Denis Lucquin

France Biotech Association is an independent association founded in 1997 that brings together healthtech entrepreneurs and their expert partners. The non-profit company is based in Paris, France. The association actively contributes to meeting the many challenges of the healthtech industry, such as companies' financing, innovation-related taxes, regulatory and market access related issues. It offers concrete competition and solutions through its commissions and working groups to help startups and SMEs become international leaders capable of rapidly developing and bringing innovative solutions to patients. The French company was founded by Philippe Pouletty, Pascal Brandys, Denis J. Lucquin.

DNP Green Technology is a stand-alone business devoted to commercialization of technologies related to manufacturing of biologically-derived succinic acid and its derivatives. DNP Green Technology's bio-based succinic acid production process is cost competitive with that of petro-based processes and has the further advantage of being 'green'. DNP's process consumes green house gases (CO2), providing the long term potential to generate carbon credits. Its core technology consists of a proprietary E.coli fermentation process and an integrated downstream process that has been proven at a large scale (80,000 liters). Succinic acid has numerous market applications such as bioplastics & green plasticizers and polyesters & resins.

CareX SA is a privately held biopharmaceutical company located in Strasbourg, France, that is committed to the discovery and development of innovative, safe and effective medicines for the treatment of diseases linked to the metabolic syndrome. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

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.

Neuro3d SA develops pharmaceutical products to treat the central nervous system. Neuro3d has a full pipeline of innovative compounds with new mechanisms of action that have the potential to overcome the limitations of current drug therapies. It leads compound, the atypical antipsychotic ocaperidone, is being investigated in two international double-blind Phase II trials for treatment of schizophrenia. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in Mulhouse, France.

Innolion provides investment services.

Cerenis Therapeutics, Inc. discovers, develops and commercializes drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. It focuses on discovery, development, and commercialization of HDL therapies. Cerenis Therapeutics is located in Ann Arbor, MI.

Biocleave Ltd. develops and sells microbial technology for the production of renewable chemicals and biofuels. It also provides biobutanol and other C4 chemical products. The firm also engages in microbiology and metabolic engineering through fermentation and commercial production scale. Its products include biobutanol chemicals and fuel, acetone, and butyric acid. The company was founded by Edward M. Green in 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Institut National de Recherche Agronomique SA operates an agricultural research institute. The private company is based in Paris, France. and has subsidiaries in France.

EnobraQ SAS develops yeast for the production of chemical compounds. The company was founded on November 13, 2015 and is headquartered in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France.

NOXXON Pharma AG operates a clinical stage biotechnology company. Its core focus is on cancer treatment. The firm offers effectiveness of cancer treatments including immuno-oncology approaches such as immune checkpoint inhibition and current standards of care such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The company was founded in 1997 by Sven Klussmann, Jens-Peter Fürste and Thomas Klein and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Avantium Technologies BV operates as chemical technology company. It offers a breeding ground for revolutionary renewable chemistry solutions. The firm specializes in innovations and technologies for catalytic research and development services and systems. The company was founded in February 2000 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

By Design Ltd. owns & operates clothing and footwear stores. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Manchester, GB.

Microphyt SA researches, develops, produces and markets natural bioactive products from microalgae. Its solutions are intended to address the needs of personal-care, food and health-care industries worldwide, through a differentiated and sustainable approach and proprietary technologies allow controlled and industrial-scale supply of microalgae biomass and extracts. The firm''s Industrial scale photo bioreactors developed and patented and are designed to produce specific strains of microalgae by preserving cell integrity and yielding commercial quantities of slow-growing or biofilm-forming species. The company was founded by Arnaud Muller-Feuga in 2007 and is headquartered in Baillargues, France.