Mike Westby

Northern Trust Global Investments Ltd. (NTGIL) is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a subsidiary of Northern Trust Management Services Ltd., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQ: NTRS) in the US. NTGIL provides passive and active investment advisory services for cash, fixed income and passive investment advisory services for equity portfolios and funds to institutional clients.

Advent Venture Partners LLP (AVP) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1981 by David James Scott Cooksey. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

easyGroup Holdings Ltd. provides business support services.

The University of Liverpool operates as a university. It offers post graduate research, foundation courses, continuing and professional development, online study, and doctoral college. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Liverpool, the United Kingdom.

Trophos SA engages in manufacturing and development of pharmaceutical products. It offers medicines to patients with conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury. The company was founded by Antoine Beret and Michel Delaage in 1991 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

Sports Revolution Ltd. provides stadium advertising services. It offers sponsorship, consultancy, sport media planning and digital services. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

France Biotech Association is an independent association founded in 1997 that brings together healthtech entrepreneurs and their expert partners. The non-profit company is based in Paris, France. The association actively contributes to meeting the many challenges of the healthtech industry, such as companies' financing, innovation-related taxes, regulatory and market access related issues. It offers concrete competition and solutions through its commissions and working groups to help startups and SMEs become international leaders capable of rapidly developing and bringing innovative solutions to patients. The French company was founded by Philippe Pouletty, Pascal Brandys, Denis J. Lucquin.

Bausch & Lomb Australia Pty Ltd. manufactures and distributes prescription medicines. It offers consumer healthcare, prescription, aesthetic skin and eyecare. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Chatswood, Australia.

The BioIndustry Association is a UK-based organization that represents the life sciences and biotech industry. The British company's mission is to facilitate and connect the ecosystem to help businesses start, grow, and deliver world-changing innovation. The non-profit company was founded by Cormac G. Kilty and Simon Geoffrey Best, and Steve Bates has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

Locate Bio Ltd. operates as a regenerative medicine development company. The firm focuses on clinical problems in which regeneration of human tissue will displace biomaterial or drug therapies. Its products are orthopaedic matrices with unique properties for hard to heal clinical applications. The company was founded by Robin Quirk and is headquartered in Nottingham, the United Kingdom.

Glaxo Wellcome Immobilière de Recherche SA provides real estate services. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Marly-le-Roi, France.

Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst offers access to equipment and facilities that would otherwise be beyond the reach of small or medium-sized companies. The company is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Loxbridge Research LLP operates as an investment and project management company. It specializes in startup, early stage, and later stage investments in growth stage companies. The firm supports scientists and focuses on sectors like science, medicine and healthcare technology particularly biotech, med-tech, noval therapeutic, diagnostics, cancer, infectious diseases, neurodegeneration, imaging hardware and software, and enabling devices. The company was founded by Charles Roberts in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Cell Therapy Catapult Ltd. engages in the development, delivery, and commercializing of cell and gene therapy. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

NCL Technology Ventures Ltd. (NCL Technology Ventures) is an venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Jerry Biggs. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Centauri Therapeutics Ltd. engages in manufacturing processing drugs in pharmaceutical preparations for life threatening diseases. The firm focuses on on the discovery and development of novel molecules targeting life threatening diseases. The company was founded by Mike Westby and Stuart Lawson and is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

Ducentis Biotherapeutics Ltd. develops novel therapies for inflammation and autoimmune disease. The company was founded by Rebecca Ashfield, David Blackbourn and Philip Huxley in March 2015 and is headquartered in Witney, the United Kingdom.

Viramal Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company and develops drugs for male and female sexual and hormone problems. The company was founded by Oliver Bates and Finn Larsen in 2013 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Herotech Ltd. provides business support services. The private company is based in London, UK.

Project Andiamo Ltd. designs and manufactures orthoses using 3D printer. The company was founded by Lee Provoost, Naveed Parvez and Samiya Parvez in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

DJS Antibodies Ltd. designs and discovers novel therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against G-protein-coupled receptors. The firm conducts discovery against three targets in the fields of oncology, fibrosis and vascular disease. The company was founded by David Colin Conway Llewellyn and Joseph James Illingworth and is headquartered in Bicester, the United Kingdom.

Azadyne Ltd. is an Irish preclinical biotech company that has identified a new target within the body and a previously undrugged pathway to treat autoimmune diseases. Azadyne is based in Dublin2, IE. The company is able to selectively control natural regulatory pathways to modify specific pathogenic immune populations. The company's groundbreaking work in RNA modification has been supported by investment syndicates led by NCL. The company was founded in 2019 by Jason Rutt, Vincent Kelly, Stephen Connon, and Mike Southern to commercialize the pioneering work on the QTRT or TGT pathway carried out in Profs Kelly, Connon & Southerns labs at Trinity College Dublin.

Rinri Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company developing a novel cell-based therapy to restore hearing. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

Alert Technology Ltd. engages in the manufacture of electronic measuring and esting equipment. The company was founded on August 29, 2005 and is headquartered in Devon, the United Kingdom.

Aston Tower Multi-Academy Trust is a British educational institution management company founded in 2016. The non-profit company is based in Birmingham, UK. The company manages educational institutions.

Pheno Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company. The firm develops remyelinating therapies for the unmet need for a neuroprotective therapy for multiple sclerosis. The company was founded on October 31, 2018 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Pencil Biosciences Ltd. develops gene modulation technology. The company was founded on November 5, 2018 and is headquartered in Macclesfield, the United Kingdom.

Ampersand Health Ltd. engages in the development of digital therapeutics for inflammatory conditions. It offers My IBD Care and My Arthritis. The company was founded by Nader Alaghband, Gareth Cecil Parkes and Bu' Hayee on September 24, 2018 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Epitopea Ltd. is a British transatlantic biotechnology company that develops immunotherapies to treat cancer by targeting a new class of antigens that are broadly shared between patients with the same cancer indication. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. The company has an extensive proprietary library of cryptigen™ tsas that will drive the development of transformational off the shelf cancer immunotherapies. Epitopea was founded in 2021 by Jonathan David Moore, Claude Perreault, and Pierre Thibault. Jonathan David Moore has been the CEO since 2021.

RQ Biotechnology Ltd. is a British company that provides biotechnology research and development services. The company was founded in 2021 by Michael Westby, Jane Osbourn, Paul Kellam. Hugo Rupert Alexander Fry has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Lifearc Ventures (Lifearc Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Lifearc. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Orphan Europe SARL develops and distributes orphan drugs for the treatment of rare diseases. The firm's products include Normosang, Cystagon, Pedea, Carbaglu, Wilzin, Cystadane. The company was founded by William Gunnarsson in 1990 and is headquartered in Puteaux, France.

Horizon Discovery Ltd. develops and supplying patient-relevant drug discovery and diagnostic research tools. The frm also supplies genetically-defined cell lines, reporter gene assay kits, genomic reference standards and contract research services to organizations engaged in bio-pharmaceutical process optimization, drug discovery & development, and clinical diagnostic development. The company was founded by Christopher John Torrance and Alberto Bardelli on February 14, 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Yellow Brick Capital Advisers Private Equity (Yellow Brick Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in London.