Steen Helde Hemmingsen

Evolva SA is a Swiss-headquartered, international pharmaceutical biotech company focused on the discovery and development of drugs based on its distinctive and proprietary genetic chemistry platform. The company was founded in Switzerland in 2004 based on US/Danish technology. Evolva is headquartered in Allschwil/Basel with operations in Denmark, India and the USA. The Company has raised CHF 38.2 million of equity to date and employs 75 persons of whom 30 are based in Allschwil. The firm's strategy and business approach is based on five pillars that offer a sustainable development path for creating a successful company, which include Building a balanced portfolio. Evolva focuses on orally available small molecules in the belief that they are more convenient for patients and more cost-effective both from manufacture and administration points of view for the society, focus on differentiated pharmaceutical products with major benefits. Focusing on cardiovascular/renal and infectious diseases. Together they cause more than 50% of all deaths worldwide. Most of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies are active in both sectors, and all are active in one of the two sectors - hence widening Evolva's opportunities to partner. Building technology platform as the source of this differentiation. Evolva finds different structures with different properties from those found by the 99% of the industry that focuses on synthetic chemistry or proteins. Openness to unusual markets. The biotech business model has changed. As well as the established markets new opportunities arise in emerging countries such as India and China, and in adjacent sectors such as treatments against potential bio-terrorist and bio-warfare agents and the production of pharmaceutical and industrial chemical intermediates. Cost-effective implementation. Evolva places different functions around the globe according to where local conditions best suit. This approach both reduces Evolva's cost base and increases access to revenues, partners and talent. Evolva sees revenues and partners as important because they provide additional flexibility, resources and talent. Also, they provide important opportunities to better understand, and better meet, the needs of current and future customers.

ReceptIcon is a biotech company based on the identification of novel receptors in the kidney that are responsible for renal uptake and nephrotoxity of therapeutic drugs. The company is focused on the development of receptor antagonists that prevent accumulation of therapeutics in the kidney. Such antagonists can be used as active pharmaceutical ingredients for reformulation of marketed nephrotoxic drugs thereby precluding their toxic side effects.

CellCure A/S manufactures organic chemical products. It focuses on the cultivation of human tumor-specific killer T lymphocytes with immunotherapeutic treatment of cancer. The company was founded in 2000 by Keld Kaltoft and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

ACE BioSciences A/S engages in the research and experimental development on biotechnology. It offers medical research, production, and sale of medical products. The company was founded on September 15, 2000 and is headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark.