Harry Relouw

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

BMEYE BV operates as a non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring company. The firm manufactures and distributes non-invasive technology, hemodynamic monitoring equipment and related medical devices. It offers finger arterial pressure and cardiac output technologies. The company was founded in April 2005 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

Part of Sanofi, Pharming NV is a Belgian company that develops therapeutic products for the treatment of a range of medical indications. The company is based in Geel, Belgium. Pharming was acquired by Genzyme Corp., a subsidiary of Sanofi from Pharming Group NV on October 30, 2001.

Eurazeo Investment Managr - EIM SA (Eurazeo IM) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1997 by Christophe Bavière and part of the Eurazeo Group. Eurazeo Investment Manager - EIM SA is headquartered in Paris with additional offices in Frankfurt, Shanghai and Seoul. The firm is formerly known as Idinvest Partners SA, former AGF Private Equity SA.

Karolinska Development AB (Private Equity) (Karolinska Development) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Karolinska Development AB founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Solna.

Domain Therapeutics SA discovers and develops drug candidates targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) in all major therapeutic fields. The firm?s products include technologies, such as DTect-All and BioSens-All. Its services encompass allosteric modulators identification, biased ligands selection, orphan and historically intractable GPCRs address and high throughput screening campaign. The company was founded by Maurice Isra?l, Pierre Potier, Bernard Jacques Alex Gilly, Yves Dunant and Pascal Neuville in 2008 and is headquartered in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France.

MyCartis NV develops technologies for healthcare personalization needs. It offers Evalution, a multiplex analysis platform to develop protein and nucleic-acid based clinical biomarkers. The company provides disruptive solutions in the fields of clinical and translational research for various applications in the detection of proteins and nucleic acids, such as sandwich immunoassays, antibody assays, genotyping assays, and mutation analysis assays to customers and partners. It offers products for various disease areas, including cell signalling, cardiovascular, oncology, and preeclampsia. The company was founded by Koen Kas in August 2004 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Intrexon ActoBiotics NV manufactures biopharmaceutical products. It focuses on the development and commercialization of a new generation of biological drugs. The company represents a novel concept for oral administration of therapeutic proteins, and is designed to be safer and more effective than injectable biopharmaceuticals. Intrexon Actobioticswas founded by Mark Vaeck, Emil Pot and Bernard Coulie in June 2006 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

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.

Part of Sanofi, Genzyme Europe BV is a Dutch company that develops and manufactures pharmaceutical and biotherapeutic products. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

OxThera AB develops pharmaceutical products for treatment of hyperoxaluria. Its intellectual property includes worldwide patents for compositions and treatment of hyperoxaluria with bacteria and enzymes. The firm?s products in pipeline include Oxabact, for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria and oxazyme for the prevention of oxalate malabsorption and recurring kidney stones in secondary hyperoxaluria. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Aprea Therapeutics AB operates as a holding company that provides research performed at Karolinska Institutet. It focuses its activities on discovery and development of novel anticancer compounds targeting the tumor suppressor protein. Its product has been tested in a Phase I/II dose escalating safety study in patients with refractory hematological malignancies or prostate carcinoma. It pursues the development of an anticancer drug, APR-246, which has p53-based mechanism for patients with ovarian cancer. The company was founded by Klas Gosta Wiman, Galina Selivanova, Vladimir Bykov, Wenjie Bao, Natalia Issaeva, and Staffan Strömblad in 2003 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

AM-Pharma BV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of proprietary recombinant human Alkaline Phosphatase. The firm’s products include Acute Kidney Injury, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Hypophosphatasia. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bunnik, the Netherlands.

Kurma Partners SA (KP) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Thierry Laugel. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

CDC Entreprises Innovation provides venture capital services. It invests in information technology, communication, life sciences and semi-conductor industries. The company is headquartered in France.

