Bertrand Damour

Wellington Partners GmbH (Wellington Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Rolf Christof Dienst. The firm is headquartered in Munich, with offices in Zurich, London, and Palo Alto.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, BASF Pharma Ltd. is a British company that produces excipients and active ingredients. The company is based in Kent, UK. The company was founded by Erich Schlick. BASF Pharma was acquired by Abbott Laboratories from BASF SE on March 02, 2001 for $6,128.79 million.

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops anti-cancer immunotherapy products. The firm specializes in the discovery and development of immunotherapy products against cancer. It develops IMA901, a combination of multiple tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans Georg Rammensee, Hansjörg Schild, and Peter Brossart in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

Amgen Rockville, Inc. develops and commercializes antibody-based products. Its product development pipeline includes novel antibodies generated with its BiTE antibody platform, as well as conventional monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Evolva SA is a Swiss-headquartered, international pharmaceutical biotech company focused on the discovery and development of drugs based on its distinctive and proprietary genetic chemistry platform. The company was founded in Switzerland in 2004 based on US/Danish technology. Evolva is headquartered in Allschwil/Basel with operations in Denmark, India and the USA. The Company has raised CHF 38.2 million of equity to date and employs 75 persons of whom 30 are based in Allschwil. The firm's strategy and business approach is based on five pillars that offer a sustainable development path for creating a successful company, which include Building a balanced portfolio. Evolva focuses on orally available small molecules in the belief that they are more convenient for patients and more cost-effective both from manufacture and administration points of view for the society, focus on differentiated pharmaceutical products with major benefits. Focusing on cardiovascular/renal and infectious diseases. Together they cause more than 50% of all deaths worldwide. Most of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies are active in both sectors, and all are active in one of the two sectors - hence widening Evolva's opportunities to partner. Building technology platform as the source of this differentiation. Evolva finds different structures with different properties from those found by the 99% of the industry that focuses on synthetic chemistry or proteins. Openness to unusual markets. The biotech business model has changed. As well as the established markets new opportunities arise in emerging countries such as India and China, and in adjacent sectors such as treatments against potential bio-terrorist and bio-warfare agents and the production of pharmaceutical and industrial chemical intermediates. Cost-effective implementation. Evolva places different functions around the globe according to where local conditions best suit. This approach both reduces Evolva's cost base and increases access to revenues, partners and talent. Evolva sees revenues and partners as important because they provide additional flexibility, resources and talent. Also, they provide important opportunities to better understand, and better meet, the needs of current and future customers.

Sensimed SA develops non-invasive soft contact lens-based solutions. It offers solutions to monitor fluctuations in intraocular pressure continuously. The company was founded by Matteo Leonardi and Sacha Cerboni in 2003 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

ISA Pharmaceuticals BV operates as a clinical-stage immunotherapy company. The firm develops novel therapeutic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases. Its product portfolio builds on its proprietary SLP-technology (Synthetic Long Peptide) for the development of therapeutic vaccines. The firm holds the exclusive rights to LUMC's patent families for amongst others, the development of therapeutic vaccines. The company was founded by Cornelis J. M. Melief in 2004 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

LANXESS Deutschland GmbH produces and sells chemicals. It operates as a subsidiary company. The company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVF) is the venture capital arm of Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, itself a subsidiary of C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG. The firm was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany. It also has two US offices located in Fremont, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

ImevaX GmbH develops vaccines against pathogens of chronic infectious diseases, especially helicobacter pylori. It offers diagnostic and therapeutic methods for bacterial agents. The company was founded by Markus Gerhard in 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Immatics US, Inc. develops adoptive cell therapies (ACT) for the treatment of cancer. The company’s ACT therapies are intended to use human T-cells that have been multiplied outside the body before being infused into a cancer patient. It also offers XPRESIDENT, a target discovery engine that enables users to identify, quantify, and prioritize tumor-associated peptides that are recognized by T-cells. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh-Jasuja, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans-George Rammensee, Steffen Walter, Peter Brossart and Hansjorg Schild in June 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Topas Therapeutics GmbH engages in pharmaceutical preparations. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Maverick Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a preclinical stage biotech company. It develops a novel class of T cell- redirecting antibody therapeutics that have the potential to substantially broaden the range of targets and clinical applications to be used for this ultra-potent mechanism. The company was founded by Robert Dubridge and Patrick A. Baeuerle in 2016 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

Rinri Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company developing a novel cell-based therapy to restore hearing. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

TACALYX GmbH engages in the discovery and development of Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigenantibodies to treat cancer. The company was founded by Peter Sondermann, Peter H. Seeberger, and Oren Moscovitz and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

T-Knife GmbH operates as an next-generation adoptive T-cell company using its proprietary humanized T-cell receptor mouse platform to treat solid tumors. The company was founded by Thomas Blankenstein, Elisa Kieback and Holger Specht in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

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.