Floyd E. Bloom

Veterans Administration Medical Center provides healthcare services. The private company is based in San Diego, CA.

MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and commercializes anti-infective drug products. It operates mainly in prescription pharmaceuticals. MiddleBrook's main product is PULSYS. PULSYS technology offers the prolonged release and absorption of a drug. The company was incorporated in December 1999 and is headquartered in Westlake, TX.

GlaxoSmithKline LLC engages in discovering, developing, and delivering medicines, vaccines, and other healthcare products. It offers prescription medicines that treat various diseases, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, herpes, asthma, migraine, and heart diseases, as well as stomach and skin problems, infections, and flu. It also provides vaccines for children and adults; and over-the-counter products. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Elan Pharmaceuticals LLC develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It specializes in treatment of neurological and autoimmune diseases. The firm's drugs are used in the treatment of for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and rheumatoid arthritis diseases. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Saegis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed drug therapeutics. Its phase II SGS742 clinical drug treated diseases such as mild cognitive impairment and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Its second SGS742 clinical trial provided coronary artery bypass surgery. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Half Moon Bay, CA.

LZ Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel differentiated products for the treatment of neurological disorders. It provides therapeutics to improve patient outcomes, including improved symptom control and potential disease modification. The company was founded by Jay S. Schneider in 2005 and is headquartered in Chester, PA.

Alkermes, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The company was founded by Michael A. Wall, Floyd E. Bloom, Frederick W. K. Brown, Paul R. Schimmel and Alexander G. Rich in 1987 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

AgeneBio, Inc. develops an innovative therapeutics for unserved patients afflicted with neurological and psychiatric diseases to preserve and restore brain function. It research focused on cognitive neuroscience and the neurobiology of the aging brain with most advanced clinical program targets amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), the symptomatic, pre-dementia stage of Alzheimer’s. The company was founded by Michela Gallagher in 2008 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

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