, LLC
GEA Process Engineering, Inc.
Genencor International, Inc.
Global BioIngredients, Inc.
Hamilton Company
Katzen International, Inc.
Lallemand, Inc.
MBI International
MIDI, Inc.
Neutrogena Corporation
New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc.
Northwestern University - Masters of Biotechnology Program
Osprey Biotechnics, Inc.
Phoenix BioConsulting, LLC
Uganda Industrial Research Institute
QMI
Qteros, Inc.
Traders Protein

Alphabetical listing by company name:

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Ajinomoto del Peru S.A.
Gallao, Peru
Member since 2004

Alberta Research Council Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Member since 1993

The Alberta Research Council offers proven capability in contract fermentation process development, optimization, scale-up or production. We are experienced with more than 50 different species of micro-organisms and can develop a procedure for bacterial, yeast, fungal, algal, recombinant or insect cell culture expression system. Scale-up and manufacturing is possible from shaker-flask to 10,000 Litres.

American Type Culture Collection Manassas, VA Member since 1985
Amgen, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA Member since 2004
Amgen discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to realize the new science's promise by bringing safe and effective medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other serious illnesses. With a broad and deep pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people's lives. To learn more about our pioneering science and our vital medicines, visit www.amgen.com.

Appropriate Technical Resources, Inc. Laurel, MD Member since 2002
ATR is the US partner of Infors. With 40 years of experience, INFORS provides innovative fermenter and control systems for research and process engineering. The Multitron environmental stackable shakers; provide cooling, lighting, humidity and CO2 control. Terrafors solid state fermenter is a unique instrument for the study of bioremediation and biodegradation.

Apotex Fermentation, Inc. Winnipeg, MB Canada Member since 2008
Apotex Fermentation Inc is your trusted, one stop development partner in North America. From shake-flask to commercial launch AFI provides fermentation and purification services under CGMP conditions for therapeutics and nutraceuticals. AFI has a strong R&D center and our regulatory department will handle your filings around the world including the CMC section in IND applications in USA.

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Member since 2001

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Biolog, Inc.
Hayward, CA
Member since 2008

BioPro International, Inc.
Farmingdale, NY
Member since 1994

Bio-Technical Resources
Manitowoc, WI
Member since 1993

Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
Washington, DC
Member since 2009

Broadley-James Corporation
Irvine, CA
Member since 1998

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Cargill
Minneapolis, MN
Member since 1999

Chugai Pharmaceutical, Co., Ltd.
Japan
Member since 2009

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Lexington, MA Member since 2005

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq CBST) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on research, development and commercialization of products that address unmet medical needs in the acute care environment. Cubist, headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, has focused on developing opportunities in the anti-infective marketplace. Cubist's flagship drug, CUBICIN® (daptomycin for injection) has experienced the most successful launch of an IV antibiotic in US history.

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DASGIP BioTools, LLC
Shrewsbury, MA
Member since 2007

DMV International
Delhi, NY
Member since 1985

DNA 2.0
Menlo Park, CA
Member since 2009

Dow Biocides Buffalo Grove, IL Member since 2006

At Dow Biocides, our philosophy is simple — we want our customers to make one call to resolve all their biocides needs. Choosing the correct biocide can be critical to the successful performance of your formulation, which is why it is important to think of biocides at the start of your formulation process to solve microbial issues before they occur. Customers depend on Dow Biocides as the leader in microbial solutions– from application technology, challenge testing and regulatory compliance, to process chemistry and operations excellence. Our knowledgeable and qualified microbiologists and chemists will help you select the most effective solutions for your unique applications. Our best-in-class application science drives a culture dedicated to helping our customers achieve sustainable growth. Through our franchise molecules as well as our external manufacturing and synthesis capabilities Dow Biocides is the leader in biocide regulatory and registration expertise combined with world-class toxicology and environmental research expertise. With an extensive and continuously expanding portfolio of products that can solve almost any microbial challenge, Dow Biocides is the global leader in providing value-creating solutions to enable customer success. Offering a wide range of fungicides, algaecides, bactericides, sanitizers and disinfectants as well as technological advances such as TAUNOVATE SM High-Throughput microbial testing capabilities, Dow Biocides helps make its customers’ operations more cost-effective and efficient. Ask Us what we can do for you.

