Jesper Zeuthen

Novo Holding A/S provides financial investments and manages the Novo Nordisk Foundation?s assets. It offers seed and venture capital to development stage companies and takes ownership positions in companies within life science and biotechnology. The company was founded on September 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Topotarget A/S is a biotechnology company that is engaged in the development and commercialization of novel drugs for the treatment of cancer. Its product belinostat is a novel histone deacetylase inhibitor which is used for cancer patients. The company was founded by Peter Buhl Jensen and Maxwell Sehested in 2000 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nereus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a drug discovery and development company pursuing untapped sources of chemical diversity through identifying drug candidates derived from marine microbes. Nereus' discovery portfolio also includes additional drug candidates for oncology, inflammation, and infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Borean Pharma ApS provides biopharmaceuticals drugs and protein engineering services. Its two main components of technology platform are CTLD library technology and trimerisation technology. The company was founded by Hans Christian Thøgersen and Michael Etzerodt in 1997 and is located in Aarhus, Denmark.

BI Technology A/S (BI-T) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

LiPlasome Pharma A/S develops, produces and supplies drugs for chemotherapy treatment. It has developed a technology based on incapsulation of chemotherapy in liposomes (fatty molecules) that will only dissolve in and around cancer tissue (tumors or metastases). The firm’s technology will improve chemotherapy treatment within a wide range of cancer diseases significantly as it improves the balance between effect and side effects. LiPlasome’s first drug candicate LiplaCis which is a liposonal formulation of Cisplatin, is in clinical phase 1. The company was founded in January 2001 by Ole Gunner Mouritsen and is headquartered in Hoersholm, Denmark.

Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S discovers and develops drugs for the treatment of oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The firm manufactures a pipeline of drug candidates that act selectively on disease-related ribonucleic acid to provide patients with novel treatments for both rare and common diseases. It produces pre-clinical and clinical assets for the treatment of a range of diseases including oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Matts Lundwall and Mikael Ørum on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in Horsholm, Denmark.