Florian Muellershausen

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.

Anaveon AG engages in the development of immune therapies against cancer. Its compounds promote effector T-cell functions to enhance a patient?s immune system to respond to tumors. The company was founded on December 11, 2017 by Onur Boyman and Andreas Katopodis and is headquartered in Bottmingen, Switzerland.

FoRx Therapeutics AG operates as a biotechnology company developing a new generation of cancer drugs focusing on novel deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) Replication Stress pathways activated in cancer. The firm also provides research and development services. The company was founded by Thanos Halazonetis and Sotirios K. Sotiriou in 2019 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Amphista Therapeutics Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Biocity Glasgow, UK. The British company is focused on creating first-in-class therapeutics that selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins using targeted protein degradation (TPD). The company's pipeline of novel small molecules is focused on challenging diseases, including cancer. Amphista is a spin-out of Professor Alessio Ciulli's labs at the University of Dundee and is funded by leading life science investors, including Advent Life Sciences, the European Investment Fund, the Scottish Investment Bank, and Biomotiv. The CEO of the company is Nicola Thompson.