Catherine Boule

Alcon Laboratories, Inc. develops and manufactures ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. The firm offers over-the-counter eye care products, medical devices, equipment, ophthalmic drugs, surgical instruments, needles, and sutures for microsurgery and disposable drapes. The company was founded by Robert Alexander and William Conner in 1945 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Sofimac Innovation SAS is an independent, early-stage venture capital firm which was created in 1998 by Eric Harlé and Didier Moret. Headquartered in Paris, France, Sofimac Innovation manages venture capital funds which provide equity financing for start-ups and early-stage companies in the Information and Communication Technologies (Software, SaaS, Multimedia and Telecom) sector.

ESBATech AG develops antibody fragment therapeutics. The firm's antibody fragment is derived from human antibody fragment scaffolds. It develops Immuna, an antigen-independent platform to screen, select, and optimize highly-stable and soluble, single-chain antibody fragments. The company was founded by Dominik Escher in September 1998 and is headquartered Schlieren, Switzerland.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Ogeda SA discovers and develops small molecule drugs. It develops NK3 antagonists for the treatment of hormone-dependent pathologies in the field of Women's Health. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Spain.

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.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

INSERM Transfert Initiative SAS is a venture capital fund that invests in companies located in France. It targets startups from the life sciences and biotechnology sectors, developing new medical practices with a strong intellectual property. It invests between €1 million and €3 million per company during mostly at pre-seed, seed and early-stages.

Minka Therapeutics SA develops therapeutic products and diagnostic complementary to current antiretroviral therapy in the treatment of AIDS. The firm provides therapeutic and diagnostic solutions for diseases linked to the immune system through its research on immune dysregulations. The company was founded by Patrice Debre, Vincent Vieillard, Michel Klein, Joël Crouzet, and Robert L. Murphy in 2008 and is headquartered in Evry, France.

Cell Medica Switzerland AG engages in the research, development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical, biological, medical, and diagnostic products. It provides locally and systemically applied antibody therapeutics under the PENTRA Body platform. The company was founded by Thomas O. Hecht on September 4, 2009 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Switzerland.

Swiss Biotech Association operates as an industry association. The private company is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Michael Altorfer has been the CEO of the Swiss company since 2018.

MedDay Pharmaceuticals SAS operates as a biotechnology company developing new drugs for nervous system disorders. The firm operates for the treatment of neuro-metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Frédéric Sedel and Guillaume Brion in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Tissium SA engages in the development and commercialization of biodegradable sealants and adhesives for invasive surgery. It offers biomimetic wound closure solutions. The company was founded by Bernard J. Gilly, Robert S. Langer, Christophe Bancel, Jeff Karp, Jacques Marescaux, Maria Pereira, and Patrick Houvet in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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.

Metabomed Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It focuses in the field of cancer metabolism with a proprietary target identification platform based on computational biology and metabolomics. The company was founded by Eytan Ruppin, Tomer Shlomi and Eyal Gottlieb in 2013 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.

ENYO Pharma SA operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm's research and development is focused on human infecting viruses, with the first two programs being dedicated to the treatment of severe and seasonal flu and chronic hepatitis B. The company was founded by Jacky Vonderscher, Jean-Jacques Garaud, Benoît de Chassey, Laurène Meyniel-Schicklin, Patrice André and Vincent Lotteau January 2014 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

TOPADUR Pharma AG is a Swiss-based biotech company located in Schlieren. TOPADUR is a patient-oriented biotech company that aims to enhance the quality of life through cutting-edge research. The private company is developing a new class of compounds based on their innovative cgmp-enzyme regulation system, which corrects locally cgmp levels. These compounds target high medical needs and can be used to treat several ageing-related diseases resulting from insufficient local blood-circulation. The company was founded in 2015 by Reto Naef, who has been the CEO since then.

Revolo Biotherapeutics Ltd. develops immunologic and inflammatory medications. It develops disease resetting therapeutics for immuno-inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Ncardia SA engages in drug discovery research and development. Its cardiac products encompass hiPSC-derived Pluricyte, Cardiomyocytes, Cor.4U cardiomyocytes and vCor.4U ventricular cardiomyocytes and FibroCor.4U cardiac fibroblasts. The company is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

Pureos Partners AG (Pureos Partners) is a venture capital division of Bellevue Asset Management AG founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

NovaGo Therapeutics AG is a biotechnology start-up company, which engages in the development and manufacture of human antibody products. It focuses on cerebral stroke and spinal cord injury to stimulate nerve repair and regeneration. Its offering includes recombinant human monoclonal antibodies targeting the nerve outgrowth inhibitor Nogo-A. The company was founded by Martin E. Schwab and Roger M. Nitsch and is headquartered in Schlieren, Switzerland.

AgomAb Therapeutics NV operates as a Belgian biotherapeutics company, developing agonistic antibodies for regeneration of damaged tissues. The company was founded by Paolo Michieli, Manuela Cazzanti, Virginia Morello, Federica Caterina Linty, Michael Potter Saunders, and Hans J. W. de Haard in 2017 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Araris Biotech AG engages in the development and research of an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) linker technology. It focuses on the production of ADCs. Its linker platform enables the attachment of payload to off the shelf antibodies without the need of antibody engineering. The company was founded by Philipp Spycher, Isabella Attinger-Toller, and Dragan Grabulovski and is headquartered in Z?rich, Switzerland.

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.

Cellaïon SA is a biotech company located in Mont Saint Guibert, Belgium. Cellaïon aims to restore a favorable environment to reboost the regenerative process of the liver and ensure a second life to the native liver instead of losing it. The Belgian company has a strong IP base issued from their own research and academic research at UCLouvain, developed with the objective to generate new products. Cellaïon's treatment covers the wide spectrum of liver diseases, from the highly life-threatening acute-on-chronic liver-failure (ACLF) and acute alcoholic hepatitis, to intermediate severity acute decompensation of cirrhosis (AD) and progressive chronic liver diseases caused by non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The company has built up a series of R&D and collaborative partnerships with both industrial and academic partners, allowing Cellaïon to broaden and accelerate its clinical development. The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal, who has been the CEO since incorporation.