Sotirios K. Sotiriou

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Lifespan, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company was founded on January 27, 1997 and is headquartered in Palm Desert, CA.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

Pfizer Ventures Investments LLC (Pfizer Ventures Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

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.

PanOptica, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that provides ophthalmology drugs for treatment of eye diseases. The company was founded by Paul G. Chaney and Martin B. Wax in March 2009 and is headquartered in Bernardsville, NJ.

MISSION Therapeutics Ltd. develops small molecule drugs targeting enzymes involved in cancer and other diseases. It focuses on selectively targeting deubiquitylating enzymes to treat cancer, neurodegenerative and other diseases. The company was founded by Stephen Jackson Philip, Xavier Jacq, Niall M. B. Martin and Keith Menear in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

ImCyse SA engages in the development of curative therapies in the field of immune and allergic pathologies. It offers a technological platform that helps develop medicinal products with potential benefits in all clinical circumstances where HLA class II restricted specific immunity can be causative of or contribute to damages to humans or animals. The firm's products are used in organ-specific autoimmunity, allergy, alloimmunity, cancer and infectious diseases. The company was founded in August 2010 by Jean-Marie R. Saint-Remy and is headquartered in Liege, Belgium.

eFFECTOR Therapeutics Operations, Inc. discovers and develops translation regulators. It offers small molecule therapeutics that control gene expression for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Its pipeline of translation regulators includes eFT508, eIF4E, and eIF4A. The company was founded by James R. Appleman, Kevin L. Eastwood, Siegfried Reich, Davide Ruggero, Kevan Shokat, and Stephen T. Worland in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Metabomed Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It focuses in the field of cancer metabolism with a proprietary target identification platform based on computational biology and metabolomics. The company was founded by Eytan Ruppin, Tomer Shlomi and Eyal Gottlieb in 2013 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV develops novel immunotherapies to overcome cancers and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Carlo Heirman, Kris Thielemans and Sonja van Meirvenne in January 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Niel, Belgium.

Merck Ventures BV (Merck Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Merck KGaA founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Imcheck Therapeutics SAS operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops immunotherapeutic anti-cancer strategies for research. The company was founded by Olive Daniel in 2015 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

Immunic AG develops pharmaceuticals in the immunology space. The firm offers immune modulators to block TH17-and TH1-mediated immune and autoimmune responses. The company was founded by Andreas Muhler and Manfred Groppel in April 2016 and is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. The firm discovers and develops immuno-oncology drugs, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of cancer diseases. It specializes in clinical development, and glyco-immune checkpoint inhibitors. The company was founded by Jim Broderick, Carolyn Bertozzi and Paul Crocker in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Anaveon AG engages in the development of immune therapies against cancer. Its compounds promote effector T-cell functions to enhance a patient?s immune system to respond to tumors. The company was founded on December 11, 2017 by Onur Boyman and Andreas Katopodis and is headquartered in Bottmingen, Switzerland.

2591046 Ontario Corp. provides artificial intelligence for reproductive medicine. The company was founded by Rene Bharti, Alex Krivoi, Jim Meriano and Dan Nayot and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Amphista Therapeutics Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Biocity Glasgow, UK. The British company is focused on creating first-in-class therapeutics that selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins using targeted protein degradation (TPD). The company's pipeline of novel small molecules is focused on challenging diseases, including cancer. Amphista is a spin-out of Professor Alessio Ciulli's labs at the University of Dundee and is funded by leading life science investors, including Advent Life Sciences, the European Investment Fund, the Scottish Investment Bank, and Biomotiv. The CEO of the company is Nicola Thompson.

Soteria Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops next-generation immunotherapies. Its development allows to control the activity of immunomodulatory therapeutics such as bi-specific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) and CAR T-cells.The company was founded by Zachary Hill and Alexander Martinko and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

EvolveImmune Therapeutics Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers immunotherapy platform to develop molecules for the treatment of oncology and immune diseases. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Kestrel Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology development company. The company is based in Wayland, MA. The CEO of the company is Frank G. Haluska.

Egle Therapeutics SAS is a biotech company based in Paris, France. Egle Therapeutics develops first-in-class immunotherapies targeting immune suppressor regulatory T cells (Tregs) for oncology and autoimmune diseases. The French company leverages its translational-based target discovery platform to unveil novel therapeutic Treg targets and computationally designed immunocytokines acting as antagonists or as selective Treg-agonists. The company was founded in 2020 by Luc Boblet, a serial biotech entrepreneur, and Dr. Eliane Piaggio, a renowned immunologist.

EQT Life Sciences Group BV (EQT Life Sciences) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of EQT AB founded in 2022 after the acquisition of LSP by EQT. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Aerium Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that focuses on epidemic and pandemic preparedness. The company is based in Lausanne and has operations in the United States. The company's mission is to discover and develop antibodies and small molecule antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 and other epidemic and pandemic threats. Aerium Therapeutics has a team of world-class scientists and biotechnology veterans, as well as experienced investors. Aerium's lead assets are monoclonal antibodies that show broad activity against important variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron and its subvariants. The company plans to expand its pipeline to antiviral therapeutics in late 2022 and will broaden its focus to other epidemic and pandemic threats in the future. The CEO of the company is Rajeev Venkayya.

Merganser Biotech, Inc. engages in the development of of hepcidin mimetic peptides as new medicines for the treatment of hematological and iron overload diseases. The company was founded by Brian R. MacDonald and Gene Merutka in 2011 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.