Biotech, Biosciences and Biopharmaceutical Companies in the State of Illinois
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois: Abbott is a global broad-based health care company discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics.

Abraxis Pharmaceutical Products, Schaumburg, IL: Fulfills an important need in the medical community as a provider of a broad portfolio of multi-source and branded injectable pharmaceutical products, including difficult to manufacture, urgently needed medical products.

Advanced Life,  Woodridge, IL:A biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs in the therapeutic areas of infection, cancer and inflammation. The company's lead candidate is a novel ketolide antibiotic in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of respiratory tract infections.
 
AgD Nutrition, Chicago, IL:Founded in 2002 to develop and market nutritional ingredients using advanced technology and outstanding customer service. AgD is synonymous with progress, shaped by chemists, engineers, and business professionals who for years have been managing food and pharmaceutical advancements at leading multinational firms. Now they are defining a new industry standard marked by integrity, insight,and innovation.

Ajinomoto Heartland, Chicago, IL: The goal of Ajinomoto is to offer amino acids dedicated for animal nutrition that will enhance the use of limited agricultural resources, and provide the best economical performance leading to better human lives and environment.

Astellas US LLC., Deerfiled, IL A pharmaceutical company focused on five key therapeutic areas: Cardiology, Dermatology, Immunology, Infectious Disease and Urology.

Baxter International, Inc., Deerfield, Illinois:Human Therapeutics,  Lab supply,  Medical  Devices. Baxter assists healthcare professionals and their patients with the treatment of complex medical conditions, including hemophilia, immune disorders, cancer, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma and other conditions.

Bio-logic designs, Mundelein, IL:Manufactures and distributes an integrated family of hearing screening & diagnostics, neurodiagnostic and sleep diagnostic systems and supplies.

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Lincolnshire, Illinois:Pharmaceuticals, drug delivery. BioSante is developing a pipeline of gel hormone therapy products that deliver bioidentical estradiol and testosterone to treat both men and women. The company's lead products include treatments for women with menopausal symptoms, and female sexual dysfunction. Also in development is calcium phosphate nanotechnology for novel vaccines, including avian flu and biodefense vaccines for toxins such as anthrax and ricin, and drug delivery systems.

BioTechLogic, Glenview, IL: A biopharmaceutical and technology management firm with a unique, proven capability to rapidly and successfully bring products to market through the augmentation and optimization of a corporation's technical resources.

Cardinal Health (Illinois), Woodstock, IL: Contract Sterile Manufacturing and Packaging Services.

Clonex Development, Inc., Chicago, IL: Custom cell line development, Protein Production Services

Chromatin, Inc.,  Chicago, IL: Biotech, Agribiotech, Agribiotechnology, mini-chromosome technologies, Plant Biotechnology. Chromatin develops and markets proprietary technology that enables entire chromosomes to be designed and incorporated into plant cells. These engineered chromosomes make it possible to simultaneously introduce multiple genes into a plant cell while maintaining precise control of gene expression. The company is using these new genetic tools to design and market products that confer commercially valuable traits in plants, including improved nutritional and health characteristics, and can be used for industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical product development.

deCODE genetics, Product Development, Woodridge, IL:Develop and commercialize new drugs to treat and prevent common diseases,  Heart attack (also called myocardial infarction, Asthma, type 2 diabetes, Schizophrenia , Obesity.

Errant Gene Therapeutics Inc., Chicago, IL A privately held biopharmaceutical company whose mission is the development of treatments for life-threatening diseases with a special focus on rare diseases, commonly referred to as “orphan diseases.” The company is developing its portfolio of pharmaceutical products to correct the erroneous gene expression associated with many of these diseases. Their therapies are currently being developed for hemoglobinopathies and selected cancers.

Fermalogic Inc., Chicago, IL:A research-driven industrial biotechnology company that develops technology to improve pharmaceutical manufacturing. The company specializes in pharmaceuticals produced by fermentation, which encompasses a range of products from antibiotics to anticancer agents, immunosuppressants, and many other types of natural products. In addition, heir first technology in the area of co-product recovery applies to recovering isoflavones as a co-product from soy-bean based fermentations such as antibiotic fermentations.

General Biomass, Evanston, IL: Develops and promotes biomass technologies, with an emphasis on the conversion of cellulosic biomass to ethanol as a substitute for gasoline. The company's R&D efforts focus on biotechnology for the production and utilization of cellulase enzymes for fuel ethanol production.

Hospira, Lake Forest, IL: A specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing products that help improve the productivity, safety and efficacy of patient care. The company's portfolio includes a broad line of generic acute-care injectables, which help address the high cost of proprietary pharmaceuticals and integrated solutions for medication management and infusion therapy.

Immtech, Chicago, IL: Mission is to develop and commercialize new treatments for infectious diseases and other disorders with significant unmet needs.

Integrated Genomics, Inc., Chicago, IL:A provider of bioinformatics products and services for the life science industry, with a recent focus on the use of in silico strategies for comparative genomics. The company's expertise in microbial genomics includes genome sequencing, genome analysis and custom bioinformatics.

KeraCure inc., Chicago, IL: A company commercializing products for the advanced wound healing market. The company's focus is the application of its product to heal chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers, venous stasis ulcers and pressure ulcers.

