I can say, with full confidence, that I am glad I saved this stop for last…well technically second to last (even though I am considering Biotech 2009 an exploration in and of itself). The Grand Centrifugium Assembly is more than pleased with everything I’ve researched so far, however once they receive my transmission on Great Valley, they will surely promote me to 1st DNA Bioscience Explorer Extraordinaire, the highest honor I can receive on Beakeris.
My exploration of Great Valley began at a company called Cephalon. I now can understand why it’s considered a true Pennsylvania bioscience success story. My report includes information on how Cephalon was founded in 1987 as a biotech start-up and has grown into one of the world’s top ten biopharmaceutical companies. In just over 20 years they have gone from having three employees and no revenue, to more than 3,000 employees and just over $1.94 billion in revenue. Their product pipeline amazed even my Helix Brain…It includes eight proprietary products in the U.S. and more than 30 products internationally for central nervous system disorders, pain, and cancer. Cephalon’s Chairman and CEO, Dr. Frank Baldino, Jr., is definitely a leader in the bioscience industry.
As I made my way up the #29 transportation route I wondered to myself…”Where is the sign that says ‘Welcome to Innovation Country?’” The diversity of companies in this region of the state is incredible. From global pharmaceutical, to small biotech startups, to midsize emerging bioscience companies…it’s a cornucopia of bioscience delights! I navigated my Helixpod into the Great Valley Corporate Center…the place where companies like Fujirebio Diagnostics, sanofi-aventis, Orthovita, and Puresyn call home. I made my way around the complex, slowly first, but then speeding up as my anticipation of exploring these companies grew and grew. I could only imagine, but I think I felt like a child does on their birthday…with the excitement of opening up their gifts, accompanied by the feeling of uncertainty as to what’s inside.
My first stop in the Great Valley Corporate Center was Fujirebio Diagnostics, a world leader in the production of in vitro diagnostics and biomarkers that are being distributed worldwide by leading healthcare organizations. I couldn’t believe what this company had to offer….truly innovative! Then it was off to Orthovita, an orthobiologics and biosurgery company that develops and markets novel medical devices. Their orthobiologics platform offers products for the fusion, regeneration, and fixation of human bone….amazing…just amazing! After I left Orthovita, I stepped into the ring with two SUMOs…that is the prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein expression platforms, SUMOstar and SUMOpro, that LifeSensors manufactures. LifeSensors is a biotechnology company that discovers and develops enabling technologies for therapeutic, drug discovery and research markets. I just can’t get over this…every direction I turn…bioscience...is this all a mirage? Should I pinch myself and see if I wake up…actually…on second thought…if this is all a dream…why would I want to wake up?
I navigated my way out of the Great Valley Corporate Center, but not without first visiting Puresyn, a separations and purification contract manufacturing company that develops, manufactures, and markets state-of-the-art products and services for the separation and purification of nucleic acids and other biological molecules. They use a proprietary polymer technology, PolyFlo, which is an inert and irregularly shaped, non-porous polymer resin…exactly what I was talking about earlier…innovation and technology everywhere around me!
I was ready to start the thrusters on my Helixpod when an alert crossed my screen…Last Chance to Register for Biotech 2009…it was another email alert…trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of why I was receiving these I traced it back to its data source…my computer ran a data information track and immediately populated the results…CLOSEST PROBABLE DATA SOURCE = Pennsylvania Bio…DISTANCE FROM CURRENT POSITION = .08 miles…
To be continued
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