Louis Declerck

Corixa Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops and manufactures oncology and immunology products. The firm offers vaccines, immunotherapeutic, monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics, adjuvant and antigen delivery systems, toxin-conjugated, and antigen-specific diagnostic products. The company was founded by Steven H. Gillis and Mark McDade in 1994 and is headquartered in Hamilton, MT.

DSM BV engages in the provision of ingredients, expertise, and solutions for plant-based products. It operates through the following segments: Animal Nutrition and Health (ANH); Health, Nutrition, and Care (HNC); Food and Beverage (F and B); and Other. The ANH segment includes developing sustainable animal farming through essential products, performance solutions, and precision services serving the poultry, swine, ruminants, and aquaculture markets. The HNC segment provides health, nutrition, and care solutions for markets such as early life nutrition, dietary supplements, pharma, medical, and personal care. The F and B segment focuses on supporting healthy diets through nutritious, delicious, and sustainable solutions for several market segments including bakery, beverages and brewing, dairy, savory, plant-based alternative proteins, and pet food. The Other segment is involved in corporate activities. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Heerlen, the Netherlands.

Andera Partners SCA (Andera Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Pierre-Michel Passy. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV (PMV) is a private equity/venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Region of Flanders founded in 1995. Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Part of Verizon Communications, Inc., MCI BeLux is a telecommunications and internet service provider. The company is based in Diegem, Belgium.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Ogeda SA discovers and develops small molecule drugs. It develops NK3 antagonists for the treatment of hormone-dependent pathologies in the field of Women's Health. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Spain.

Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux Finance SA provides financial services to raise funds for the business operations. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Altamar Private Equity SGIIC SA (Altamar Private Equity) is a private equity arm of Altamar Capital Partners SL founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Spain with additional offices in New York and Santiago de Chile.

FORMAC Pharmaceuticals NV engages in drug delivery and development services. The firm applies its silica based drug delivery platforms for improving in vivo performance of poorly soluble compounds. The company was founded by Johan A. Martens, Paul Joseph Rutgeerts, Guy Van den Mooter and Jan Baptist Van Humbeeck in 2007 and is headquartered in Heverlee, Belgium.

Hunza Management SARL is a private equity firm headquartered in Luxembourg. The current firm was established in 1998 to manage Hunza Ventures, the venture capital investment vehicle of the family of the retired Belgian entrepreneur Guy Ullens. Baron Guy Ullens de Schooten and the Wittouck family built up and controlled the diversified European food manufacturing group Artal, based in Luxembourg and historically focused on the Belgian sugar industry.

PROMETHERA Biosciences SA discovers, develops and commercializes cell therapy products to treat liver diseases. It operates as a pharmaceutical company that develops treatment based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. The firm’s technology platform is based on a newly discovered cell type, isolated from normal human adult liver tissue: Heterologous Human Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (HHALPC). The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal and Eric Halioua on February 12, 2009 and is headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.

Amakem NV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It uses kinase inhibitors for treatments of bowel, eye, and lung diseases. The company was founded by Jack Elands, Dirk Leysen, Olivier Raynald Defert, and Nadya Kaval on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Exact Imaging, Inc. provides high resolution micro-ultrasound systems enabling real-time imaging and guided biopsies in the urological market for prostate cancer. Its ExactVu micro-ultrasound platform operates at 29 MHz and enables a whole new level of resolution with the benefits of ease of use, affordability, and being an extension of the current urological workflow. The company was founded by Sam Ifergan and Randy AuCoin in 2013 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Sofia BV provides wireless telecommunication services. The private company is based in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. The CEOs are Ann Dendoncker, Chris Buyse, Pieter-Jan Buyse. The Belgian company was founded in 1999.

iTeos Therapeutics SA engages in the discovery of immunomodulators for cancer therapy. It operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on targeting metabolism of the tumor microenvironment through development of small-molecule immunomodulators for cancer treatment. The firm develops small molecules designed to target the tumor microenvironment by inhibiting cancer-induced immune suppression. Targeting such resistance mechanisms will enhance the clinical efficacy of both standards of care treatments as well as the newer immunomodulatory therapies based on the blockade of immune checkpoints. The company was founded in 2011 by Michel Detheux and Benoit Van den Eynde and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

