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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.

Van Herk Investments BV (VHI) is the private equity investment arm of the Van Herk Groep BV, based in Rotterdam. The parent firm was established in the 1950s as a family business with a focus on real estate investments. VHI invests in listed and unlisted firms across diverse sectors primarily in The Netherlands.

Debiopharm International SA operates as a biopharmaceutical development company with focus on biologics and drug evaluation, licensing and development. It formulates and develops products for the treatment of cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroids and hepatitis. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Agendia NV discovers and develops products for clinical management of cancer. It operates as a commercial-stage molecular diagnostic company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of products to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The company was founded by Rene Bernards and Laura van't Veer in 2003 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Van Herk Groep BV provides investment services to the real estate, energy, and life science sectors. The company was founded by Aat van Herk and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Cancer Research UK provides cancer research services. It supports and undertakes research on the biology and causes of cancer and develops anti-cancer drugs. The firm also provides general information about cancer and types of treatments and funds projects that help patients cope with the side effects of cancer and its treatment. Its institute also operates an online portal CancerHelp UK that provides patient information. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Apposite Capital LLP (Apposite Capital) is a private equity arm of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. founded in 2016 by David Porter. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Immunexpress Pty Ltd. engages in creating molecular diagnostics for sepsis. The company was founded by Roslyn Brandon, Mervyn Rees Thomas and Richard Bruce Brandon and in 2006 and is headquartered in Toowong, Australia.

Uni Targeting Research AS is a holding company that provides the biopharmaceutical industry with tools and services for mammalian cell-line based development procedures and production processes. It offers upstream solutions to reduce complementary deoxyribonucleic acid and mammalian cell-line based timelines and increase protein production yields. Its technology enables both enhanced synthesis/secretion of naturally secreted proteins, and secretion of intracellular proteins. Its services include vector improvement, tailor-made vectors, and tool proteins. The company was founded by Ian Fraser Pryme, John E. Hesketh, Albert Tauler, and Beate Stern in 2001 and is headquartered in Bergen, Norway.

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a immunology drug development company. It focuses on novel therapeutics and specializes in the prevention and treatment of solid organ transplantation, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s diseases. The firm developed OPN-305, an antibody to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which is now at the clinical testing phase. The company was founded by Luke O'Neill, Kingston Mills and Dermot Kelleher in 2004 and is headquartered Dublin, Ireland.

Novo Seeds (Novo Seeds) is a venture capital operating division of Novo Nordisk Fonden. The firm was established in 2007, and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Agendia, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics company. It develops and markets FFPE-based genomic diagnostic products, which help support physicians with their treatment decisions. Agendia?s tests can help physicians assess a patient?s individual risk for metastasis, it benefits from chemo, hormonal or combination therapy. The company was founded by Laura van't Veer and Ren? Bernards in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Nextera AS provides drug research for therapeutic interventions for autoimmune diseases, chronic infections, and cancer. It offers platform for protein engineering and evolution, such as life sciences, drug discovery, and lead optimization fields. The firm’s core competence lies within protein engineering and evolution utilizing its technology to epitope discovery and epitope validation, as well as lead-candidate generation and validation in-vitro. The company was founded by Geir Åge Løset and Inger Sandlie in 2009 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

APIM Therapeutics AS develops and commercializes novel anti-cancer therapies. It offers a physiological intervention point allowing the potentiation of the action of clinical drugs across multiple cancer indications. The company focuses on the development and commercialization of novel anti-cancer therapies potentiating chemo-therapy induced responses in cancer cells. The company was founded by Marit Otterlei in 2009 and is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

Minervax ApS provides vaccine against streptococci. It utilizes fusion protein, which has proved to elicit good protective immunity. Its vaccine provides protective immunity against many clinically relevant GBS strains. The firm is engages in biotechnology, scientific and technical activities, and research and development. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies ApS operates as a biotechnology company which engages in the field of protein production in Drosophila Schneider-2 cells. Its services include custom proteins and research & development reagents, process development, and feasibility studies. The company was founded by Charlotte Dyring, Martin Roland Jensen, and Willem Adriaan de Jongh in 2009 and is headquartered in Horsholm, Denmark.

NBE-Therapeutics AG operates as biotechnology company. It develops next-generation ADCs improving treatment options for cancer patients. The company was founded by Ulf Grawunder in 2012 and is based in Basel, Swizerland.

SkylineDx BV develops molecular diagnostic tests for blood cancers. The firm focuses on the development and commercialization of gene signature-based diagnostic tests, which assist healthcare professionals in making personalized treatment decisions for individual patients. Its products include MMprofiler and AMLprofiler. The company was founded by Dharminder S. Chahal and Bob Löwenberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Aelix Therapeutics SL researches and develops therapies for HIV. It develops therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapies to treat HIV infection. The firm is a spin-off of HIVACAT, the Catalan project for the development of effective vaccines against HIV. The company was founded by Christian Brander, Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell and Jordi Naval is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Zelluna Immunotherapy AS engages in research and development on biotechnology. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Orion Biotechnology Canada Ltd. operates as pharmaceutical company. The company was founded by Rudolf Bom in 2011 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Inversago Pharma, Inc. develops novel gastrointestinal drugs. The company was founded by Fran?ois Ravenelle in and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Part of Affimed NV, Affimed GmbH is a clinical leader in innate immuno-oncology. The company, based in Heidelberg, Germany, develops proprietary cancer-targeting bispecific antibodies that activate the innate immune system to kill tumor cells. Affimed leads clinical development of innate cell engagers for solid/hematologic tumors as monotherapy, in combination with NK cells or with checkpoint inhibitors. Adolf Hoess has been the CEO of the German company since 2010.

de Hoben GmbH is a private company that was founded in 2017 and engages in the buying and selling of land, buildings, and apartments. The company is based in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Vaximm AG provides active immunotherapies for patients suffering from cancer. It develops and provides vaccines for patients suffering from cancer. The firmalso provides research, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in September 2008 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.