Bernardus MacHielse

ImClone LLC develops targeted biologic treatments designed for the medical needs of patients with tumors. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

MedImmune LLC develops medicines for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases such as cancer and immune system disorders. It offers solutions in the areas of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines for infection, oncology, respiratory disease and inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, and neuroscience. The company was founded by Wayne T. Hockmeyer in 1988 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Vicuron Pharmaceuticals LLC develops pharmaceutical products. It engages in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing vital medicine for seriously ill patients. The company offers anidulafungin drug, which prevents cell wall formation and other infectious fungi. It also offers antibiotic for the treatment of complicated skin and soft-tissue infections. The company was founded by Christopher T. Walsh in 1995 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

EryDel SpA offers medical research. It develops drugs and diagnostics delivered through human red blood cells via a medical device technology. The company was founded by Luigia Rossi and Mauro Magnani in 2007 and is headquartered in Bresso, Italy.

Crescendo Biologics Ltd. engages in the development of new medicines based on antibody fragment technology. Its products in pipeline in dermatology include CB001, a transformational Humabody-based topical biologic for psoriasis which combines exceptional activity against a validated target with a topical route of delivery to avoid systemic side effects. The firm?s oncology products in pipeline include Humabody Multi-Specific T-Cell Engagers, Humabody Antibody Drug Conjugates and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. The company was founded by Michael Anthony Romanos, David Rayll Brown and John Bradshaw on November 13, 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

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.

Hookipa Biotech AG develops new generation prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. The firm’s Vaxwave technology is a novel immunotherapy platform using a replication-defective viral vector for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Lukas Flatz, Andreas Bergthaler, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Daniel Pinschewer in July 2011 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

NYU Elaine A. & Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center provides health care services. It offers treatments for bone, joint, and muscle disorders; brain and nervous system disorders cancers, tumors and blood disorders; genetic and chromosomal disorders and immune system disorders. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Inotrem SA specializes in the development of therapeutic approaches based on its proprietary TREM-1 platform. The firm focuses on the control of immune reactions in acute inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Jean-Jacques Garaud, Marc Derive and Sebastien Gibot in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Corvidia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focusing on cardiovascular therapies. It develops treatments for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, inflammation in chronic kidney diseases, and high triglyceride-induced acute pancreatitis. The company was founded by Michael H. Davidson, Rahul Kakkar, Matt Devalaraja, and Ram Aiyar in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Breath Therapeutics GmbH is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of inhaled therapeutics for respiratory diseases. It offers drug device platform, which consists of liposomal drug-aerosol formulations and cutting-edge inhalation technology. The company was founded by Jens Stegemann, Gerhard Boerner, Oliver Denk, and Anne Burger in 2016 and is headquartered in Munchen, Germany.

HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc. develops new allosteric therapies with the ability to treat disease. The company was founded by Jonathan Montagu and Geraldine Harriman and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

GeneSpire Srl is a holding company, which engages in the development of transformative gene therapies for patients with genetic diseases. The company was founded by Luigi Naldini and Alessio Cantone in March 2020 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biotechnology company that specializes in developing engineered cell-based therapies and in vivo reprogramming to restore vision for individuals with degenerative ocular diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, UK and was founded in 2020. Tenpoint Therapeutics brings together experts who are shaping the regenerative ocular medicine revolution and the technologies that are driving it. The company's focus is on replacing diseased cells with healthy ones to permanently restore vision. Eddy Anglade has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

GlycoEra AG is a Swiss biotechnology company specializing in the development of novel biologics for various indications. The company is based in Schlieren, Switzerland, and the USA. The company utilizes its innovative customglycan platform to design, engineer, and develop medicines based on deep expertise in glycobiology. GlycoEra has raised over $49 million in a 2021 series A financing round co-led by 5AM Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, and Roche Venture Fund. The company was founded by Dominique Sirena, Amir Faridmoayer, and Veronica Gambillara Fonck. Ganesh Venkataraman Kaundinya has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Mablink Bioscience is a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France that develops next-generation antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of solid tumors. Mablink Bioscience's exclusive PSarlink™ platform is a unique stealth technology that "masks" the hydrophobicity of the cytotoxic drugs by adding a polysarcosine chain to the linker. The French company's pipeline is built on the topoisomerase-I inhibitor exatecan as a payload for current developments. Recently, the company announced the publication of a review article titled “Payload Diversification\: A Key Step in the Development of Antibody–Drug Conjugates” which reviews the history of the successes and failures in ADC payloads and takes a look at the new roads currently explored by the industry. The company was founded in 2018 by Warren Viricel and Jean-Guillaume Lafay, with Jean-Guillaume Lafay serving as CEO since then.

Jamanda Ltd. is an investment holding British company founded in 2016. The private company is based in Grantham, UK. The company's main function is to hold investments.