Birgit Zech

Anavo Therapeutics BV is a Dutch company that specializes in developing first-in-class therapeutic programs for several indications in oncology. The company is based in Leiden, Netherlands. The company has attracted world-leading scientific expertise in phosphatase-driven disease biology and drug discovery to unlock the full potential of phosphatase-targeted allosteric modulators. Anavo is the first company to systematically drug phosphatases, a rich target space previously considered undruggable for decades. Anavo is backed by blue-chip investors m ventures, inkef capital, taiho ventures, mrl ventures fund, and bioqube ventures. The company was founded by Claus Schalper, Birgit Zech, Gerhard Müller. Birgit Zech has been the CEO since incorporation.

Gotham Therapeutics Corp. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical medicines. The firm develops new treatment options for patients suffering from cancers, auto-immune and neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Samie Jaffrey in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GPC Biotech AG is a biotechnology company discovering and developing new anticancer drugs.It is headquartered in Martinsried/Munich (Germany). The Company's wholly owned U.S. subsidiary has research and development sites in Waltham, Massachusetts and Princeton, New Jersey

Pieris AG develops and markets Anticalin-brand proteins. The firm specializes in the research and development of its Anticalin technology, with focus on deriving therapeutic proteins from human lipocalins. It focuses on solving pharmacological and pharmaceutical limitations of both protein- and non-protein-based drug platforms. It offers a pipeline of Anticalin therapeutics that has active and multi-program research and development collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Arne Skerra, Steffen Schlehuber, and Claus Schalper in 2001 and is headquartered in Freising, Germany.