List of biotechnology companies

Rank 2006	Company	Country	Revenue in 2006 (USD millions)	Employees in 2006
1	Amgen	USA	14,268.0	20,100
2	Genentech	USA	9,284.0	10,533
3	Genzyme	USA	3,187.0	9,000+
4	UCB	Belgium	3,169.6	8,477
5	Gilead Sciences	USA	3,026.1	7,575
6	Serono	Switzerland	2,804.9	4,775
7	Biogen Idec	USA	2,683.0	3,750
8	CSL	Australia	2,148.3	2,895
9	Cephalon	USA	1,764.1	2,515
10	MedImmune	USA	1,276.8	2,359
11	Celgene	USA	898.9	1,864
12	Abraxis BioScience	USA	765.5	1,734
13	Actelion	Switzerland	754.6	1,550
14	ImClone Systems	USA	677.8	1,287
16	Amylin Pharmaceuticals	USA	510.9	1,100
17	Millennium Pharmaceuticals	USA	486.8	1,073
18	PDL BioPharma	USA	414.8	993
19	OSI Pharmaceuticals	USA	375.7	962
20	MGI Pharma	USA	342.8	947
21	Pharmion	USA	238.6	793
22	Nektar Therapeutics	USA	217.7	770
23	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	USA	216.4	760
24	Biocon	India	200.3	1,838
25	Cubist Pharmaceuticals	USA	194.7	746
26	Enzon Pharmaceuticals	USA	185.7	722
27	QLT	Canada	175.1	653
28	ViroPharma	USA	167.2	651
29	Alkermes	USA	166.6	617
30	Crucell	Netherlands	165.3	611
31	United Therapeutics	USA	159.6	585
32	LifeCell	USA	141.7	573
33	Ligand Pharmaceuticals	USA	141.0	540
34	Myriad Genetics	USA	114.3	511
35	Exelixis	USA	98.7	500
36	Cangene	Canada	96.8	498
37	InterMune	USA	90.8	492
38	Nabi Biopharmaceuticals	USA	89.9	487
39	BioMarin Pharmaceutical	USA	84.2	417
40	Lexicon Pharmaceuticals	USA	72.8	410
41	Progenics Pharmaceuticals	USA	69.9	410
42	Innogenetics	Belgium	67.5	371
43	Idenix Pharmaceuticals	USA	67.4	359
44	MorphoSys	Germany	66.6	336
45	Omrix Biopharmaceuticals	USA	63.8	335
46	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals	USA	63.4	323
47	Acambis	UK	57.0	285
48	Tanox	USA	56.1	285
49	ViaCell	USA	54.4	282
50	Indevus Pharmaceuticals	USA	50.5	279