Louis P. Lacasse

Sofinov, Societe Financiere d'Innovation, Inc. provides investment services. The firm assists new and expanding firms in key innovative sectors, including information technology, life sciences, and industrial goods, such as aeronautics and environmental technology. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Biochem Pharma, Inc. provides bioinfomatics tools, biotechnology databases and consulting services to the genomics, proteomics and biopharmaceutical industries. They provide the cutting edge strategic intelligence needed to exploit information and to develop future business strategies.

Idun Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in the discovery and development of human therapeutics to control apoptosis. The company was founded by John C. Reed, Robert H. Horvitz, and Lawrence C. Fritz in March 1993 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GeneChem Management Inc (GeneChem) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Montréal.

AgeChem Financial, Inc. engages in the provision of investment services, It seeks to invest in companies developing therapeutics targeting age-related diseases. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Warnex, Inc. engages as a life sciences company devoted to protecting public health by providing laboratory services to the pharmaceutical sector. The company was founded on January 4, 1996 and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) is a government-owned institutional fund manager headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Founded in 1965, CDPQ manages the funds of several depositor groups primarily for public and parapublic pension and insurance plans which pay out benefits to more than two million Quebecers each year.

Conatus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on the development and commercialization of novel medicines to treat chronic diseases. The firm engages in developing emricasan, an orally active pan-caspase inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with chronic liver disease and is designed to reduce the activities of human caspases. It also develops CTS-2090, an orally active selective caspase inhibitor, for diseases involving inflammasome pathways. The company was founded by Alfred P. Spada, Jennifer Giottonini Cayer, and Steven J. Mento on July 13, 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Natunola AgriTech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets proprietary natural ingredients. It offers ingredients to the personal care, food and nutraceutical markets. The company was founded on June 30, 2004 and is headquartered in Winchester, Canada.

Chromos is a cellular engineering and therapeutics company creating value through engineering production quality cell lines for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, and developing innovative therapies for infectious diseases, cancer and genetic disorders. Chromos is achieving these objectives with its ACE System (Artificial Chromosome Expression) and REM (Rapid Expansion Method) technologies. In the near term, Chromos will focus on continued commercialization of the ACE System for engineering cell lines. To date Chromos has entered into corporate partnerships related to cell line engineering with partners including Pfizer Inc., Centocor, Inc. and Cambridge Antibody Technology

Alethia Biotherapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops therapeutic mAbs against highly-disease tissue specific novel clinically-relevant targets. The firm focuses on bone loss in acute disorders, invasive carcinomas and on cancer-associated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. The company was founded in 2002 by Mario Filion and Yves Cornellier and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Aegera Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing targeted therapeutics to address major unmet medical needs. Aegera has three programs in clinical development, two for oncology and one for neuropathic pain. Aegera is also dedicated to identifying novel development candidates based upon its core technologies and internal expertise and experience in rapidly moving lead candidates through preclinical development and into clinical trials.

Aptalis Pharma Canada ULC provided pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 1982 and was headquartered in Mount Saint-Hilaire, Canada.

Nuchem Therapeutics, Inc. provides financial investment services. The firm offers medicinal chemistry services and expertise, biochemistry support, custom and contract synthesis and assay development. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Centre For Commercialization of Cancer Immunotherapy provides solution for the development, translation, and commercialization of cancer immunotherapy and regenerative medicine. It offers clinical research unit, contract research organization, and innovation and commercialization unit services. The company was founded by Lambert Busque, Denis-Claude Roy and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.