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Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers, develops and commercializes small molecule drugs. It develops molecule drugs to treat life-threatening diseases, with a particular emphasis in oncology. The firm drug discovery platform, STAND has delivered a diverse portfolio of drug candidates that target the multiple pathways critical for the support, maintenance of cancer cells and that address unmet medical needs with substantial markets. The company was founded in 1997 by Thomas James Farrell and Daniel Douglas Von Hoff and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops pharmaceutical products. Its products include Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) tablets, Latuda (lurasidone HCl) tablets, Lunesta (eszopiclone) tablets, Xopenex (levalbuterol HCl) Inhalation Solution, Xopenex HFA (levalbuterol tartrate) Inhalation Aerosol, Brovana (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution, Omnaris (ciclesonide) Nasal Spray, Alvesco (ciclesonide) Inhalation Aerosol, and Zetonna (ciclesonide) Nasal Aerosol. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Sumitovant Biopharma, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers oncology, gene therapy, rare, pulmonary, urological disease, digital innovation and novel platforms. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sanderling Management CO LLC (Sanderling Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979 by Robert G. McNeil. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Coley Pharmaceutical GmbH is a German company that provides research and development in the field of natural sciences, engineering, agricultural sciences and medicine. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. The company was founded by Heather L. Davis.

Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. manufactures drugs to treat chronic diseases. The company discovers and develops receptors therapeutic candidates for cancers, asthma, and allergic disorders. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA

FutuRx Ltd (FutuRx ) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Ness Ziona.

BioMed X GmbH is an independent research institute that conducts biomedical pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, and diagnostics. The private company is based in Heidelberg, Germany. The German company sponsors these projects with pharmaceutical partners such as Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, and Roche. Talented early-career scientists from all over the world are recruited to work on these projects. The company combines crowdsourcing with local incubation to provide creative solutions to big biomedical research challenges. Each research team has access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and is guided by experienced mentors from academia and industry. The company was founded in 2013 by Christian Tidona, who has been the CEO since 2013.

KAHR Medical Ltd. develops novel fusion protein pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Its drug pipeline is built around the signal converter proteins a unique class of multi-functional therapeutic agents that convert signals sent from one cell to another. The firm?s therapeutic proteins integrate two functional units, enabling each one to elicit multiple cooperative functional endpoints. The company was founded by Mark L. Tykocinski in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Amarna Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company developing SVac viral gene delivery vector platform. The firm has developed a proprietary SuperVero cell line and SVec gene delivery platform for the development of safe and efficient immunotherapies for major indications within the degenerative, inflammatory and autoimmune disease areas. The company was founded by Ben van Leent and Peter de Haan in 2008 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Vesalius Biocapital Partners SARL (Vesalius Biocapital Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Stéphane Verdood. The firm is headquartered in Luxembourg.

BioMedx Group, Inc. operates as a medical technology company transforming the cosmetic surgery consultation services. The firm engages in product development focus on the modeling and simulation of the human face for aesthetic and facial reconstruction applications. The company was founded by Rudy A. Mazzocchi and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

The Institut Pasteur is a private non-profit foundation which contributes to the prevention and treatment of disease, through research, education, and public health activities. The firm was founded in 1887, and is based in Paris.

Humedics GmbH operates as a research-based medtech company. It focuses on rapid and precise lover function measurement using LiMax, a breath analysis technology. The company was founded by Martin Stockman, Erwin de Bujizer, and Karsten Heyne in 2009 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH engages in the development, manufacture, and packaging of medicines, as well as pharmaceutical products. It also focuses on the research into the causes of diseases and the search for its drug treatment. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Amakem NV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It uses kinase inhibitors for treatments of bowel, eye, and lung diseases. The company was founded by Jack Elands, Dirk Leysen, Olivier Raynald Defert, and Nadya Kaval on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Rigontec GmbH provides RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases. The firm develops a compound stimulating the immune receptor retinoic acid-inducible gene. The company was founded by Annegret de Baey-Diepolder, Gunther Hartmann, Anna Schwickart, Marcel Renn, Christine Schuberth-Wagner and Veit Hornung in 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Complix NVengages in the development of biopharmaceutical company developing Alphabodies, a pipeline of transformative protein therapeutics. The Company is currently focusing its internal research and development activities on oncology and autoimmune diseases. Its therapeutic Alphabodies focuses on the treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and multiple sclerosis, and infectious diseases, and viral diseases such as influenza, HIV, and RSV. The company was founded by Mark Vaeck and Ignace Lasters in 2008 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Trinean NV develops and produces nanoliter spectrophotometers and consumables. Its products include DropSense96, Xpose, and spectral content profiling. The firm covers both microfluidic structures and multi-channel spectrometry for microliter sample handling. The company was founded by Ronny Baeckstaele and Kris Naessens in 2006 and is headquartered in Gentbrugge, Belgium.

Merck Serono SA operates as a holding company in the pharmaceutical field. It engages in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of therapeutic products for the treatment of human diseases. The company was founded on May 21, 1987 and is headquartered in Coinsins, Switzerland.

Exact Imaging, Inc. provides high resolution micro-ultrasound systems enabling real-time imaging and guided biopsies in the urological market for prostate cancer. Its ExactVu micro-ultrasound platform operates at 29 MHz and enables a whole new level of resolution with the benefits of ease of use, affordability, and being an extension of the current urological workflow. The company was founded by Sam Ifergan and Randy AuCoin in 2013 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (IBB Ventures) is the wholly-owned venture capital subsidiary of Investitionsbank Berlin. The firm was founded in 1997 to foster the development of regional businesses in selected areas and to strengthen the local labor market. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Scienion AG develops and provides DNA biochips and protein microarrays. It provides its customers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostic and reagent supply markets, as well as in academic research institutions with products, and services to facilitate confidence and efficiency in aspects of its applications. The company was founded by Holger Eickhoff in 2000 and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

BIO Deutschland is a business association for the biotechnology industry. The private company is based in Berlin, Germany. The German company was founded by Peter Heinrich, Horst Domdey. Viola Bronsema has been the CEO of the company since 2006.

Part of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Pharma Animal Health Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that manufactures and supplies pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, food additives, veterinary medicines, and diagnostics. The company is based in Osaka, Japan and was founded in 2010.

Augure SA develops and provides public relations and reputation management software. It offers cloud-based solutions for influencer marketing, communications content distribution, audience interaction, social media monitoring, brand impact metrics, and real-time market data analysis. The company was founded by Michael Jais, Fabien Barzic, and Gilles Andre in 2002 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

GO Capital SAS (GO Capital) is an independent French private equity firm founded 2003 and is headquartered in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande. Formerly known as Grand Ouest Gestion SAS, the firm's investors include regional and cooperative banks, Natixis and CDC PME.GO Capital is located in Rennes and focuses primarily on the northwest quarter of France, also known as Grand Ouest, which comprises the Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Pays de la Loire and Basse Normandie regions. The firm manages the Ouest Ventures fund.

Tolero Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products. It is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a single-minded purpose to alleviate human suffering through the development of medicines to treat cancer and other serious human diseases. The company is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

WMT AG is a German research company that specializes in developing cancer therapies. WMT was founded in 2020 by Yves Guillermet and Claus Kremoser, with Claus Kremoser serving as the CEO since 2020.

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH (HTGF) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.