Rein Strijker

VitalneXt BV develops retails and manufactures products for healthy ageing. Its products include promanna, vital01 and other products. The firm develops products with evidence-based health benefits for the ageing population. It also develops new, proprietary, technologies, ingredients and products through its own network and through collaborations with the company's research partners. The company was founded by Rein Strijker in May 2013 and is headquartered in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

DNage is a life sciences company founded in 2004 as a spin off from the Department of Genetics of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. The Company was seed-funded through an equity investment of an international syndicate of venture capitalists including LSP (NL) and Inventages (CH). The Company's main scientific founder Prof J. Hoeijmakers is a world-renowned scientist working on DNA repair and genome stability. His team was the first to establish an explicit connection between DNA damage (lack of repair) and the process of ageing, a scientific breakthrough. DNage has acquired exclusive access to this technology and now focuses on developing therapies to reduce the effects of ageing, leveraging the unique technologies developed by its founders. DNage has matured from an early stage technology company into a drug development company with ongoing clinical trials and several research programs. It has been acquired by Pharming Group NV in October 2006 and is currently involved in a financing round whereby Pharming will reduce its ownership to a non-controlling stake. The team of the company consists of approximately 15 people. DNage has laboratory facilities and offices in Rotterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

BioPartner Center Maastricht BV provides business accommodation services to life sciences companies. The firm also supports starters and growing companies involved in the development, marketing or manufacture of biotechnological medicines, treatment methods and diagnostics industires. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.