Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

HealthCap AB (HealthCap) is a venture capital subsidiary of Odlander, Fredrikson & Co. AB founded in 1995 by Björn Ingemar Odlander and Peder Fredrikson. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Switzerland.

Cortendo AB engages in the provision of biopharmaceutical business. Its activities include development and distribution of orphan drugs for metabolic and endocrine diseases as well as diabetes. Its products include cortisol inhibition and normocort. The company was founded on October 6, 1996 and is headquartered in Trevose, PA.

Les Laboratoires Servier SAS manufactures medicines for the treatment of diabetes, venous disease, and cancer. It also offers pharmaceutical products for cardiovascular illnesses such as hypertension, heart failure, and stroke. The company was founded by Jacques Servier in 1954 and is headquartered in Suresnes, France.

Laboratoires Fournier SAS manufactures pharmaceutical preparations. The company was founded on July 10, 2007 and is headquartered in Rungis, France.

Fournier Pharma SA manufactures pharmaceutical products. The firm is also in the engaged in the research, development, production and marketing of molecules. The company has operations in Canada, China, Algeria, Bulgaria, Thailand and Turkey. It was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Chenôve, France.

Pierre Fabre Médicament SA manufactures cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. It focuses on research, development, and prescription of medicines and cosmetics. The company was founded on December 31, 1982 and is headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Galderma SA develops and markets therapeutic and aesthetic solutions for dermatology. It provides medical dermatological solutions for acne, rosacea, psoriasis and other steroid-responsive dermatoses, onychomycosis, pigmentary disorders, skin cancer and medical aesthetic and corrective solutions for skin senescence. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Roche Ventures is the venture investment division of the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG (SWX:ROG). The group is headquartered in Basel with operations and affiliates worldwide, and is a world leader in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. The firm was founded in 2002.

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.

Altimmune UK Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against mutating viruses and cancer. It provides T-cell vaccines to protect patients against infectious diseases (most notably mutating viruses) and to treat cancers; and Flunisyn, a DepoVaccine to protect against influenza. The company was founded by Bertrand Georges in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 2004, Cellerix is a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative treatments based on cell therapy. Cellerix was founded within the Genetrix Group, group of biotechnology companies specialising in biomedicine. The Genetrix Group began its activities in 2001 at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), which belongs to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). One of the main objectives of Genetrix is to convert basic research results into therapeutic realities. Cellerix is leading the development of a new generation of medicines using expanded adult stem cells from adipose tissue (eASCs). Development is at a clinically advanced stage and the results from clinical trials in Phase I and II have been very promising. Obtaining these eASCs has big advantages because the process makes use of tissue that is almost always discarded from surgical procedures such as liposuction. eASCs have the capacity to activate physiological repair mechanisms through interaction with affected tissue. This technology represents a revolution in the treatment of some diseases that cannot satisfactorily be cured at present. Cellerix is working actively to adapt this new therapeutic strategy to treat autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. The main goal of the company is to market new tools for treating these diseases, which have a considerable negative impact of the quality of life of the sufferers. Cellerix also researches and develops medicines in other areas such as the development of skin equivalents, which are initially intended for the treatment of hereditary diseases such as epidermolysis bullosa.

FerroKin BioSciences, Inc. offers clinical stage biotechnology services for iron chelator in the treatment of iron-overload in patients with transfusion-dependent hereditary and acquired refractory anemia. The company was founded by Hugh Young Rienhoff, Jr. in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

ARM is a Washington, DC-based multi-stakeholder advocacy organization that promotes global initiatives necessary to facilitate access to life-giving advances in regenerative medicine. The organization promotes legislative, regulatory reimbursement, investment, technical, and other initiatives to accelerate the development of safe and effective regenerative medicine technologies. ARM also works to increase public understand- ing of the field and its potential to transform human healthcare. Prior to the formation of ARM in 2009, there was a need for more coordinated and cohesive advocacy representing the interests of the companies, research institutions, investors and patient groups that comprise the entire regenerative medicine community. Today ARM has more than 140 members and is the leading global advocacy organization in this field.

Xeltis AG develops medical devices to transform standards of care in heart valve replacement and vascular surgery. It develops fully bio absorbable synthetic heart valves and vascular grafts intended to enable for the first time the spontaneous growth of natural, healthy valves and vessels. Its medical device platform comprises bioabsorbable heart valves and blood vessels, designed to enable Endogenous Tissue Restoration (ETR), the natural restoration of the complex body part they replace upon implantation. The company was founded by Martijn Cox, Laurent Grandidier and Simon P. Hoerstrup in 2006 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Modus Therapeutics AB operates as a clinical-stage drug development company that develops new pharmaceutical therapies designed to restore impaired blood flow and oxygen transport in diseases with unmet medical needs. The firm’s product Sevuparin, evaluates in a phase II clinical trial in sickle cell disease (SCD) and repeated painful crises in SCD, so called vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) that leads to loss of vital organ function and reduced life span. The company was founded by Carl Mats Wahlgren in 2011 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

OncoDNA SA develops and provides diagnostic and analytical tools for cancer treatment. The firm offers treatment options, integrated biological review, monitoring, pathology and DNA sequencing. The company was founded by Jean-Pol Detiffe on November 29, 2012 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

