Mats Gunnar Pettersson

Pharmacia Corp. developed, manufactured and marketed pharmaceutical products. Prescription pharmaceuticals included general therapeutics, ophthalmology and hospital products including oncology and diversified therapeutics. It also operated in consumer health care, animal health, diagnostics and contract manufacturing and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals. The customers of the group were pharmacies, hospitals, chain warehouses, governments, physicians, wholesalers and other distributors. It was headquartered in Peapack, NJ.

Ablynx NV operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of proprietary therapeutic proteins under the Nanobodies brand. It includes haematology, inflammation, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, oncology and immune-oncology. The company was founded by Mark Vaeck in 2001 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

NsGene A/S identifies neurotrophic proteins with therapeutic effects in the nervous system. It is a biotechnology company that focuses primarily on neurodegenerative disorders. The firm provides technologies that target protein therapeutics across the blood-brain-barrier and directly to diseased nerve cells. It develops therapeutic products for multiple indications with high medical needs including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson's disease, deafness, neuropathic pain, epilepsy, cortico-basal degeneration, and Huntington’s disease. The company was founded by Lars Ulrik Wahlberg and Teit Eliot Johansen in 1999 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

to-BBB Holding BV operated as a holding company with interest in providing central nervous system drug technology to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The firm developed medicines for the treatment of brain diseases. The company was headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.

BBB Therapeutics BV develops medicines for brain disease treatment. The firm uses its platform technology to enhance the delivery of established and marketed drugs over the blood brain-barrier. It offers its patented central nervous system (CNS) drug targeting technology to their partners in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The firm's products include 2B3-101 and 2B3-201. The company was founded by Pieter Jaap Gaillard, Bert de Boer, and Alfred N. Nijkerk in 2003 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Aquapharm Biodiscovery Ltd. discovers and develops drugs. It develops products for application across the pharmaceutical, personal care and nutrition sectors. The company offers antibiotics, inflammation & dermatology, oxidative stress, high value ingredients and anti-oxidant ingredients. Aquapharm Biodiscovery was founded by Kathryn Fraser and Andrew Mearns Spragg on April 11, 2000 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, GB.

Independent Pharmaceutica AB is a privately owned company. The major owners are Karolinska Investment Fund, LH Advisory, Sandin &Co and The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen). Independent Pharmaceutica aims to provide pharmacological solutions for treatment of nicotine addiction. The company is spun out of research from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and premature death in the world.Currently over 1.2 billion people smoke worldwide and the number of annual deaths from tobacco-related diseases is over 4 million and rising. The costs for society are huge. With the new vaccine Niccine® against nicotine addiction, the health condition of millions of patients is expected to be improved.

SwedenBIO Service AB is a non-profit company that develops biotechnology, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. It also offers counseling, education, opinion formation, and investigations. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Part of Maria Magle Holding AB, Magle AB is a Swedish company that manufactures chemical products. The private company is based in Lund, Sweden.

Part of Maria Magle Holding AB, Magle Chemoswed AB is a Swedish company that designs and develops microspheres medical devices. The private company is based in Lund, Sweden.