Novadip Biosciences SA operates as a advanced biopharmaceutical company that develops cell-based therapies to treat patients with critical size bone defects and severe bone diseases. Its proprietary product, Creost, is a natural scaffold-free and tridimensional bone structure, which reconstructs large bone defects without the need of any biomaterial. The firm is a osteogenic living implant with a mineralization similar to a real bone. Its Creost is an autologous cell based-therapy product obtained from Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (AMSCs) which promotes (i) a perfect engraftment without any scaffold and (ii) a tissue remodeling with all native bone properties. Novadip Biosciences was founded by Jean-Fran?ois Pollet and Denis Dufrane in 2013 and is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Minoryx Therapeutics SL engages in the development of drugs for the orphan genetic diseases of the central nervous system. The company was founded by Marc Martinell, Joan Aymami, Nigel Ten Fleming and Xavier Barril in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

FEops NV develops novel simulation technology. It provides cardiovascular device and procedure simulation advice to medical device companies, as well as to medical specialists and physicians. The firm develops disruptive technology: a cloud-based simulation platform designed to assist clinicians in assessing the effect of device-and-host interaction, with the ultimate goal of predicting and preventing complications of transcatheter-based structural heart interventions. The company was founded by Benedict Verhegghe, Matthieu De Beule and Peter Mortier in 2009 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Aelix Therapeutics SL researches and develops therapies for HIV. It develops therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapies to treat HIV infection. The firm is a spin-off of HIVACAT, the Catalan project for the development of effective vaccines against HIV. The company was founded by Christian Brander, Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell and Jordi Naval is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Confo Therapeutics NV develops pharmaceutical products. It is a drug discovery company building internal drug discovery programs on GPCRs addressing unmet medical need. The company was founded by Jan Steyaert and Toon Laeremans in June 2015 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV develops novel immunotherapies to overcome cancers and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Carlo Heirman, Kris Thielemans and Sonja van Meirvenne in January 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Niel, Belgium.

Horama SA engages in the development of gene therapies, It focuses on ophthalmological diseases for preserving visual autonomy of patients. The company was founded by Denis Cayet, Christian Hamel, Guylene Le Meur, Philippe Moullier, Vasiliki Kalatzis, and Michel Weberin March 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH develops, manufactures and wholesales drugs. It focuses on the discovery, development and clinical validation of noncoding RNA therapeutics targeting microRNAs as medicines for patients with various forms of heart failure. The company was founded by Sandor Batkai, Claudia Ulbrich, and Thomas Thum on July 21, 2016 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany.

Immunic AG develops pharmaceuticals in the immunology space. The firm offers immune modulators to block TH17-and TH1-mediated immune and autoimmune responses. The company was founded by Andreas Muhler and Manfred Groppel in April 2016 and is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

Indigo Diabetes NV develops a needle-free glucose sensor by exploiting groundbreaking photonics technology. Its product addresses the need for accurate, low-cost glucose monitoring systems with an optimal user experience. The company was founded by Danae Delbeke on November 17, 2016 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Aelin Therapeutics NV develops drugs for antibiotics and first-in-class therapeutics. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2017. The CEO is Els Beirnaert.

EPICS Therapeutics SA engages in the development of therapeutic solutions for cancer. The company was founded by Jean Combalbert, Alain Parthoens and Francois Fuks on February 20, 2018 and is headquartered in Charleroi, Belgium.

Ona Therapeutics SL is a biotech company based in Barcelona, Spain that specializes in discovering and developing therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. The Spanish company's focus is on developing novel therapies against advanced cancer. The company was founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar Benitah and Valerie Liesbeth Brigitte Vanhooren, with Valerie Liesbeth Brigitte Vanhooren serving as CEO since incorporation.

Exevir Bio BV is engaged in biotechnology services. The company is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

TargED Biopharmaceuticals BV is a Dutch company that develops biological drugs. The company is based in Utrecht, Netherlands. The company was founded by Coen Maas, Kristof Vercruysse, Marc van Moorsel, Steven de Maat. Kristof Vercruysse has been the CEO since incorporation.

Cellaïon SA is a biotech company located in Mont Saint Guibert, Belgium. Cellaïon aims to restore a favorable environment to reboost the regenerative process of the liver and ensure a second life to the native liver instead of losing it. The Belgian company has a strong IP base issued from their own research and academic research at UCLouvain, developed with the objective to generate new products. Cellaïon's treatment covers the wide spectrum of liver diseases, from the highly life-threatening acute-on-chronic liver-failure (ACLF) and acute alcoholic hepatitis, to intermediate severity acute decompensation of cirrhosis (AD) and progressive chronic liver diseases caused by non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The company has built up a series of R&D and collaborative partnerships with both industrial and academic partners, allowing Cellaïon to broaden and accelerate its clinical development. The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal, who has been the CEO since incorporation.