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Amgen Rockville, Inc. develops and commercializes antibody-based products. Its product development pipeline includes novel antibodies generated with its BiTE antibody platform, as well as conventional monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Omega Fund Management Ltd. (OFM) is the wholly-owned private equity firm founded by Dr. Otello Stampacchia in 2004. The firm is headquartered in the US.

Micromet AG developed, manufactured and marketed novel antibody derived therapeutics for the treatment and control of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. It's goal was to commercialize products in these indication areas that have significant unmet medical needs. Founded in 1993, the company was headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Trident Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel biologics for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. The company was founded by Charles M. Cohen and Robin Brown in March 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of medicines. The firm’s lead product candidate, omadacycline, is a new tetracycline-derived, broad-spectrum antibiotic being developed for use as a first-line monotherapy for serious community-acquired bacterial infections where antibiotic resistance is of concern for treating physicians. The company was founded by Stuart B. Levy and Walter A. Gilbert on July 3, 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SpineVision SA develops and markets implants for the treatment of spinal disorders. It also designs instrumentation for the spinal treatments. Its products include Flex 2, Lumis, Plus/X-Plus, ULIS, Unithread, Spacevisions, and C3. The firm also offers solutions for spinal pathologies, such as lumbar degenerative disc diseases, deformities, cervical disorders, trauma, and tumors. The company was founded by Gérard Vanacker on July 16, 1999 and is headquartered in Antony, France.

AlpInvest Partners BV (AlpInvest) is a private equity asset subsidiary AP BV, ultimately owned by The Carlyle Group, Inc founded in 2000. AlpInvest Partners BV is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Morphic Therapeutic, Inc. engages in biotechnology drug development activity. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Translate Bio, Inc. engages in the research and development of therapeutic drugs. It focuses on developing medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction. Its lead product candidate, MRT5005 is designed for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. The company was founded by Arthur M. Krieg and Jeannie T. Lee in 2011 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Juno Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of innovative cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer. It offers platforms which includes chimeric antigen receptors and T-cell receptors. The company was founded by Hans Edgar Bishop, Lawrence Corey, Richard D. Klausner, Stan Riddell, Isabelle Riviere, and Robert Taylor Nelsen on August 5, 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Nuvation Bio Operating Co., Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology company developing proprietary therapies focuse on oncology. It portfolio includes Seven Novel and Mechanistically Distinct Oncology Programs, Each with Multiple Drug Development Candidates. The company was founded by David Hung in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and fabricates drugs. The firm’s pipeline products are based on proprietary XTEN half-life extension, Antibody-XTEN-Drug Conjugate, ProTIA pro-drug and bispecific T-cell engager platform technologies. The company was founded by Willem P.C. Stemmer and Volker Schellenberger in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Its lead product candidate, ITCA 650, is currently in development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The firm’s platform technology is a proprietary subcutaneous delivery system that involves a matchstick-size, miniature osmotic pump implanted sub-dermally to provide continuous and consistent drug therapy, and the company’s proprietary formulation technology, which maintains stability of therapeutic proteins and peptides at human body temperatures for long extended periods of time. The company was founded by Mark Moran in June 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BioVex, Inc. develops vaccines for the treatment of cancer and the prevention of chronic infectious diseases. Its products include OncoVEX oncolytic and ImmunoVEX technology. The company was founded in 1999 by Dr. Robert Coffin and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Exonhit is developing and manufacturing novel pharmaceuticals from its expertise in the field of alternative RNA splicing, the process by which a single gene can lead to several proteins. The firm's proprietary gene profiling technology DATAS is utilized to identify genes whose splice variants produce abnormal proteins which may trigger or contribute to the development of disease. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

DeveloGen AG is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of metabolic and endocrine disorders with a particular focus on diabetes. DeveloGen develops highly innovative approaches for the treatment of diabetes and obesity targeting key pathophysiological mechanisms such as insulin resistance and loss of insulin-producing beta cells. DeveloGen's product pipeline includes two programs at advanced stages of lead optimization, a small molecule inhibitor program based on a novel and proprietary target to address insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). A growth factor targeting beta cell regeneration (type 1 and type 2 diabetes). DeveloGen is based in Goettingen, Germany.

Andrew Alliance SA develops liquid handling solutions. Its product, Andrew, is a novel liquid handling robot designed for pipetting process. The firm's products include Andrew models, consumable dominos, protocol design, and enabling accessories. The company was founded by Piero Zucchelli, Giorgio Horak, and Antoine Jordan in March 2011 and is headquartered in Vernier, Switzerland.

Achaogen, Inc. engages in developing and commercializing innovative antibacterial agents for multi-drug resistant gram-negative infections. The firm is also involved in the development of C-Scape, an orally administered antibiotic to address a serious unmet need for an effective oral treatment for patients with complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis caused by extended spectrum beta-lactamases producing Enterobacteriaceae. The company was founded by Nathaniel Eames David, Floyd E. Romesberg, and Peter G. Schultz in June 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc. provides health care services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Omega Alpha SPAC is a blank check company. Its purposes effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded by Otello Stampacchia, Michelle Doig, Francesco Draetta and Vincent Ossipow on October 26, 2020 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture.

Aerium Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that focuses on epidemic and pandemic preparedness. The company is based in Lausanne and has operations in the United States. The company's mission is to discover and develop antibodies and small molecule antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 and other epidemic and pandemic threats. Aerium Therapeutics has a team of world-class scientists and biotechnology veterans, as well as experienced investors. Aerium's lead assets are monoclonal antibodies that show broad activity against important variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron and its subvariants. The company plans to expand its pipeline to antiviral therapeutics in late 2022 and will broaden its focus to other epidemic and pandemic threats in the future. The CEO of the company is Rajeev Venkayya.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.