DSM
Heerlen, The Netherlands
Member since 1987

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Envera, LLC
Coatesville, PA
Member since 2010

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Fish & Richardson
Washington, DC
Member since 2008
Fish & Richardson is an international firm practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and offers global services that include worldwide IP strategy and representation in multi-national litigation. Our patent practice is one of the largest and well-respected in the world and we have established a reputation among the science, technology, business, and financial communities for the highest quality of work in the most complex patent matters. Founded in 1878, Fish represented great innovators and entrepreneurs, including pioneering inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and the Wright Brothers. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies. In fact, Fish represents 11 of the top 25 World’s Most Innovative Companies, as identified in a Spring 2007 Business Week survey and was named "Law firm of the Year for Life Sciences and Biotechnology" by Managing Intellectual Property magazine in April 2008.

Flownamics, Inc. Madison, WI Member since 2007

Flownamics® was founded in 1995 to address the growing needs of fermentation and bioreactor operators in the biotechnology industry. Our focus is to design high quality products that are easy to operate. Our products assist researchers in developing methods to optimize their fermentation or bioreactor processes and are utilized in a variety of settings, including labs, pilot plants, and production scale.  Flownamics products are designed to dramatically reduce process development time, and to provide increased cost savings in production and manufacturing environments by providing automated sampling solutions. 

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Mycosynthetix, Inc. Hillsborough, NC Member since 2005

Mycosynthetix Inc. is a privately-held microbial products company founded in 2001. Mycosynthetix owns a unique continually expanding fungal collection containing 55,000 individual isolates and these have been employed by medicinal, agricultural and industrial discovery groups seeking novel metabolites and enzymes. We supply libraries of fungal products together with follow-on support for optimization, isolation and scale- up. This has resulted in the discovery of novel biologically active compounds and Mycosynthetix also provides the taxonomy required for patenting purposes. Mycosynthetix works with both fungal and bacterial fermentation products, and conducts fermentation and biotransformation research and development with microorganisms from our own collection and those provided by our customers. In addition to providing natural products to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries we are currently working on projects funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Medicines for Malaria Venture. For further information please contact us at info@mycosynthetix.com or via phone at 919.245.0600.

Pall Life Sciences East Hills, NY Member since 1968

Pall offers process filtration, separation and purification development, pilot and manufacturing equipment and validation services together with pre-inspection reviews, troubleshooting consultancy, training, contamination analysis and other technical assistance. We offer protein expression monitoring and multi-step chromatography purification development, target and impurity tracking and host cell protein assay development, purification optimization and custom affinity sorbents.

Panlabs Biologics (BVI), Inc. Taipei, Taiwan Member since 1987

Panlabs, founded in 1973, exists as the CRO (Contract Research Organization) and restarted as Panlabs Biologics since 2005. Our clients cover the gamut of start up biotech firms, big pharmaceutical companies, biofuel companies and chemical/food industries. We are capable of offering tailored service to meet the clients’ needs on aerobic/anaerobic process development. Based on this broad scope, we provide strain improvement, bioconversion, fermentation process development service. Additionally, we offer microbial extracts for new drug discovery. More importantly, the intellectual property of research results belongs to our clients. Panlabs Biologics would be happy to give further information on our technologies and services. Welcome to contact us at service@panlabsbiologics.com and let us know your needs.

Sensient BioIngredients Indianapolis, IN Member since 1993

Sensient Bio-Ingredients is a global manufacturer of high quality fermentation nutrients. The Sensient Bio-Ingredients portfolio includes a complete range of yeast extracts, animal-free hydrolysates and dairy hydrolysates, which are available worldwide from global manufacturing locations. Additionally, we are the co-developer and exclusive marketer of dairy and soy peptones produced by Tatua Dairy Cooperative in New Zealand. With over a century of expertise and product development knowledge, we deliver value to meet the evolving needs of our customers in core and emerging markets. Our products provide microorganisms with nitrogen, vitamins and micronutrients not found in defined media. Peptides, amino acids and other nutrients occur naturally in our yeast products and many of our other hydrolyzed proteins, making them suitable for use in a variety of fermentation applications. In Sensient, you will find a single-source supplier from development to production, with the experience, knowledge and a complete line of complex nutrients to meet your cost and performance goals. For more information or to order a sample of our fermentation nutrients, please visit our website: www.sensientbio.com.