Jan van den Brand

Part of Amgen, Inc., Amgen BV is a Dutch biotech company that specializes in using living cells to create biologic medicines. The company has helped pioneer the biotech industry and are committed to discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics to patients suffering from serious illnesses. Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and typically address diseases with a limited number of treatment options. The company has a presence in approximately 100 countries and have reached millions of people with their products. Amgen has a robust pipeline focused on the pursuit of transformative medicines with large effects in serious diseases, using human genetic validation whenever possible to strengthen the evidence base for as many of their programs as possible.

MUbio Products B.V. (MUbio) is a privately owned Dutch biotech company, founded in 2000 by Dr. R. Vleugels and Prof. Dr. F. Ramaekers. The company originated as a spin out from the Department of Molecular Cell Biology of the Maastricht University. MUbio produces high quality reagents and bioassays for cell biology and biomedical research. MUbio's product portfolio includes an increasing number of well-characterized antibodies for oncology research, produced in an ISO certified laboratory. MUbio’s partnered and proprietary R&D projects focus on the identification and validation of cancer biomarkers, development of lung cancer diagnostic kits & research and development of a lung cancer vaccine.