Nicole Onetto

YM BioSciences, Inc. operates as a drug development company, which manufactures advancing hematology and cancer-related products. It is currently advancing in late-stage products, which include CYT387, an oral small molecule inhibitor of the kinase enzymes JAK1 and JAK2; and Nimotuzumab, an EGFR targeting humanized monoclonal antibody. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Sierra Oncology, Inc. was a clinical stage drug development company of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The firm focused on advanced targeted therapeutics for the treatment of patients with significant unmet medical needs in hematology and oncology. Its product Momelotinib, a selective and orally-bioavailable JAK1, JAK2 & ACVR1 inhibitor with a differentiated therapeutic profile in myelofibrosis encompassing robust constitutional symptom improvements. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of new oncology therapeutics for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. The firm's activities include conducting research and development internally and through corporate collaborators, in-licensing and out-licensing pharmaceutical compounds and technology, conducting clinical trials and raising capital. The company was founded on February 10, 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research provides research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. It offers Innovation programs, like cancer stem cell, innovation in target validation, and smarter imaging, Technology programs, like drug discovery, genome technologies, informatics and bio-computing, imaging translation, and tranformative pathology, and Translation programs. The company was founded by Calvin R. Stiller in December 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

NBE-Therapeutics AG operates as biotechnology company. It develops next-generation ADCs improving treatment options for cancer patients. The company was founded by Ulf Grawunder in 2012 and is based in Basel, Swizerland.

CDR-Life Inc. is a Swiss biotherapeutics company that develops novel immunotherapies to target the power of the immune system specifically to tumor cells. CDR-Life is based in Schlieren, Switzerland, and was founded in 2017 by Leonardo Borras, Christian Leisner, Dominik Escher, Rouven Bingel-Erlenmeyer, and Konstantin von Schulthess. The company's proprietary antibody platform targets intracellular tumor antigens presented on the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) with high affinity and specificity, which allows them to develop a pipeline of first-in-class therapeutics across a broad range of solid tumors. The company is backed by leading cross-Atlantic investors and has an existing collaboration and licensing agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim for a novel antibody fragment therapy to treat macular degeneration. Christian Leisner has been the CEO since 2017.