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Orexigen Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, is focused on the treatment of obesity. Contrave, Orexigen’s lead product candidate, has completed Phase III clinical trials, and a New Drug Application has been submitted and reviewed by the…

Isis Pharmaceuticals is engaged in discovering and developing novel drugs for its product pipeline and for its partners through the exploitation of its leadership position in antisense technology. The company’s pipeline consists of 25 drugs…

Spherix is an innovator in biotechnology for therapy in diabetes, metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis. The company is also engaged in providing technical and regulatory consulting services to food, supplement, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Spherix leverages…

Verenium Corp. is a leading global industrial biotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes. The company uses proprietary processes in identifying and evolving enzymes from the broad biodiversity found in nature.…

Wave Systems Corp. is an industry leader in providing client and server software for hardware-based digital security. The company starts inside the device, thereby reducing the complexity, cost and uncertainty of data protection. Where other…

Celsion Corporation is a leading oncology company specializing in the development and commercialization of cancer drugs, including tumor-targeting treatments that utilize focused heat energy combined with heat-activated liposomal drug technology. Celsion has research, license or…

Arrowhead Research is a clinical stage targeted therapeutics company that has development programs in oncology, obesity and infectious disease. The company utilizes its platform technologies in designing and developing peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs), which specifically home…

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapeutics based on RNA interference (RNAi). The company is at the helm of translating RNAi into a new class of innovative medicines, with a core…

Oculus Innovative Sciences is a commercial healthcare company focused on designing, producing and marketing healthcare products that are innovative, safe and effective. The company is engaged in pioneering innovative solutions in multiple markets, including dermatology,…

Sapiens International Corporation is a worldwide provider of innovative insurance software solutions for the financial services industry, offering core, end-to-end software solutions for the general insurance, property, casualty, life, pension and retirement markets. The company…

NeoStem is focused on developing and building on its core capabilities in cell therapy, to capitalize on the burgeoning cell therapy industry as well as cell therapy’s future role in the fight against chronic disease;…

GreenHunter Energy is a diversified renewable energy company chiefly focused on water resource management in the unconventional oil and natural gas shale resource plays. Through GreenHunter Water LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary, the company provides…

Vical is dedicated to researching and developing biopharmaceutical products that are based on the company’s patented DNA delivery technologies for preventing and treating serious or life-threatening diseases. The company is internally developing specific infectious disease…

Sarepta Therapeutics, formerly AVI BioPharma, specializes in the development of leading-edge RNA-based therapeutics that improve and save the lives of those affected by serious and life-threatening rare and infectious diseases. The company’s varied pipeline includes…

Transcept Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in developing and commercializing proprietary products that address therapeutic needs in the field of neuroscience. Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate) sublingual tablet C-IV is the company’s first FDA-approved product.…

Orbotech, an innovator of enabling technologies for manufacturing the world’s most sophisticated consumer and industrial products, has been at the forefront of the electrical industry supply chain for more than 30 years. Today, virtually every…

Rosetta Green is an Israeli public company engaged in the development of improved plant traits for the agricultural and biofuel industries. The company specializes in the identification and use of unique genes called microRNAs, which…

MannKind Corporation is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products for patients with diseases like diabetes and cancer. AFREZZA, the company’s lead product candidate, is currently in late-stage clinical investigation for the…

Sparton Corporation, in operation for more than a century, primarily serves the medical, military & aerospace, and industrial & instrumentation markets. The company provides complex and sophisticated electromechanical devices with capabilities including concept development, industrial…

IPC Oil and Gas Holdings is a publicly traded oil and gas company which explores for oil in the Levantine Basin offshore Israel. The company holds 6.8045% of two petroleum drilling licenses, Sarah and Myra,…

PowerSecure International is a leader in providing utility and energy technologies to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional and commercial customers. The company offers products and services in the areas of energy efficiency, interactive distributed…

EMRISE Corporation is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of electronic devices, sub-systems and equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications markets. The company’s products perform critical functions, including power supply and power conversion, radio frequency…