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About Our Sponsors

Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health. Our products span the continuum of care, from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics through medical devices and pharmaceutical therapies. Our comprehensive line of products encircles life itself – addressing important health needs from infancy to the golden years.

Throughout our 100+ year history, Abbott people have been driven by a constant goal: to advance medical science to help people live healthier lives. It’s part of our heritage. And, it continues to drive our work. Today, 65,000 Abbott employees around the world share the passion for "Turning Science Into Caring." It's a commitment to focusing on what matters most: life and the potential it holds when we are feeling our best.
    

The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 15 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 137 affiliates in 47 countries and approximately 38, 900 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, this family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
    

Campbell Alliance is the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The firm's clients include most of the world's top-20 pharmaceutical companies, as well as numerous emerging and midsize firms. Campbell Alliance is organized into practice areas, each specializing in a critical industry function: Brand Management, Business Development, Clinical Development, Managed Markets, Sales, and Trade and Distribution. From its locations in Raleigh, NC, Parsippany, NJ, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Atlanta, and London, the firm serves clients throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. For more information on Campbell Alliance, please visit http://www.campbellalliance.com.

    

Dean & Company is a strategy consulting firm with a unique mix of both traditional business strategy work and a range of investing activities for large corporations, technology start-ups, and equity funds. We work with senior executives to dramatically improve and sustain their company's performance. Dean & Company has an established, highly successful track record in generating actionable and quantifiable results for our clients in the Life Sciences. These include a number of the largest global companies as well as emerging leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and Medical Devices & Technology industries. We additionally have developed specialized expertise in the Vaccines industry. The hallmark of our work in life sciences, as in other industries, is our ability to deliver highly quantitative, analytic-driven solutions to complex business problems and the development of practical, action-oriented recommendations and their associated measurable impact on the bottom-line. Our life sciences capabilities extend across the following industry challenges and issues: Licensing/Strategic Alliances/M&A Due Diligence, Portfolio/Life Cycle Management, Product Commercialization & Launch, Manufacturing & Distribution Strategy, Competitive Intelligence/Benchmarking, Marketing Strategy, Pricing & Reimbursement, R&D Productivity.
    

EvaluatePharma® is the premier source for commercial analysis in the pharma and biotech sector, delivering exclusive, trusted insight into industry performance. For industry insiders and the investment sector, EvaluatePharma® supports value-enhancing business decisions with unrivalled proprietary insight.

EvaluatePharma® sets new industry standards by providing consensus forecasts on global drug sales. Our expertise and innovative approach has driven other pioneering developments including Merge Company tool, Calendar of Events and interactive NPV Analyzer.

But it's not just our expertise that sets us apart. The reliability of our data and depth of coverage provide clients with commercial insights simply not available anywhere else.
    

Founded more than 30 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company, a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group, has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif. For additional information about the company, please visit http://www.gene.com.

    

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) manages the world’s leading expert network and provides software and services to support a marketplace for expertise. GLG's unparalleled network of leading expert consultants, known as the GLG CouncilsSM, includes more than 175,000 subject matter experts and many key opinion leaders (KOLs)who educate and provide insight to decision makers worldwide. Healthcare companies use GLG to accelerate business development research and gather superior market intelligence. GLG’s expertise reaches every sector of the healthcare industry, from the mid-sized and most specialized organizations to some of the largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare services, and medical device and supply companies in the world.
    

IntraLinks® provides enterprise-class solutions which facilitate the secure, compliant and auditable exchange of critical information, collaboration and workflow management inside and outside the enterprise. Our on-demand solutions help you organize, manage, share and track information, enabling you to accelerate your workflow, optimize your business processes and realize new profit potential. Since 1997, IntraLinks has been used on critical business processes by more than 750,000 users from 90,000 organizations worldwide, including 10 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and hundreds of biotechs. IntraLinks counts 800 of the Fortune 1000 as clients, including enterprises such as AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and the FDIC. For more information, visit www.intralinks.com.

    

Founded in 1876, Eli Lilly and Company is now the 10th largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Lilly has steadfastly remained independent, but not isolated. Across the globe, Lilly has developed productive alliances and partnerships that advance our capacity to develop innovative medicines at lower costs. Lilly is consistently ranked as one of the best companies in the world to work for, and generations of Lilly employees have sustained a culture that values excellence, integrity, and respect for people. Lilly's global employees number approximately 40,000, and our medicines are marketed in 143 countries. Lilly has major research and development facilities in eight countries and conducts clinical trials in more than 50 countries. Lilly makes medicines that help people live longer, healthier, more active lives.

    

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world's largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management.

Roche's personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients.

In 2008, Roche had over 80,000 employees worldwide and invested almost 9 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 45.6 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.

For more information: www.roche.com.

    

Sanofi-aventis, a leading global pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and distributes therapeutic solutions to address the world’s expanding healthcare needs. We work to prevent and treat the diseases that we know of today, as well as those we may face tomorrow. With approximately 100,000 dedicated professionals in more than 100 countries, sanofi-aventis is devoted to advancing healthcare around the world. We are committed to maintaining the innovative approach to pharmaceuticals established by our parent company, headquartered in Paris, France. Our U.S. affiliate, with headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, employs approximately 15,000 professionals located at 16 sites throughout the country. Sanofi-aventis, U.S. is a dynamic healthcare organization working to meet the needs of physicians and their patients.

At sanofi-aventis, each and every day we work for what really matters: health.
    

Upsher-Smith is continually looking for strong and trusted partnerships through licensing, joint ventures, profit sharing, co-development and comarketing arrangements. Upsher-Smith has a unique & effective U.S. commercialization strategy through a wide, multi-channel distribution network, experienced sales force and established customer base within all customer segments.

Looking to the future, Upsher-Smith is focused on:
  • Building the current pipeline of ANDA's, 505(b)2, and other low-cost alternative products
  • Adding women’s health products ready for immediate or near-term commercialization and promotion to OB/GYNs
  • Developing, in-licensing and acquiring CNS products focused primarily on treatments for epilepsy & Parkinson’s disease.
Upsher-Smith is committed to the development and growth of innovative products. Our focus is simple: Advancing pharmacotherapy. Improving life.™
    

Over 25 years, ZS Associates has helped clients in more than 70 countries measurably improve their results, through our comprehensive expertise in sales and marketing consulting, capability building, and outsourcing. Our clients include multinational, midsize and entrepreneurial companies around the world, with a deep and long-standing emphasis on the healthcare sector, and the pharma/biotech sector in particular. Through our business development and licensing practice area, we support both large and small pharma/biotech companies with services ranging from strategic portfolio evaluation and business development strategy to evaluation of specific potential partners and deals. ZS has more than 1,000 professionals serving clients from 17 offices worldwide. (www.zsassociates.com)