Mark Payton

Epidarex Capital Partners LLC (Epidarex Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Kyparissia Sirinakisvin. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Epidarex Exeed Ltd. is a British biotechnology company that specializes in research and experimental development. The company is based in Edinburgh, UK. The company was founded in 2019 by Elizabeth Ann Roper and Henning Steinhagen, with Henning Steinhagen serving as the CEO since its inception.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Theolytics Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Part of AdhexPharma SAS, tesa Labtec GmbH is a German pharmaceutical company that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Langenfeld, Germany. The company was founded in 1990 by Günter Cordes. The CEO is Detlev Radloff. tesa Labtec was acquired by AdhexPharma SAS from maxingvest AG on September 30, 2022.

OSTHUS Group GmbH operates as a database management company. The firm supports regulated industries in developing data. It specializes in data integration, management, intelligence, and analytics. The company was founded by Torsten Osthus in 1996 and is headquartered in Aachen, Germany.

Libra Therapeutics, Inc. operates as biotechnology company which develops novel disease-modifying therapeutics. It focuses on the areas of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Aptuit LLC engages in the development of pharmaceutical and biotechnological products. Its offerings include drug design and discovery, preclinical biosciences, API development and manufacture, solid state chemistry, solid and oral dosage form development and manufacture, integrated drug discovery and drug development, Aptuit INDiGO, and physical and analytical chemistry services. The company was founded in December 2004 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

Transine Therapeutics Ltd. is an RNA platform company based in Cambridge, UK. The British company is developing a novel class of therapeutic RNAs called SINEUPs, which can upregulate protein expression with a superior level of control and specificity across an unprecedented range of diseases and applications. The company's proprietary technology allows them to address diseases that have been beyond the reach of small molecules, conventional biologics, or gene therapies. The SINEUP platform boosts the expression of almost any chosen target protein by binding precisely to the mRNA that encodes it and enhancing its translation. This technology massively extends the druggable proteome and represents an entirely new mechanism of action, ideally suited to address currently hard-to-treat diseases. The company was founded in 2018 by Stefano Gustincich and Piero Carninci. Jan Thirkettle has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Curve Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a drug-discovery company. It engages on the development of innovative technologies to address undruggable disease-modifying targets, with an in-house focus on cancer. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Leucid Bio Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in London, UK. The British company develops novel, lateral car cell therapies for the treatment of refractory cancers, with a focus on developing next-generation cell therapies for the benefit of individuals with hard-to-treat solid tumors. The company's operations are based at Guys Hospital, enabling them to maintain a patient-centric focus. Leucid's goal is to develop CAR-T therapies with more durable responses, improving treatment outcomes and saving the lives of patients with refractory cancers. Leucid was established to translate 20 years of Kings College research in the CAR-T field and is led by a highly experienced management team, including scientific founder John Maher. Filippo Joseph Petti has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Lunac Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the identification and development of anticoagulants. The company was founded by Helen Philippou and Richard Foster on April 18, 2018 and is headquartered in Leeds, the United Kingdom.

Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammation. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs based upon chromatin biology and novel cell accumulation approaches. The firm uses chromatin biology, drug accumulation approaches to discover and develop cancer, inflammation treatments and small molecule drugs. The company was founded by David Allis, Alan Hornsby Davidson, Alan Hastings Drummond, Anthony Kouzarides and Paul Workman in September 2001 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Kynos Therapeutics Ltd. develops medicines for therapies. The company is based in Edinburgh, UK. The British company was founded by Damian Mole, Scott Webster. The CEO is Jonathan R. Savidge.

Dunad Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biopharmaceutical company that specializes in developing targeted protein degradation therapies. Dunad was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in an undisclosed location, with operations in both the UK and the US. The company's platform allows for selective degradation through direct target modification using tuneable mono-valent small molecules, which enables the development of more drug-like, orally bioavailable, and CNS-accessible protein degraders. The company is backed by Epidarex Capital. Pearl Shirley Huang has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Mironid Ltd. develops proprietary drug candidate molecules by modulating the activity of key cell signalling proteins. The company was founded by Miles Houslay, Paul Barton Rodgers, Elizabeth Fairley, Julia Adam, David Adams and Nigel Pyne in 2014 and is headquartered in North Lanarkshire, the United Kingdom.

Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Wellcome Trust Ltd. engages welfare and charitable services. It supports the discovery of vaccines and drug-resistant infections, diversity and inclusion, open research, government investment in research, data sharing in public health emergencies, and strengthening ecosystems. The company was founded by Henry Wellcome in 1936 and is headquartered in London, UK.

NodThera Ltd. researches and develops novel inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome. The company is headquartered in Little Chesterford, the United Kingdom.

Macomics Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by Jeffrey William Pollard and Luca Cassetta on November 6, 2018 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Adorx Therapeutics Ltd. provides biotechnology, health care and therapeutics services. The company is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Ltd. develops optical molecular imaging technology, which includes optical imaging, cancer imaging and lung imaging. The firm's molecular imaging technology, based on Fluorescent Imaging, has the potential to detect disease in real-time during interventional procedures including surgery, providing more accurate treatment while sparing healthy tissue. The company was founded by Chris Haslett, Kev Dhaliwal and Mark Bradley in February 2014 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Nabriva Therapeutics GmbH is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of novel anti-infective agents to treat serious infections. It focuses on the pleuromutilin class of antibiotics. The company was founded by Rodger Novak in October 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.