Eric Meldrum

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

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.

Circassia Ltd. develops medicines for allergic and auto-immune diseases. The company was founded by Anthony Barrington Kay and Mark Larché on December 29, 1998 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Part of Solvay SA, Rhone Poulenc Rorer is a French pharmaceutical company that manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs. It manufactures and markets prescription drugs used to treat a number of diseases and conditions including cardiovascular, dermatological, central nervous system, bone disease, cancer, organ transplantation, psychiatry, infectious disease, and respiratory. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in East Hanover, NJ.

Van Lanschot Kempen NV (Broker) (Van Lanschot Kempen-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Van Lanschot Kempen NV (AMS: VLK), a financial institution headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm was founded in 1903 and formerly known as Kempen & Co. NV. Van Lanschot Kempen-Broker provides securities broking to institutional investors, companies, financial institutions, (semi) public institutions, foundations and high net-worth individual clients.

BPIFrance Investissement SAS (BPIfrance Investissement) is the private equity arm and subsidiary of State-owned Banque Publique d'Investissement in France. Formerly known as CDC Entreprises SAS, the firm was established in 1994 to carry out public-interest missions such as employment creation and momentum initiation in the private equity field. In 2013 they became BPIfrance Investissement when CDC Entreprises, FSI and FSI Régions merged. Headquartered in Paris, BPIfrance Investissement invests of behalf of the Government of France, as well as for third parties including FEI-Fonds Européen d'Investissement, BEI-Banque Européenne d'Investissement and BPCE SA. The firm invests directly or indirectly in SMEs and intermediate-sized companies at all stages of their development.

Biogeneration Management is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of BioGeneration Holding BV and was founded in 2006. Biogeneration management is headquartered in Naarden.

Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij Holding BV (BOM) is an industrial and economic development agency headquarterd in Tilburg in the southern Netherlands. Established in 1983, BOM is funded and financed by the Dutch State and the Province of Noord-Brabant. The firm offers a range of services designed to create, develop, maintain and improve the industrial structure of the region through four core activities: venture capital, foreign investment, new business and industrial parks. In particular BOM manages the Technostartersfonds, also known as the TechnoStars funds, which are regional venture capital investment vehicles based in Eindhoven. The investors are primarily institutions and high-net worth private individuals.

Novartis Pharma AG engages in the research in as well as the production and distribution of pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, and biotechnological products. It also provides related services. The company was founded on October 25, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Spark Therapeutics Ireland Ltd. develops new gene medicines to treat autosomal dominant genetic diseases. Its product RhoNova, is designed for the treatment of patients with rhodopsin linked autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa, a debilitating, progressive form of inherited blindness resulting from a diverse array of mutations in the RHO gene. The company was founded by Jane G. Farrar, Paul Kenna, and Gearóid Tuohy and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

MedDay Pharmaceuticals SAS operates as a biotechnology company developing new drugs for nervous system disorders. The firm operates for the treatment of neuro-metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Frédéric Sedel and Guillaume Brion in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Inotrem SA specializes in the development of therapeutic approaches based on its proprietary TREM-1 platform. The firm focuses on the control of immune reactions in acute inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Jean-Jacques Garaud, Marc Derive and Sebastien Gibot in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Owkin France SAS provides artificial intelligence for predictive medicine. The company was founded on September 7, 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Dynacure SA is a clinical-stage company, which engages in developing and commercializing novel therapies to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases who have limited or no treatment options. Its product includes, DYN101, an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, designed to be a disease-modifying medicine for treatment of the majority of ntronuclear myopathies patients with multiple mutations in adult and pediatric populations. The company was founded by Belinda Cowling in 2016 and is headquartered in Illikirch-Graffenstaden, France.

Part of Roche Holding AG, Hoffmann-La Roche Products Ltd. develops and manufactures pharmaceuticals and diagnostic solutions. The company is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Staten Biotechnology BV develops drugs for the treatment of dyslipidemia. The company was founded by Paul da Silva Jardine, Daniel Rader and Alan Tall in 2014 and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

DNA Script engages in the provision of research and development in biotechnology. It manufactures synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid using enzymatic technology. The company was founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel and Xavier Godron in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Sitryx Therapeutics Ltd. Focuses on regulating cell metabolism to develop disease-modifying therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. It treats cancer and inflammatory conditions by targeting the metabolism of immune cells. The company was founded by Houman Ashrafian, Paul-Peter Tak, Luke O'Neill, Jonathan Powell, Jeff Rathmell and Michael Rosenblum and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

TreeFrog Therapeutics SAS provides stem cell treatment services. It offers its expertise to patients of heart failure, diabetes, traumatic injury, skin burns, dermatitis, Huntington, and Parkinson disease. The company was founded by Maxime Feyeux, Kevin Alessandri, Jean-Luc Treillou, Erwan Bezard, Laurent Cognet, and Pierre Nassoy and is headquartered in Pessac, France.

Complement Therapeutics Ltd. develops medicines that target the complement system. The British company was founded by Richard Unwin, Simon J. Clark, and Paul Bishop. The CEO is Rafiq Hasan.