Ross Howard Durland

Cell Medica Switzerland AG engages in the research, development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical, biological, medical, and diagnostic products. It provides locally and systemically applied antibody therapeutics under the PENTRA Body platform. The company was founded by Thomas O. Hecht on September 4, 2009 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Switzerland.

Kuur Therapeutics provides clinical cellular therapeutics services. It develops, manufactures and markets personalized cellular immunotherapeutics for infectious disease and cancer. Cell Medica has developed proprietary production technology enabling GMP compliant manufacture of antigen-specific T cells. The company was founded by Gregg Sando in 2006 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Valentis lead drug candidate, Deltavasc, may treat peripheral arterial and ischemic heart disease with a gene that spurs new blood vessels to form (a process known as angiogenesis). In early stages of development are DNA vaccines for HIV, hepatitis C, and other viral infections. Another drug candidate, eNOS, could prevent tissue rejection in transplant recipients. The company licenses its technology -- include the GeneSwitch platform, which can turn off or on gene therapies -- to other drugmakers. These licensees include Genzyme, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Chromos is a cellular engineering and therapeutics company creating value through engineering production quality cell lines for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, and developing innovative therapies for infectious diseases, cancer and genetic disorders. Chromos is achieving these objectives with its ACE System (Artificial Chromosome Expression) and REM (Rapid Expansion Method) technologies. In the near term, Chromos will focus on continued commercialization of the ACE System for engineering cell lines. To date Chromos has entered into corporate partnerships related to cell line engineering with partners including Pfizer Inc., Centocor, Inc. and Cambridge Antibody Technology

Altea Therapeutics Corp. develops pharmaceutical products. It offers PassPort patch, a skin patch that uses short bursts of focused thermal energy to create tiny channels in the surface of the skin and these channels permit the flow of proteins, peptides, carbohydrates, and small molecules into the body without the use of needles. The firm also provides Transdermal vaccine patch, a delivery system for water-soluble drugs and proteins; disease prevention products; insulin skin patch, a non-injectable daily insulin product; and opioid patches that provide delivery of opioids and incorporates the layers of deterrents. The company was founded by Jonathan A Eppstein and Deborah Eppstein in 1998 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.