Ovizio Imaging Systems SA develops and markets imaging systems and sensors. Its microscopes include iLine F, iLine M, iLine S and QMod. The company was founded by Catherine Yourassowsky, Frank Dubois, Philip Mathuis and Serge Jooris in December 2009 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Modus Therapeutics AB operates as a clinical-stage drug development company that develops new pharmaceutical therapies designed to restore impaired blood flow and oxygen transport in diseases with unmet medical needs. The firm’s product Sevuparin, evaluates in a phase II clinical trial in sickle cell disease (SCD) and repeated painful crises in SCD, so called vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) that leads to loss of vital organ function and reduced life span. The company was founded by Carl Mats Wahlgren in 2011 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Biogazelle NV is a research and development stage biotechnology firm. It specializes in ribonucleic acid for next generation diagnostics in the field of oncology and other diseases. The company was founded by Jan Hellemans and Jo Vandesompele in 2007 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV develops novel immunotherapies to overcome cancers and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Carlo Heirman, Kris Thielemans and Sonja van Meirvenne in January 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Niel, Belgium.

ONWARD Inc develops medical devices. It also provides stimulation system to rehabilitate individuals with spinal cord injury. The company was founded by Jocelyn Bloch, Sjaak Deckers, Grégoire Courtine, and Vincent Delattre in December 2014 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dynacure SA is a clinical-stage company, which engages in developing and commercializing novel therapies to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases who have limited or no treatment options. Its product includes, DYN101, an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, designed to be a disease-modifying medicine for treatment of the majority of ntronuclear myopathies patients with multiple mutations in adult and pediatric populations. The company was founded by Belinda Cowling in 2016 and is headquartered in Illikirch-Graffenstaden, France.

ReWind Therapeutics NV is a biotech company based in Leuven, Belgium that develops first-in-class remyelinating therapies for myelin-related diseases. The Belgian company's aim is to bring these therapies into fast-track clinical development. Myelin-related diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, are those where the myelin sheath surrounding nerves is damaged, leading to deficient nerve transmission that may affect multiple functions, including sensation, cognition, and movement, among others. ReWind Therapeutics develops first-in-class therapeutics designed to re-initiate the process of remyelination in patients suffering from major debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis, or nerve injuries. The company's team has extensive R&D expertise and has built a strong patent estate for developing novel remyelination therapeutics. The company was founded in 2017 by Ku Leuven's Centre for Drug Design and Discovery (CD3) and Axxam S.p.A. The CEO of the company since 2021 is Anja Harmeier.

Vico Therapeutics BV is a private biotech company based in Leiden, Netherlands that focuses on developing RNA modulating therapies for rare severe neurological disorders. The Dutch company's antisense oligonucleotide platform (AON) is directed towards different forms of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) and Huntington disease (HD), while its early discovery RNA editing platform is directed towards Rett syndrome. Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Gail Mandel, and Dr. Judith van Deutekom, who have strong academic reputations and vast industry experience. Micah Mackison has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Flamingo Therapeutics BV is a Belgian company that specializes in developing RNA-targeted therapies for oncology. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium and was founded by Mike Garrett and Floor Stam. Flamingo is dedicated to delivering therapeutic benefit to patients living with cancer and believes that their programs and approach can successfully address large unmet medical needs where RNA-targeting can be effective. The company's clinical-stage pipeline focuses on targeting undruggable transcription factors and splice variants. The CEO is Stephane van Rooijen.

Pharvaris GmbH operates as a clinical-stage company. It specializes in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and development and hereditary angioedema. The company was founded by Berndt A. E. Modig, Jochen Knolle, Anne Lesage and Hans G. C. P. Schikan in October 2015 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

EQT Life Sciences Group BV (EQT Life Sciences) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of EQT AB founded in 2022 after the acquisition of LSP by EQT. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Breye Therapeutics ApS is a biopharmaceutical company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Danish company develops novel, oral ophthalmology drugs to address the needs of millions of patients suffering from deteriorating vision due to diabetic retinopathy (DR) or age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Breye Therapeutics' lead program with Danegaptide has a clinically de-risked safety profile and potential for a short and well-accepted clinical regulatory pathway. The company aims to provide less burdensome and more effective treatments for DR and AMD patients, which are currently treated with unpopular intravitreal injections directly into the eye. The company was founded in 2019, and the CEO is Ulrik Mouritzen.