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Cellectricon AB provides cell-based screening services to accelerate drug discovery. The firm develops and validates exciting central nervous system and peripheral pain assays using primary cells, accelerating the path from assay validation to compound screening. Its system is equipped with an imaging-based microplate reader to simultaneously record transient fluorescence and luminescence signals, providing real-time monitoring and readouts of cell culture response. The company was founded by Jan Owe Owesson Orwar, Daniel T. Chiu and Stig Anders Jakob Lindberg in 1999 and is headquartered in Molndal, Sweden.

International Olympic Committee Organizes Olympic games. The company was founded by Pierre de Coubertin on June 23 1894 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Karolinska Investment Fund KB is a healthcare-focused fund based in Stockholm. Targeted portfolio companies are pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology companies located in Sweden.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) is an organization that brings together around 1,300 academy members and 250 companies to bridge the gap between academia, business, and politics. The non-profit company is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish company's aim is to work towards people's ability to contribute positively to society. The organization runs an internship program called Tekniksprånget, which gives young people in Sweden the opportunity to test the engineering profession through a four-month paid internship. The program has been running since 2012 and aims to inspire more people to choose a higher technical education. The CEO of the company is Björn O. Nilsson.

Cobra Biologics Ltd. engages in development of DNA-based technologies, services and products. It is a international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) providing biologics and pharmaceuticals for pre-clinical, clinical and commercial supply. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Keele, the United Kingdom.

Cobra Biologics Holding AB manufactures biologics and pharmaceuticals for pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial products. Its services include gene therapies and vaccines, products for testing, process development and scale up of vaccine products, production of sterile drug products, and process development and production, automation, and traceability of programs. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in S?dert?lje, Sweden.

EuroScience engages in the advancement of science. The non-profit company is based in Strasbourg, France.

Part of Saniona AB, Saniona A/S is a Danish company dedicated to improving the lives of rare disease patients worldwide through scientific innovation. The company focuses on Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by insatiable appetite, abnormal growth and body composition, low muscle tone, and social/emotional/cognitive deficits. Saniona is a leader in the discovery of highly specific ion channel modulators, which is a validated approach to treating diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and epilepsy. The company's robust ion channel drug discovery engine has led to the development of San711, a first-in-class positive allosteric modulator of GABAA ?3 receptors, and San903, a potential first-in-class inhibitor of the calcium-activated potassium ion channel, KCA3.1, both of which are in development for rare neuropathic, inflammatory, and fibrotic disorders.