Membership

Any corporation, or subsidiary, division or unit thereof, significantly engaged in the manufacture and marketing of finished dosage form ethical pharmaceutical or biological products under his or its own brand names for the cure, alleviation, mitigation, treatment, prevention or diagnosis of disease, and significantly engaged in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical or biological research and development of new molecular entities or new therapies, preventative, or in vivo diagnostics, or new systems of therapy, prevention, or diagnosis and who will continue to conduct such research and development.

Associates shall be corporations, or subsidiaries, divisions or units thereof, not eligible for membership under Members above, who are:

1. Significantly engaged in research and development on their own behalf or as a provider of contract research and development services to companies meeting the definition of Member, directly related to the development or production of ethical pharmaceutical or biological products for the cure, alleviation, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease.
2. Significantly engaged in the manufacture of intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredient, or finished dosage form ethical pharmaceutical or biological products.

Associates shall have all the rights, privileges and duties prescribed by the Business Plan, and such other rights, privileges and duties as the Management Team may from time to time establish by resolution, except the right to vote.

Affiliates shall be corporations, or subsidiaries, divisions or units thereof, not eligible for membership as Members or Associates above, who are:

1. Engaged in research and development that significantly overlaps with ethical pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical or biological research and development including but not limited to: agrochemicals, animal health, new modalities/technologies, scientific consumables, biomass, and metabolite production.
2. Directly involved in the supply chain for the manufacture of ethical pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical products such that pre-competitive collaboration within the green chemistry/green biopharma space would be mutually beneficially and result in an overall smaller environmental footprint.

Affiliates shall have all the rights, privileges and duties prescribed by the Business Plan, and such other rights, privileges and duties as the Management Team may from time to time establish by resolution, except the right to vote.