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Shanghai Allist Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd is an innovative drug company in the field of cancer treatment.

Abbott India Ltd is a drug manufacturing company that offers products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Its patient focus centers overwhelmingly on women's health and gastrointestine, gastroenterology, and hepatic care. Geographically, the majority of the company's revenue is generated in India.

Veradermics Inc clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutics to address pervasive treatment challenges in highly prevalent aesthetic and dermatological conditions. The company operates in a single segment of allocating resources, assessing performance, and making operating decisions.

Scholar Rock Holding Corp is a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of children and adults with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other rare, severe, and debilitating neuromuscular diseases. Its pipeline candidates include apitegromab and a subcutaneous formulation of apitegromab. The clinical-stage pipeline also includes SRK-439, an investigational subcutaneously administered fully human anti-pro/latent myostatin antibody with high inhibitory potency and selectivity toward myostatin, being developed for the treatment of rare neuromuscular diseases. The company also maintains early-stage programs focused on therapies for rare, severe, and debilitating neuromuscular diseases.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the identification, acquisition, development, and commercialization of novel therapies for debilitating rare and orphan diseases. Its product, Livmarli, a novel, orally administered, minimally-absorbed ileal bile acid transporter IBAT) inhibitor (IBATi), is approved for the treatment of cholestatic pruritus in patients with Alagille syndrome (ALGS). It is involved in the development of Maralixibat for the treatment of pediatric patients with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, or PFIC, and Alagille syndrome, or ALGS. The company is also involved in the development of volixibat for the treatment of adult patients with cholestatic liver diseases.

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and acquiring technologies that aid in creating medicine. The company has partnerships and license agreements with various pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Ligand's business model is based on drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation, and partnerships. The company's revenue consists of three primary elements: royalties from commercialized products, license and milestone payments, and sale of its trademarked Captisol material.

Apotex Health Corp is a Canadian-based health company with a broad portfolio of generic, biosimilar and branded pharmaceuticals, as well as branded consumer health and wellness products. Its business lines include Conventional Generics, Specialty Generics and Brands & Biosimilars. The maximum revenue is derived from the Conventional Generics business, which are off-patent, small molecule oral solid dose pharmaceuticals that are bioequivalent to branded pharmaceuticals. It has three geographic operating segments: (i) Canada; (ii) the U.S.; and (iii) International. The majority of revenue is derived from Canada.

Belite Bio Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical drug development company focused on novel therapeutics targeting untreatable eye diseases involving retinal degeneration such as atrophic age-related macular degeneration and autosomal recessive Stargardt disease or STGD1, both of which progressively to permanent blindness, and metabolic diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, type 2 diabetes, or T2D, and gout.

Kodiak Sciences Inc is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in novel therapeutics to treat high-prevalence retinal diseases. The product candidate of the company is BLA, which is a novel antibody biopolymer conjugate, in treatment-naive subjects with neovascular wet AMD. The pipeline products of the company include Tarcocimab tedromer, KSI-501, and KSI-101.

Gland Pharma Ltd is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of complex injectables. The company's key molecules include Heparin Sodium Injection, Enoxaparin Sodium Injection, Rocuronium Bromide Injection, and Daptomycin Injection, among others. The group is also involved in a vast range of therapeutic categories, including Anti-Infectives, Anesthetics, Anti-Coagulants and their Antidotes, Anti-Malarials, Cardiology, and more, to Hormones and related Drugs, Fertility Supplements, and GnRH Agonists and Antagonists. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the USA, and the rest from Europe, India, Canada, Australia, and other regions.

Immunovant Inc is a clinical-stage immunology company dedicated to enabling normal lives for people with autoimmune diseases. Its focus is on developing IMVT-1402, a potential inhibitor of the neonatal fragment crystallizable receptor (FcRn), to address autoimmune diseases driven by high levels of pathogenic immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies. FcRn is involved in preventing the degradation of IgG antibodies, and inhibition of FcRn has been shown to reduce levels of total IgG and pathogenic IgG antibodies. The company operates in a single operating segment, which includes all activities related to the research, development and manufacturing of its product candidates.