Rainier Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops a targeted biologic for the potential treatment of metastatic bladder cancer. It provides Vofatamab, an antibody that is focused on the fibroblast growth factor of bladder and other cancer. The company was founded by Stephen Lau and is headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Glionova AB develops cancer treatment drugs. The firm is a drug discovery and development company. It offers GLN-1001 product. The company was founded by Lars G. J. Hammarström and Patrik Ernfors in 2014 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Part of TiGenix NV, Tigenix SAU is a Spanish company that collects all the research and development of health, agri-food and industrial products from its partners. The company is based in Tres Cantos, Spain. The company has been driving biotechnology in Spain since 1999 and have more than 300 associated companies, startups, and entities. The group Zendal, a 100%% Spanish biopharmaceutical group, includes seven companies focused on manufacturing and commercializing high-value biotechnology products. Tigenix SAU is a member of AseBio, and the membership fees vary depending on the type of entity and the company's age, annual turnover, and equity. The company offers discounts and economic advantages to their members. The AseBio Investor Day is an investment forum that aims to connect the Spanish biotechnology industry with investors.

Precirix NV develops and distributes radio-immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer patients. The company was founded on October 14, 2014 by Jens De Vos, Ludwig Camusot, Nick Devoogdt, Geert Raes, Tony Lahoutte and Matthias Dhuyvetter and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

SpliceBio SL is a genetic medicines company based in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish company harnesses its proprietary protein splicing platform to develop the next generation of gene therapies. SpliceBio's platform offers the potential to address diseases that currently cannot be treated with gene therapies because the necessary gene is too large to be delivered by -associated virus (AAV) vectors. The company's lead program targets Stargardt disease, a genetic eye disease that causes vision loss in children and adults. SpliceBio's platform is based on technology developed in the Muir lab at Princeton University after more than 20 years of pioneering intein and protein engineering research. The company was founded by Dominguez Silvia Frutos, Miquel Vila-Perelló, and Miquel Vila-Perelló has been the CEO since incorporation.

ADCendo ApS is a Danish company that is focused on developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to treat underserved cancers. The company is based in Humlebaek, Denmark. The company completed a series A extension financing round in 2023, which brought its funds to 82 million EUR to advance into clinical development. The investors in the company include Novo Holdings, Ysios Capital, Pontifax Venture Capital, RA Capital Management, HealthCap, and Gilde Healthcare. The company was founded in 2017 by Christoffer Nielsen, Henrik Stage. Michael Pehl has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Aro Biotherapeutics Co. operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on the research and development of a new generation of protein biologics products. It specializes in oncology, drug discovery, drug development, licensing, drug delivery, sirna, immunology, bispecifics, protein conjugation, protein therapeutics and protein engineering services. The company was founded by Karyn O?Neil and Susan Dillon in 2018 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Citryll BV is a private pharmaceutical company located in Oss, the Netherlands, at the Pivot Park. Citryll is dedicated to developing and commercializing therapeutics that target netosis and NETs, with a focus on immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The Dutch company's lead antibody, Cit-013, has a unique dual mode of action and proprietary NET biomarker assays, making it a promising drug for rheumatoid arthritis and hidradenitis suppurativa. The initial clinical trials with Cit-013 are expected to provide the foundation for a new treatment paradigm for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2015 by Helmuth van Es, Renato Chirivi, and the late Jos Raats of ModiQuest.

Sutura Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biopharmaceutical company that is advancing biomolecular medicine through its Peptigo technology platform. The company is based in Macclesfield, UK. Sutura's team is made up of skilled and passionate professionals who bring a unique perspective to the table. The company was founded in 2020, and Edwin J. Wagena has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Priothera Ltd. engages in the development of orally delivered sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulators for hematological malignancies. The company was founded by Florent Gros, Shaval Patel, and Brice Suire in 2020 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Hemab ApS develops antibodies for the treatment of rare bleeding disorders. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Danish company was founded in 2019 by Johan Henrik Faber. Benny Sorensen has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Mahzi Therapeutics is a private biotechnology company that focuses on genetic therapies for rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. The company was founded by Yael Weiss and is based in San Mateo, CA. The company unites patient and family groups, academic researchers, diagnostic companies, other industry members, and its internal team of experts to develop therapies for patients with these serious diseases. Mahzi's team is experienced in all aspects of biopharmaceutical research, development, and manufacturing and is driven to make a difference in the lives of patients with rare genetic diseases. Yael Weiss has been the CEO since incorporation.

Ariceum Therapeutics GmbH is a German clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company that focuses on the diagnosis and precision treatment of certain neuroendocrine and other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers. Ariceum Therapeutics is based in Berlin, DE, and has subsidiaries in various locations worldwide. The company's lead targeted systemic radiopharmaceutical product, -satoreotide tetraxetan ("satoreotide"), is an antagonist of the somatostatin type 2 (sstr2) receptor, which is overexpressed in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and some aggressive cancers such as small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and Merkel cell carcinoma. Ariceum is also developing a radiolabeled PARP-inhibitor (ATT-001), which is slated to enter the clinic in early 2024. The company was founded in 2021, and Manfred Rüdiger has been the CEO of the company since 2021.