Jan Peter Olofsson

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.

IMED AB is focused on the development and commercialization of fully human monoclonal antibodies for treatment of immune disorders and diseases such as ischemia/reperfusion injury, HIV and cancer. IMED’s unique antibodies modulate the natural process of cell death called apoptosis by selective and specific blocking or induction of central signaling pathways. IMED AB is a privately owned biotechnology company funded by Karolinska Development and LinkMed AB and intends to out-license its products to pharmaceutical companies.

KDev Exploratory AB provides drug discovery solutions. It performs discovery research in various therapeutic areas, such as screening in oncology, neuroscience, lead finding, characterization in inflammation and angiogenesis/age-related macular degeneration. The company was founded by David Jern in 2000 and is headquartered in Solna, 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.

Glucox Biotech AB is a holding company. It develops clinically applicable therapeutics for treatment of type 2 diabetes; hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance and resulting complications. The firm explores new ideas for the prevention of cellular damage in ischemic stroke and heart infarction, as well the idea behind Glucox Biotech's therapies is to reduce oxidative stress by preventing the intracellular formation of reactive oxygen species. The company was founded by Ellen Mona Gratia Wilcke and Per Ingvar O. Wikström on July 1, 2003 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dilafor AB develops pharmaceutical products from heparin derivatives with low anticoagulant activity. It investigates document and exploits the pharmacological properties of derivatives in the field of obstetrics. The company was founded by Gunvor Ester Ekman-Ordeberg, Hans-Peter Ekre, Per-Olov Eriksson, Per Giléus, Kjell Gunnarsson, Erik Yngve Holmer, Göran Kvist, Ulf Lindahl, Anders Malmström, Tore Mellstrand, Johan Rasin, and Mats Wahlgren in 2003 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

NovaSAID AB develops treatments for inflammation and pain in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. It discovers selective microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1), and has also demonstrated its effect in animal models for pain and inflammation. The firm's approach is to prevent the pathological formation of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) selectively, through the development of inhibitors of mPGES-1, the enzyme that is responsible for the formation of PGE2 during inflammation. Its mPGES-1 inhibition offers an approach for inhibiting pathological PGE2 production without adversely affecting other important prostanoids. The company was founded by Per-Johan Göte Jakobsson, Ralf Morgenstern, Bertil Samuelsson and Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson on October 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Palette Life Sciences AB operates as a pharmaceutical company. It specializes in developing products for local pain relief in obstetrics and gynecology. The company was founded by Berith Karlsson Tingåker, Gunvor Ekman-Ordeberg, Arne Folke Brodin and Lars Irestedt in 2009 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.