Cogent Biosciences Inc a biotechnology company focused on developing precision therapies for genetically defined diseases. It designs rational precision therapies that treat the underlying cause of disease and improve the lives of patients. Its program CGT9486, is a selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor designed to potently inhibit the KIT D816V mutation as well as other mutations in KIT exon 17. In the vast majority of cases, KIT D816V is responsible for driving Systemic Mastocytosis (SM), a serious disease caused by the unchecked proliferation of mast cells. Exon 17 mutations are also found in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a type of cancer with dependence on oncogenic KIT signaling.

Biocon Biologics is an Indian biosimilars company headquartered in Bengaluru and a subsidiary of the listed group Biocon Limited. It develops, manufactures and sells biosimilar medicines in diabetes, oncology and immunology, including insulin, trastuzumab and pegfilgrastim products, in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia and emerging markets. The business grew out of Biocon's insulin work that began in the early 2000s and was set up as a separate unit before outside investors including True North, Tata Capital Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs, ADQ and Serum Institute Life Sciences bought minority stakes between 2020 and 2023. In 2022 it acquired the global biosimilars business of its former partner Viatris, which gave it its own commercial network in developed markets. Revenue crossed USD 1 billion in the year to March 2024. In December 2025 Biocon Limited announced a plan to absorb the company and buy out the remaining minority holders through a share swap.

Anthem Biosciences Ltd is an innovation-driven and technology-focused Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) with fully integrated operations spanning across drug discovery, development and manufacturing. It is one of the few companies in India with integrated New Chemical Entity (NCE) and New Biological Entity (NBE) capabilities across drug discovery, development, and commercial manufacturing. As a one-stop service provider, It serves a range of customers, encompassing innovator-focused emerging biotech and large pharmaceutical companies globally.

Biocon Ltd is a biopharmaceutical company that develops biotechnology therapies for diseases. The company is focused on developing, manufacturing, and supplying novel and biosimilar pharmaceuticals for diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune conditions. Biocon has four reportable segments: Biosimilars which derives maximum revenue, Generics, Novel Biologics (Novels), and Research services (Research). The company provides integrated contract research and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies through its subsidiary Syngene. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from its customers located in India and the rest from Brazil, Singapore, and the rest of the world.

LEO Pharma is a Ballerup-headquartered pharmaceutical company focused on medical dermatology. It develops therapies for psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, actinic keratosis, and other skin ailments. Key products include calcipotriol/betamethasone dipropionate combinations, IL-17 inhibitors, and topical treatments. Research occurs at facilities in Denmark, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The firm distributes in over 100 countries through direct subsidiaries and licensing agreements. Founded in 1908.

Biomat USA is a network of plasma collection centers operated by Grifols producing source plasma for therapies treating hemophilia, immune deficiencies, and trauma. Centers in the United States offer donor compensation and community support programs, contributing to global supplies of albumin, immunoglobulins, and clotting factors.

Intas Pharmaceuticals is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, that develops, manufactures and markets generic and branded formulations, active ingredients and biosimilars. It was founded by Hasmukh Chudgar in 1977 and incorporated in 1985, and it is controlled by the Chudgar family, with Temasek and ChrysCapital as minority investors and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority joining in 2022. It operates 22 manufacturing plants, 17 of them in India, and employs more than 25,000 people. Its Accord Healthcare subsidiary, which bought the Actavis UK and Ireland generics business in FY2017, gives it a large European business: in FY2022 Europe contributed about 39% of consolidated turnover, India 33% and the United States about 16%. ICRA reported consolidated operating income of Rs 18,416 crore for FY2022 and Rs 20,086 crore for FY2023, and ranked Intas seventh in the Indian pharmaceutical market in FY2022. Revenue comes from product sales, with specialty medicines such as oncology and biosimilars an increasing focus.