Maroon Biotech Corporation, Chicago, IL:Developed a new category of pharmaceuticals called surfactant chaperones, which have the capability to restore structure and viability to cells disrupted by physical and chemical trauma. This technology has demonstrated effectiveness in treating experimental spinal cord injury, heart attack and brain injury. It has the potential to improve recovery from vehicular, military and other types of severe traumatic injuries, electric shock and reperfusion injury.

Morton Grove Pharmaceutical Inc., Morton Grove, IL: Specializes in the development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription generic oral liquids, topical solutions, and sterile inhalation drugs.

Nanosphere, NorthBrook, IL:Redefining molecular diagnostics with a nanotechnology-based platform that will enable earlier detection and treatment of disease. The company's ultra-sensitive protein detection and direct genomic testing technologies permit the development of new biomarkers and measurement of existing biomarkers at concentrations undetectable by today's diagnostic technologies.

NEOPHARM, Waukegan, IL:A publicly traded biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of new and innovative cancer drugs for therapeutic applications. NEOPHARM has built its drug portfolio based on its two novel proprietary technology platforms: a tumor-targeting platform and the NeoLipid® drug delivery system.

Northfield Laboratories, Evanston, IL:Develops an oxygen-carrying red blood cell substitute for the treatment of life-threatening blood loss, when an oxygen-carrying fluid is required and red blood cells are not available.

Northview Laboratories, Northbrook, IL: SGS Northview is a laboratory offering comprehensive testing capabilities in microbiology, sterility assurance, analytical chemistry and biocompatibility.

Ocularis Pharma, North Riverside, IL:A specialty pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative products to improve vision quality and performance.

OVATION Pharmaceutical Inc., Deerfiled, IL:A biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes innovative medicines for severely ill patients with unmet medical needs. The company is committed to having a significant impact on patients’ lives through its focus on central nervous system (CNS), hematology/oncology, and hospital-based therapies.

Pentech Pharmaceutical Inc.,  Rolling Meadows, IL:A privately-held pharmaceutical company that investigates and develops safe and effective pharmaceutical products for the treatment and management of quality of life and lifestyle conditions. The company's mission is to develop and commercialize novel, safe and effective prescription drug therapies, delivery systems and applications forf patients across the age-spectrum with particular attention to the aging adult population.

Precision Biomarker Resources Inc., Evanston, IL:Provides automated, high-throughput microarray services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The laboratory offers services that make biomarker discovery more precise, including sample processing, experimental design and data analysis.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc, Lincolnshire, Illinois:Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals.

TAP Pharmaceutical  Products Inc., Lake Forest, IL: A joint venture between Abbott and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LTd., developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products in the United States to help patients in need of important medicines.

TheraTest,  Lombard, IL: Manufactures and distributes ELISA-based diagnostic test kits for the detection and measurement of autoantibodies for rheumatic diseases: ANAs (screening and antigen specific), rheumatoid factors, anti-cardiolipin, etc.

Vysis, Des Plaines, IL: A wholly-owned subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, is a genomic disease management company that develops, commercializes and markets DNA-based clinical products providing information critical to the evaluation and management of cancer, prenatal disorders and other genetic diseases.


Associations, Societies of Biomedical, Biotech related industry in the State of Illinois:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois:Research Institute.  The OTT's mission is to proactively deliver advanced technology and technical services to industry by targeting strategic emerging high-impact technologies and forming market-driven alliances. The office seeks to expand benefits to users of technology, to enhance market impact, to provide competitive returns to Argonne, and to contribute to the solution of important domestic problems.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), Chicago, IL is the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education.

American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Arlington Heights, IL:a national professional association that promotes advancement of the field of blood and bone marrow transplantation.

iBIO, Chicago, IL:Champions the life sciences in Illinois and the surrounding Midwest by: advocating sound public policy at the local, state, and federal levels; creating a strong sense of community and interaction among public, private, and academic/research sectors; and promoting development and retention of new companies and corporate expansions.

Illinois Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, Chicago, IL: The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is charged with enhancing Illinois' economic competitiveness by providing technical and financial assistance to businesses, local governments, workers and families. As the state's lead economic development agency, DCEO works to capitalize on Illinois' strengths as a center of transportation, manufacturing and technology development. The agency actively promotes the state's business-friendly policies, highly productive workers, and entrepreneurial spirit -- attributes that helped Illinois win Site Selection magazine's Governor's Cup as the top state in the nation for business development.

Midwest Research University Network, Evanston, IL:MRUN was established as an alliance of university business development professionals dedicated to facilitating growth of technology spinout companies through start–up formation. The organization is built around the idea that regional cooperation in new business formation can foster commercialization of university research.


Colleges, Universities and Schools in Illinois Related to Biosciences and  Biotechnology.

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: The Technology Transfer Program assists faculty, students and staff in moving academic innovation from the bench to the market. The program assists with negotiating licenses, protecting intellectual property, and commercializing technologies.

Southern Illinois University,  Carbondale, Office of Research Development & Administration, Carbondale, IL: SIU technology transfer activities are coordinated by the ORDA. These activities include evaluation, protection and marketing, and license negotiations for inventions and other intellectual property covered by SIU's Intellectual Property Policy.


University of Illinois, Chicago, IL The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology was established as a multi-disciplinary unit with the intent of providing educational and academic research opportunities in the rapidly developing area of biotechnology, and to encourage collaboration across conventional departmental and college boundaries.