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BioTech Industry Overview

Global

Amount

Units

Year

Source

Public & Private Biotech Companies

4,275

Companies

2006

E&Y

Public Biotech Companies

710

Companies

2006

E&Y

Revenues

73.5

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Increase from 2005

14

%

2006

E&Y

R&D Expenses

27.8

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Net Income

-5.4

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Number of Employees

190.5

Thousand

2006

E&Y

Total Pharmaceutical Sales, Worldwide

643.0

Bil. US$

2006

IMS

Total R&D Expenses, PhRMA Member Companies

43.0

Bil. US$

2006

PhRMA

Total R&D Expenses, All Pharmaceutical Companies

55.2

Bil. US$

2006

Burrill

U.S.

Public & Private Biotech Companies

1,452

Companies

2006

E&Y

Public Biotech Companies

336

Companies

2006

E&Y

Revenues

55.5

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

R&D Expenses

22.9

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Net Income

-3.5

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Number of Employees

130.6

Thousand

2006

E&Y

Total Biotech Company Financing

20.3

Bil. US$

2006

E&Y

Pharmaceutical Sales1, Domestic

174.7

Bil. US$

2006

PhRMA

% Generic (by volume)

58

%

2007

PhRMA

Pharmaceutical Sales1, Foreign2

71.1

Bil. US$

2006

PhRMA

Branded Biotech Drug Sales, U.S.

40.3

Bil. US$

2006

IMS

Prescriptions Filled, U.S., 12 month period ending Sept.

3.6

Bil.

2005

PhRMA

Total Pharmaceutical Company Spending on R&D1

43.0

Bil. US$

2006

PhRMA

as a Percentage of All Sales1

16.9

%

2005

PhRMA

Share of R&D Spending by Function:

Prehuman/Preclinical

25.7

%

2005

PhRMA

Phase I

5.8

%

2005

PhRMA

Phase II

11.7

%

2005

PhRMA

Phase III

25.5

%

2005

PhRMA

Approval

6.9

%

2005

PhRMA

Phase IV

13.3

%

2005

PhRMA

Uncategorized

11.0

%

2005

PhRMA

Average Time Required for Clinical Trials, from Discovery through Phase IV

16

Years

2007

PhRMA

Average Cost of Developing a Biologic Drug

1.2

Bil. US$

2005

Tufts

Number of FDA Approvals for New Drugs (NDAs)

101

Approvals

2006

FDA

Number of Approvals for New Molecular Entities (NMEs)

22

Approvals

2006

FDA

Patents Granted for "Multicellular Living Organisms and Unmodified Parts Thereof" Since 1970

5,644

Patents

2005

USPTO

Total Requested Proposed for Biological Science Research, U.S. National Science Foundation

633.0

Mil. US$

2008

NSF

Average Annual Salary for Biochemists & Biophysicists

80,900

US$

May-06

BLS

1 PhRMA Member Companies. 2 Not including foreign divisions of foreign companies.
E&Y = Ernst & Young; PhRMA = Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association; Burrill = Burrill & Company; IMS = IMS Health; Tufts = Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development; FDA = U.S. Food & Drug Administration; USPTO = U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; NSF = U.S. National Science Foundation; BLS = U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2008
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