As the biotechnology industry matures, more and more products are moving from the laboratory to the marketplace. Bioscience companies throughout North Carolina are developing or manufacturing a great variety of products to improve our health and quality of life.
The following list is a sampling of these products. It was derived from the Directory of Bioscience and Related Companies in North Carolina published by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
- Ajinomoto USA
- of Raleigh makes amino acids which are used in food, feed and pharmaceutical products.
- Bayer CropScience
- of Research Triangle Park makes agricultural products for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of problems in plants and animals. A Clayton site is focused on pesticide research.
- BD Diagnostics
- of Burlington and Durham makes diagnostic tests for STD and cervical cancer screening.
- Biogen Idec
- of Research Triangle Park makes Avonex® and Tysabri®, treatments for multiple sclerosis, Rituxan® and many other products.
- bioMerieux Inc.
- of Durham makes pregnancy, fertility and infectious disease tests and other products for public health.
- Corn Products International
- of Winston-Salem makes starches, sweeteners, oils and other ingredients by processing corn.
- Diosynth Biotechnology
- of Research Triangle Park provides drug development and contract-manufacturing services to the biopharmaceutical industry.
- DSM Pharmaceuticals
- of Greenville is a contract manufacturer of drugs and drug ingredients.
- Eisai
- of Research Triangle Park develops and manufactures human health products, including Aricept®, a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- EnSolve Biosystems
- of Raleigh develops and manufactures biotreatment products and biomechanical oily water separators for bilge water cleanup.
- Ethicon
- of Raleigh makes adhesives that close cuts and wounds and prevent infection.
- GlaxoSmithKline
- of Research Triangle Park manufactures respiratory and migraine drugs, and the flu drug Relenza® at its Zebulon facility.
- Greer Laboratories
- of Lenoir makes allergy immunotherapy testing and treatment materials for human and veterinary health and provides contract development services.
- Hybrizyme
- of Raleigh makes assays for environmental and food toxicants, including PCB food-test kits, TCDD test kits and PCB soil-test kits.
- JABB of the Carolinas
- of Pine Level makes fungus-derived bio-insecticides.
- Laboratory Corp. of America
- of Burlington provides clinical and anatomical laboratory services, including clinical trials testing services, and offers a broad range of genomic/esoteric tests.
- LipoScience
- of Raleigh makes the NMR LipoProfile®, a specialized cholesterol test.
- Medtox Diagnostics
- of Burlington makes screening tests for biological substances and drug abuse.
- Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries
- of Clayton makes injectable insulin, growth hormone, hemostasis management and hormone replacement therapy products.
- Novozymes North America
- of Franklinton makes industrial enzymes for use in detergents and in baking.
- Pfizer Poultry Health
- of Research Triangle Park makes poultry vaccines at its Maxton plant and licenses Inovoject®, its automated egg-injection system.
- PhytoMyco Research
- of Greenville compiles natural product-extract libraries and combinatorial biology libraries.
- Pisgah Labs
- of Pisgah Forest is a contract manufacturer of drugs and materials for clinical trials.
- PPD
- of Research Triangle Park provides drug development services, including preclinical laboratory, clinical operations and medical communications.
- Quintiles Transnational
- of Durham is one of the world’s largest contract research organizations serving the pharmaceutical industry.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals
- of Morrisville makes pharmaceutical products for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases such as Colazal® for ulcerative colitis.
- Stovall Life Science
- of Greensboro makes instruments and devices for molecular and cell biology research.
- Syngenta Crop Protection
- of Greensboro makes crop-protection and seed products.
- Touch Scientific
- of Raleigh makes the Touch Tear MicroAssay System, a diagnostic for the ophthalmic market.
- Trimeris
- of Durham makes therapeutic agents for the treatment of viral disease, such as Fuzeon®, a fusion inhibitor for HIV treatment.
- United Therapeutics
- of Research Triangle Park makes a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension at this clinical development center.
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
- of Sanford develops and manufactures pediatric vaccines such as Prevnar® and Meningitec®.
- Xenobiotic Detection Systems
- of Durham makes assays that analyze environmental pollutants.
- Zen-Bio
- of Research Triangle Park performs contract testing and develops diagnostics and cell culture systems to support pharmaceutical research.