Anja Koenig

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.

Arctos Medical AG engages in the acquisition, development, holding, registration, management, disposal, and exploitation of intellectual property rights and similar assets in the medical sector. These include patents, trademarks, licenses, industrial property rights, and inventions. The company was founded on June 6, 2012 and is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.

Ribon Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on developing therapeutics targeting monoADP-ribosylating PARPs for cancer. Its medicines are used for blocking cancer cells? fundamental survival mechanisms. The company was founded by W. Lee Kraus, Tim Mitchison and Paul Chang in 2015 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Forendo Pharma Oy provides novel pharmaceutical treatments for endometriosis and low testosterone levels. Its product fispemifene is the first selective estrogen receptor modulator designed only for men, which helps for the treatment of symptoms of low testosterone, in phase II clinical studies in men with secondary hypogonadism; fispemifene has normalized the low testosterone levels. Its 17HSD1-inhibitor focuses on endometriosis, is a potent and selective lead compounds demonstrated in vivo proof of efficacy in disease model of endometriosis. The company was founded by Risto Arvo Sakari Lammintausta in 2013 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.

CUTISS AG develops bioengineered skin grafts to heal people with skin defects. The company was founded by Ernst Reichmann, Martin Meuli, Daniela Marino, Clemens Schiestl and Fabienne Hartmann-Fritsch and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

F2G Ltd. provides novel drugs for the treatment of life-threatening systemic fungal diseases. It primarily focuses on developing an F3 series of anti mould compound, which is an antifungal agent that acts through a mechanism different from marketed drugs. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

Oxagen Ltd. develops novel molecule drugs to treat inflammatory and respiratory diseases. It offers OC000459, an oral CRTH2 antagonist for the treatment of eosinophilic asthma and allergic rhino conjunctivitis. The company was founded by Nick Cross, John Irving Bellin, Mark Edwards, Trevor J. Nicholls and Ian Michael Laing on September 05 1996 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.