Patrick Baeuerle

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Tularik, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of a broad range of novel and superior orally available medicines that act through the regulation of gene expression. Tularik's scientific platform is focused on three therapeutic areas: cancer, inflammation and metabolic disease. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

MPM Bioimpact Inc (MPM Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Ansbert K. Gadicke and Luke B. Evnin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Micromet AG developed, manufactured and marketed novel antibody derived therapeutics for the treatment and control of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. It's goal was to commercialize products in these indication areas that have significant unmet medical needs. Founded in 1993, the company was headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Part of Amgen, Inc., Amgen Research (Munich) GmbH is a biotechnology company based in Munich, Germany. The company has over 850 employees working at two locations in Germany. Amgen Scholars Europe Programs offer practical research experience to 100 students from all over Europe every summer. The private company utilizes biotechnological possibilities to develop innovative treatments for diseases. The company continuously develops new substances to provide biopharmaceuticals to patients worldwide with serious illnesses. The CEOs of the company are Peter Kufer and Robert Saller. Amgen Research (Munich was acquired by ECKA Granulate GmbH & Co. KG from Aurubis AG on June 13, 2002.

TeGenero AG discovers and develops novel therapeutics. It is a biopharmaceutical company providing services in the identification and development of effective and applicable therapeutics for the treatment of severe immunological disorders. It's first development candidate TGN1412, a SuperMAB with specificity for the T cell surface receptor CD28 is in non-clinical development. Clinical applications of SuperMAB and its derived compounds are expected to solve unmet medical needs in the fields of cancer-related immunodeficiencies such as B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and autoimmune/inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Wurzburg, Germany.