Sander Slootweg

Fovea operates within the ophthalmic pharmaceutical market, which is expected to grow at a double-digit annual rate during the years to come. This growth is likely to be driven by new technologies and products, premium pricing facing no significant reimbursement issues, favorable trends (aging of the population, diabetes epidemiology and environmental factors) and dramatic expansion into the large and mostly untapped market for retinal degenerative diseases. With a limited number of players, the ophthalmology market has proved recently to be an early adopter of innovations, allowing new players to gain visibility very rapidly. During the last three years, Fovea has implemented this strategy, by acquiring products from large pharmaceutical or biotech companies and is actively developing them in four different indications. It has also integrated a unique drug discovery platform and has been able to identify one preclinical candidate and several interesting new targets.

Argenta Ltd. operates as a pharmaceutical contract manufacturing company. It serves animal health research, veterinary, and GMP manufacting. The company was founded by Douglas Robert Cleverly in 2006 and is headquartered in Manurewa, New Zealand.

Pulmagen Therapeutics Ltd. manufactures and develops respiratory drugs. Its services include pulmagen respiratory product pipeline, pulmagen crth2 antagonist product pipeline, new generation bronchodilators-astrazeneca collaboration, theocort-inhaled corticosteroid re-sensitisation, inhaled ppar gamma agonists and chiesi collaboration-anti-inflammatory agents. The company was founded in February 2010 and is headquartered in Slough, the United Kingdom.

Part of Xention Pharma Ltd., Xention Ltd. is a British company that develops and researches drugs. The company is based in Newmarket, UK. Xention was founded in 2002.