Quiz 1-Biomedical Companies Flashcards
What is the largest biomedical company in Australia, how many people do they employ, and what do they do?
CSL are a pharmaceutical company. They Employ 7600 people a year and their cap is $51bill
Name 3 areas of CSL
- Pharmaceuticals (Behring)
- Diagnostics (CSL Biotherapies)
- Human plasma derivatives (Bioplasma)
Name some type of pharmaceuticals,and vaccines that CSL is involved in
Pharmaceuticals: EpiPen
Vaccines: Hepatitis A, Tetanus, flu vaccine
What is Australias 2nd largest Biomedical Company and 1st largest Medical Device Company? How many people, what do they do, how rich are they?
Resmed. Employ 3000 people. Sleep Apnoea devices. Capitalised at $9Bill
Where are the 2 main Resmed factories?
Singapore and Australia
What is Australia’s third largest Biomedical Engineering company? What do they do? How big are they in terms of Australia’s medical Device companies. What percentage of the global cochlear Implant market does it have?
Cochlear. Bionic ear Implants. $7bill. Has 2500 employees. Cochlear is Australia’s second largest medical device company. Has 70% of the global market.
What is Australias 4th Largest Biomedical Engineering Company? How much does it earn?
Sirtex Medical. $1.6bill market cap.
What does Sirtex Medical do? How does its treatment work?
Oncology -cancer treatment. Supplies the only treatment for liver cancer that works. Injects radioactive microspheres which emit a safe(1cm) beta radiation with a short half life of a few days. Because it’s injected into the hepatic artery, the concentration of the radiation is 6 times higher in the tumour than in the regular liver tissue.
What is the 5th biggest Biomedical Company in Australia? What does it do?
Nanosonics. It’s a medical device company dealing with infection control. It’s market cap is at $0.67bill.
It deals with the manufacture and commercialisation of infection control and decontamination products and related technologies.
Provides products for preventing healthcare-acquired infections
What is Australias sixth largest Biomedical Engineering company? What does it do?
Mesoblast. Stem Cell Technology. Market cap at $0.42bill.
It’s developing series of high margin, off the shelf adult stem cell products that are obtained from a single donor, commercially expanded and frozen, and then used in thousands of unrelated recipients at the time and place of need.
What does Medtronic do?
Medtronic-450 employees in aus
Global leader in medical device technology (pacemakers, DBS, spinal technology, artificial pancreas)
What does St Jude do?
200 employees in Australia
Similar focus to Medtronic.
What does Johnson and Johnson do?
Biggest orthopaedics company in the world.
Produce pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, cosmetics as well as orthopaedics.
