Johan Kördel

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Iconic Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of serious eye disorders. Its product ICON-1, is a novel immune-conjugate fusion protein that works with the body’s immune system to address the root causes of inflammation and angiogenesis together, potentially altering the course of causes of blindness. The company was founded by Alan Garen, Kirk Dornbush, and Michael I. Sherman in 2003 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in biotechnology services. The company is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Industrifonden is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Government of Sweden founded in 1979. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm.

Promega Corp. manufactures enzyme systems. Its products include cell biology, nucleic acid analysis, drug development, molecular diagnostics, and lab equipment and supplies. The company was founded by William Alderman Linton in 1978 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Direct Conversion AB manufactures and supplies X-Ray detectors such as cadmium telluride (CdTe) detectors. Its products include XC-THOR, XC-HYDRA, XC-TDI, XC-ACTAEON, SNAP 225, SNAP 150 and SNAP 100X2. The firm’s products are used in the dental, medical, welding, industrial, food and security industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Danderyd, Sweden.

Part of Merck KGaA, EMD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a company that manufactures pharmaceutical preparations. The company is based in Durham, NC. The company was founded by Nancy J. Wysenski.

Acacia Pharma Ltd. develops supportive care product opportunities for post-surgical and cancer patients. It specializes in the discovery and development of cancer supportive care product opportunities based on established drugs. The firm’s product pipeline addresses supportive care indications, such as post-operative and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, xerostomia and cachexia. The company was founded by Andrew Muncey, Julian Clive Gilbert and Robert William Gristwood in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Sanifit Therapeutics SA develops pharmaceuticals for calcification disorders. Its pipeline consists of treatments for calcification disorders, such as calciphylaxis and osteoporosis. The company was founded by Felix Grases in 2004 and is headquartered in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Respiratorius AB engages in the development of drug candidates for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, asthma, and cancer. The company was founded by Lars Christer Fedrik Fåhraeus and Staffan Skogwall in 1999 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Part of AFRY AB, PRC Engineering AB provides engineering and technical consulting services. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden. PRC Engineering was acquired by AFRY AB from PRC Group AB on February 24, 2015.

Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Pierce Biotechnology, Inc. is a company that offers a range of innovative, high-quality products for protein biology research. The company is based in Rockford, IL. The company's products include Pierce antibodies, SuperSignal chemiluminescent substrates, Pierce BCA protein assays, and other research tools and reagents.

Ziarco Pharma Ltd. provides therapeutics targeting inflammatory and allergic diseases. It focuses on chronic inflammatory skin diseases, atopic dermatitis, and Psoriasis. The company was founded by Michael Yeadon, Wai Leung Liu, Lynn Worth Purkins and Arif Kassam Shivji in 2012 and is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

SARomics Biostructures AB provides protein three-dimensional structure determination and structure-based drug discovery services. The firm develops premium structural biology services. It offers crystallography services, which include crystallization screen and structure determination, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy services, such as ligand binding assays/fragment screening, structure determination, and verification of the structural integrity of target protein, gene-to-structure services, such as protein cloning, expression, purification, and structure determination, kinase structures and kinobits, which include pre-made complexes of kinases with small-molecule fragments to serve as a starting point in a discovery project, structure-based drug discovery services, such as hit identification, hit optimization, and lead generation, gene-to lead services, including a combination of gene-to-structure and structure-based drug discovery, and structure-activity protein optimization services. The company was founded by Björn Ulrik Walse, Sven Anders Mikael Akke, Derek W. Logan, Salam Al-Karadaghi, and Bo Svensson in 2006 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. The firm discovers and develops immuno-oncology drugs, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of cancer diseases. It specializes in clinical development, and glyco-immune checkpoint inhibitors. The company was founded by Jim Broderick, Carolyn Bertozzi and Paul Crocker in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Curzion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical firm. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Actio Biosciences, Inc. is an American precision medicine company that focuses on developing new therapeutics for rare and common diseases by targeting shared genetics. Actio Biosciences was founded in October 2021 and is based in an undisclosed location. The company applies its expertise in genetics, drug discovery, and data sciences to identify programs where both biological and technical risk can be minimized to streamline the drug development process and bring forward potent and precisely targeted therapeutics. The company is led by leaders in genetics and drug development and backed by top healthcare investors.

Ananke Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutic medicines for patients.

Chroma Medicine, Inc. is a biotechnology company that pioneers a new class of genomic medicines using epigenetics to deliver precise, programmable single-dose therapeutics while preserving genomic integrity. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and has subsidiaries in Italy. The company's modular platform enables the development of medicines that can address a wide range of complex diseases, whether they require silencing, activation, or targeting multiple genes at once. Chroma Medicine was founded by the world's foremost experts in genomic research and is led by a veteran team of industry leaders and scientists with deep experience in genomic medicine, drug discovery, and development. Catherine Stehman-Breen has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Vertex Ventures HC (Vertex Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of Carrick Therapeutics Ltd., Carrick Therapeutics UK Ltd. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Oxford, UK. Carrick Therapeutics translates in-house and in-licensed assets to target the most aggressive and resistant forms of cancer, working in combination with existing oncology drugs to address unmet patient needs. The British company focuses on developing innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes in oncological therapy. The company's therapies have potential in advanced breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers, with further potential in pancreatic and Ewing's sarcoma. Timothy R. Pearson has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Verseau Therapeutics, Inc. provides immuno-therapy services. The company was founded by Daniel Anderson, Robert Langer, Igor Feldman, and Tatiana Novobrantseva in 2017 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.