Gianni Garotta

Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the potential further development of its MAXY-G34 product, a next-generation pegylated, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, G-CSF, for the treatment of chemotherapy induced neutropenia and acute radiation syndrome. G-CSF is a natural protein that functions by stimulating the body's bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. The company was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

LEO Pharma A/S develops, manufactures and markets drugs within the area of dermatology and critical care medicine. It supplies medicines to patients suffering from skin infections and diseases such as psoriasis and eczema, thrombosis, kidney disease and cancer. The company was founded by August Kongsted and Anton Antons in 1908 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

Symbion A/S provides office communities, meeting facilities, conference facilities, business development and capital for start-up companies. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dansk Biotek is an industry association for biotech companies with promoting the biotechnological research, development and production in taking care of corporate interests in this regard, both nationally and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bracco Imaging SpA manufactures and develops diagnostic imaging solutions for public and private hospitals, imaging centers and private practices. The firm's services include radiology, X-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound applications. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Merck Serono SpA engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty pharmaceuticals. The company is headquartered in Rome, Italy.

Part of Amgen, Inc., Amgen BV is a Dutch biotech company that specializes in using living cells to create biologic medicines. The company has helped pioneer the biotech industry and are committed to discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics to patients suffering from serious illnesses. Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and typically address diseases with a limited number of treatment options. The company has a presence in approximately 100 countries and have reached millions of people with their products. Amgen has a robust pipeline focused on the pursuit of transformative medicines with large effects in serious diseases, using human genetic validation whenever possible to strengthen the evidence base for as many of their programs as possible.

Dandrit Biotech A/S conducts clinical research, trading, and manufacturing for the pharmaceutical industry. It focuses on research and development of medicines. The company was founded on April 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

IO Biotech ApS operates as a clinical stage biotech company. It develops immunotherapy for cancer by targeting a mechanism used by tumour cells to evade immune responses. The company was founded by Mai-Britt Zocca, Mads Hald Andersen, Inge Marie Svane, Anders Ljungqvist and Per Thor Straten and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Step Pharma SAS develops drugs for immunosuppressive therapies. The company was founded by Geoffroy de Ribains, Alain Fischer, and Sylvain Latour and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Valo Therapeutics Oy is an immunotherapy company based in Helsinki, FI. The Finnish company is focused on developing innovative immunotherapy approaches against cancer and infectious disease. Valo Therapeutics's lead platform, PeptiCRAd, was developed out of the laboratory of Professor Vincenzo Cerullo at the University of Helsinki. The company is also developing PeptiEnv and PeptiVax, among other neoantigen strategies, in collaboration with Professor Cerullo. The company's PeptiChip technology enables the rapid and accurate identification of tumor antigens. Valo Therapeutics is also developing antigen-coated oncolytic viruses as anti-cancer therapeutic vaccines. The company was founded in 2016, and Paul Grant Higham has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Cobis A/S provides business support services.