Yousef Al-Abed

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the potential further development of its MAXY-G34 product, a next-generation pegylated, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, G-CSF, for the treatment of chemotherapy induced neutropenia and acute radiation syndrome. G-CSF is a natural protein that functions by stimulating the body's bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. The company was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical drugs. Its products include influenza fighter Tamiflu, controversial acne medication Accutane, HIV inhibitor Fuzeon, obesity drug Xenical, and hepatitis C therapy Pegasys. The company was founded in 1896 Roche and is headquartered in Nutley, NJ.

LEO Pharma A/S develops, manufactures and markets drugs within the area of dermatology and critical care medicine. It supplies medicines to patients suffering from skin infections and diseases such as psoriasis and eczema, thrombosis, kidney disease and cancer. The company was founded by August Kongsted and Anton Antons in 1908 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

Symbion A/S provides office communities, meeting facilities, conference facilities, business development and capital for start-up companies. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Wistar Institute provides biomedical research services. It researches on diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune disorders and infectious diseases and develops vaccine. The company was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA

Proterris (Portugal) - Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Produtos Farmacêuticos, Sociedade Unipessoal Lda. develops Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Molecules (CORMs) for therepy. The company was founded by Carlos José Rodrigues Crispim Romão, Werner Ernest Hass, Nuno Manuel de Castro Santos Arante e Oliveira and Stan Kugell on January 4, 2002 and is headquartered in Oeiras, Portugal.

Dansk Biotek is an industry association for biotech companies with promoting the biotechnological research, development and production in taking care of corporate interests in this regard, both nationally and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Merck Serono SpA engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty pharmaceuticals. The company is headquartered in Rome, Italy.

Part of Amgen, Inc., Amgen BV is a Dutch biotech company that specializes in using living cells to create biologic medicines. The company has helped pioneer the biotech industry and are committed to discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics to patients suffering from serious illnesses. Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and typically address diseases with a limited number of treatment options. The company has a presence in approximately 100 countries and have reached millions of people with their products. Amgen has a robust pipeline focused on the pursuit of transformative medicines with large effects in serious diseases, using human genetic validation whenever possible to strengthen the evidence base for as many of their programs as possible.

Dandrit Biotech A/S conducts clinical research, trading, and manufacturing for the pharmaceutical industry. It focuses on research and development of medicines. The company was founded on April 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

IO Biotech ApS operates as a clinical stage biotech company. It develops immunotherapy for cancer by targeting a mechanism used by tumour cells to evade immune responses. The company was founded by Mai-Britt Zocca, Mads Hald Andersen, Inge Marie Svane, Anders Ljungqvist and Per Thor Straten and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Step Pharma SAS develops drugs for immunosuppressive therapies. The company was founded by Geoffroy de Ribains, Alain Fischer, and Sylvain Latour and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Valo Therapeutics Oy is an immunotherapy company based in Helsinki, FI. The Finnish company is focused on developing innovative immunotherapy approaches against cancer and infectious disease. Valo Therapeutics's lead platform, PeptiCRAd, was developed out of the laboratory of Professor Vincenzo Cerullo at the University of Helsinki. The company is also developing PeptiEnv and PeptiVax, among other neoantigen strategies, in collaboration with Professor Cerullo. The company's PeptiChip technology enables the rapid and accurate identification of tumor antigens. Valo Therapeutics is also developing antigen-coated oncolytic viruses as anti-cancer therapeutic vaccines. The company was founded in 2016, and Paul Grant Higham has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Natimab Therapeutics Srl operates as a biotechnology company. It specializes in the identification and early-stage clinical development of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for the treatment of infectious diseases. The company was founded by Gianni Garotta, Maurizio Denaro, Marianne Murphy and Gerritt Hagens in 2009 and is headquartered in Colleretto Giacosa, Italy.

Cobis A/S provides business support services.