Sergej M. Kiprijanov

Affimed NV Niederlassung Deutschland discovers and develops antibody-based therapeutic drugs. The firm generates and develops a pipeline of antibody product candidates based on proprietary technology platform. It offer therapeutic drugs that target autoimmune diseases and tumor cells. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

German Cancer Research Center offers biomedical research services. It develops novel approaches to make tumor diagnosis more precise and for a treatment of cancer. The firm provides different research programs such as cell and tumor biology, functional and structural genomics, risk factors and prevention, tumor immunology, imaging and radio oncology, and translational cancer research. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Affitech A/S engages in the development of human antibody therapeutics. It focuses on human antibodies for cancer such as hematological and solid tumors; and serious inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis and severe asthma. The firm enters into partnerships and collaborations with biotechnology companies for antibody discovery and development. The company was founded by Søren Mouritsen and Henrik Irgang Elsner on October 1, 1990 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Novoplant GmbH develops and provides veterinary medicines. It produces antibodies and antibody fragments in plants for veterinary use to fight intestinal pathogens. It received a license for the development and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies as feed components for use in veterinary medicine. It will use MorphoSys’s HuCAL GOLD technology to generate antibodies against viruses, parasites and pathogenic microorganisms. The addition of such antibodies to animal feed stock may offer protection against infectious diseases in the respective animal’s gastro-intestinal tract. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Gatersleben, Germany.