Francine Behar-Cohen

Bausch Health Americas, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. The company was founded on November 29, 2011 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG operates as a holding company, with interests in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. It offers prescription drugs for the treatment of human respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and central nervous system diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus infection and cancer. The company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany.

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.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. provides preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and usher syndrome. The firm also provides provide information on retinal degenerative diseases to all who request it, in order to increase knowledge and awareness of these diseases. It has locations in Columbia, Denver, Libertyville, New York, Plano, Raleigh and Santa Monica. The company was founded on September 16, 1971 and is headquartered in Columbia, MD.

Pontifax Management Co. Ltd. (Pontifax) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Eliyahu Hurvitz. The firm is headquartered in Herzliya Pituach, Israel.

BPIFrance Investissement SAS (BPIfrance Investissement) is the private equity arm and subsidiary of State-owned Banque Publique d'Investissement in France. Formerly known as CDC Entreprises SAS, the firm was established in 1994 to carry out public-interest missions such as employment creation and momentum initiation in the private equity field. In 2013 they became BPIfrance Investissement when CDC Entreprises, FSI and FSI Régions merged. Headquartered in Paris, BPIfrance Investissement invests of behalf of the Government of France, as well as for third parties including FEI-Fonds Européen d'Investissement, BEI-Banque Européenne d'Investissement and BPCE SA. The firm invests directly or indirectly in SMEs and intermediate-sized companies at all stages of their development.

Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Research Institute provides investment services. The company is headquartered in Columbia, MD.

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.

Okairos AG develops preventive and therapeutic vaccines against human chronic infectious diseases. Its products include genetic vaccines, adenovirus vector platform, and proprietary cell line. The company was founded by Riccardo Cortese, Alfredo Nicosia, and Antonella Folgori in 2007 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops peptidomimetic small molecule drugs against glaucoma and cancer. Its product mimic the effects of neurotrophin proteins that help to maintain the health and growth of cells and tissues found in the eye. Mimetogen provides tyrosine kinase agonists that prevent neuronal death; small molecule tyrosine kinase receptor agonists, which stimulates mucin secretion from conunctival goblet cells; and small molecule neurotrophin mimetics that rescues retinal pigment epithelial cells from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. The company was founded by Garth Cumberlidge and H. Uri Saragovi in 2005 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Immutep SAS specializes in biotechnology research and development. It develops immunotherapy treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Frédéric Triebel on October 17, 2001 and is headquartered Orsay, France.

Sigma Chemicals Co. is an American company that manufactures chemicals.

Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co. KG develops and supplies biotherapeutic proteins, plasmid DNA and antibody fragments. The company was founded in 1885 by Albert Boehringer and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH manufactures pharmaceutical prodcuts. It offers human and animal health products. The company was founded by Albert Boehringer in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, 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.

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.

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.

TargEDys SA develops microbiome-based solutions for appetite regulation. It provides humanity with easy means of regulating their eating behaviors for the third millennium. The company was founded by Pierre Dechelotte and Gregory Lambert 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

HepaRegeniX GmbH engages in the development of treatment for acute and chronic liver diseases. It focuses on Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 4, which unlocks the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes even in severely diseased livers. The company was founded in by Wolfgang Albrecht in 2017 and is headquartered in Tuebingen, Germany.

Founded in 2016, Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Center GmbH is a subsidiary of C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG. The company is based in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany and specializes in leasing real estate properties.

Precirix NV develops and distributes radio-immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer patients. The company was founded on October 14, 2014 by Jens De Vos, Ludwig Camusot, Nick Devoogdt, Geert Raes, Tony Lahoutte and Matthias Dhuyvetter and is headquartered in Brussels, 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.

SemaThera, Inc. engages in research and development in biotechnology. It develops novel inhibitors against semaphorin 3A (SEMA 3A) for prevention and reversal of diabetic macular edema (DME). The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Incepto Medical SAS develops and distributes artificial intelligent (AI) based medical imaging applications. It offers solutions for computed tomography (CT) scans, chest x-ray, and detections for conditions such as fracture and bowel occlusion. The company was founded by Antoine Jomier, Florence Moreau, Vincent Barrau, Jean Michel Malbrancq, and Gaspard d’Assignies and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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.

Emergence Therapeutics AG is biopharmaceutical company. It develops novel antibody drug conjugate. The company was founded by Jack Elands and Xavier Preville and is headquartered in Duisburg, Germany.

DiogenX SAS engages in the discovery and development of biologics therapeutics options of Diabetic patients. It operates in Diabetes preclinical stage business segment. The company was founded by Benjamin Charles, Patrick Collombat and Jean Pascal Tranié on December 24, 2019 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

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.