Medical Companies

Industry: Medical Testing
Cepheid develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems that perform genetic analysis, including DNA and RNA analysis, for the clinical genetic assessment, biothreat, and life sciences markets. Our systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing of organisms by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. Genetic testing involves a number of complicated steps, including sample preparation, amplification and detection. Based on state-of-the-art microfluidic and microelectronic technologies, our easy-to-use systems integrate these steps and analyze complex biological samples in our proprietary test ( www.cepheid.com )

Cepheid Inc.
904 Caribbean Drive
Sunnyvale, California 94089-1302
USA

Tel: (408) 541-4191
Fax: (408) 541-4192

Industry: Medical Testing
Strategic Diagnostics Inc., (Nasdaq: SDIX) headquartered in Newark, DE USA, is a biotechnology company dedicated to bringing innovative solutions to analytical testing problems through immunotechnology. SDI is a leading developer and manufacturer of immunoassay-based test kits for both field testing and laboratory use. These products are used extensively for contaminated waste site assessment and remediation, water quality management, food labeling and transgenic crop seed production. SDI is a major developer and producer of antibodies and immunoreagents for a broad range of applications. The company is applying this extensive technical expertise to the rapidly growing agricultural markets for crop disease management as well as to medical and industrial ( www.sdix.com )

Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
111 Pencader Dr
Newark, Delaware 19702
USA

Tel: (302) 456-6789
Fax: (302) 456-6770

Industry: Medical Testing
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Informatics Division (http://www.informatics.bio-rad.com/), now celebrating over 125 years in business, is a world leader in analytical informatics, specializing in the design and manufacture of complete software and database solutions that combine the means necessary to build, analyze, and access analytical databases with the ability to create, manage, and communicate knowledge from these databases. Bio-Rad has remained the leading producer and publisher of fully verified spectral databases, with its Sadtler Database collection that contains IR, NMR, MS, UV-Vis, and Raman spectra. Bio-Rad distributes its products worldwide through hundreds of direct and OEM representatives. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. ( www.bio-rad.com )

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc
1000 Alfred Nobel Drive
Hercules, California 94547
USA

Tel: (510) 724-7000
Fax: (510) 741-5817

Industry: Medical Testing
Matritech Inc. , based in Newton , Mass. , is using its proprietary nuclear matrix protein ( NMP ). technology , discovered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and licensed exclusively to Matritech , to develop and commercialize innovative serum- , cell- and urine-based NMP diagnostics that enable physicians to reliably detect and monitor the presence of bladder , colon , cervical , breast and prostate cancers. Matritech’s nuclear matrix protein ( NMP ) technology platform correlates levels of NMPs in body fluids and tissues to the presence of cancer. Multiple published clinical studies have validated this ability of NMPs to detect early-stage cancerous abnormalities. Matritech has a deep pipeline of NMP-based products in pre-clinical and clinical development. ( www.matritech.com )

Matritech , Inc.
330 Nevada St
Newton, Massachusetts 02460
USA

Tel: (617) 928-0820
Fax: (617) 928-0821

Industry: Medical Testing
Inverness Medical Innovations is a leading global developer of advanced diagnostic devices and is presently exploring new opportunities for its proprietary electrochemical and other technologies in a variety of professional diagnostic and consumer-oriented applications including immuno-diagnostics with a focus on women’s health, cardiology and infectious disease. The Company’s new product development efforts, as well as its position as a leading supplier of consumer pregnancy and fertility/ovulation tests and rapid point-of-care diagnostics, are supported by the strength of its intellectual property portfolio. The Company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. ( www.invernessmedical.com )

Inverness Medical Innovations , Inc.
51 Sawyer Road Suite 200
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453-3448
USA

Tel: (781) 647-3900

Industry: Medical Testing
Cytyc Corporation is a leading provider of best-in-class medical technology that enables physicians and laboratories to improve patients’ lives throughout the world. Cytyc provides diagnostic and minimally invasive surgical products targeting cancer and women’s health. The ThinPrep(R) System is the most widely used method for cervical cancer screening in the United States. The ThinPrep System consists of the ThinPrep(R) 2000 Processor, ThinPrep(R) 3000 Processor, ThinPrep(R) Imaging System, and related reagents, filters, and other supplies. The ThinPrep System also provides the platform from which the Company launched its expansion into breast cancer risk assessment with the FirstCyte(R) Breast ( www.cytyc.com )

Cytyc Corporation
250 Campus Drive
Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752
USA

Tel: (508) 263-2900
Fax: (508) 229-2795

Industry: Medical Testing
OraSure Technologies, Inc. is the market leader in oral fluid diagnostics. The Company develops, manufactures and markets medical devices and diagnostic products for use by insurance companies, public health agencies, clinical laboratories, physicians’ offices, and workplace sites. ( www.orasure.com )

Orasure Technologies Inc
150 Webster St
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
USA

Tel: (503) 641-6115
Fax: (610) 882-1830

Industry: Medical Testing
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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
1290 Wall St. West
Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071
USA

Tel: 201-729-8980

Industry: Medical Testing
Ranking:
Russell 3000
Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood. Gen-Probe has more than 24 years of NAT expertise, and received the 2004 National Medal of Technology, America’s highest honor for technological innovation, for developing NAT assays for blood screening. Gen-Probe is headquartered in San Diego and employs approximately 1,000 people. ( www.gen-probe.com )

Gen-Probe Incorporated
10210 Genetic Center Drive
San Diego, California 92121
USA

Tel: (858) 410-8000
Fax: (800) 288-3141