Chugai Pharmaceutical is a pharmaceutical company. Along with its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the research and development of new prescription medicines and the subsequent manufacturing, marketing and distribution activities. Co. sells its pharmaceutical products to the nationwide appointed stores in Japan, as well as in overseas, such as Germany, the U.K., France, Taiwan, China, South Korea and the U.S. Co., through its subsidiaries, is also involved in the management of research facilities, and the research on drug discovery, as well as the provision of literature research services for pharmaceutical information, and pharmaceutical academic information.

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets products in a single business segment: human pharmaceutical products. The company's human pharmaceutical products include: diabetes and other endocrinology products, immunology products, neuroscience products, oncology products, and other products. The company's diabetes and other endocrinology products include: Baqsimi? and Basaglar?. The company's immunology products include: Olumiant? and Taltz?. The company's neuroscience products include: Cymbalta? and Emgality?. The company's oncology products include: Alimta?, Cyramza?, Erbitux? and Verzenio?. The company's other products include: Cialis?.

Pfizer is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and distributing of healthcare products, including medicines and vaccines. The company manages its commercial operations through three businesses: Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, which includes Oncology, Inflammation and Immunology, Rare Disease, Hospital, Vaccines and Internal Medicine business units, as well as a hospital business unit; Upjohn, which includes the company's solid oral dose brands such as Lyrica, Lipitor, Norvasc, Celebrex, Viagra, and certain generic medicines; and Consumer Healthcare, which is an over-the-counter medicines business.

Viking Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company's main clinical program's drug candidate, VK2809, is an orally available, tissue and receptor-subtype selective agonist of the thyroid hormone receptor beta in development for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. The company's second clinical program's primary drug candidate, VK5211, is an orally available, non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator in development for patients recovering from non-elective hip fracture surgery. The company is also developing VK0214 for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.