Peter Reinemer

Opterion Health AG is a Swiss company that focuses on bringing innovation to dialysis care and fostering home dialysis to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Opterion Health is based in Muttenz, CH. The private company aims to increase the survival rates of people with ESRD and reduce healthcare costs. The company was founded in 2012 by Guido Grentzmann, and the CEO is Bjorn Englund.

Proteros biostructures GmbH is a holding company which serves as a discovery service business. Its business areas are Discovery Pipeline, Discovery Services and Science & Technology. The Discovery Pipeline focuses on protein biochemistry, X-ray crystallography, biophysics, computational chemistry and property driven medicinal chemistry, Discovery Services offers drug discovery services with expertise and proprietary technologies for protein production, protein structure analysis, kinetic and thermodynamic profiling and Science & Technology segment focuses on industrialized structure-guided lead development infrastructure. The company was founded by Robert Huber and Torsten Neuefeind in 1999 and is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

InterMed Discovery is an emerging world class Natural Product lead-discovery company, driving innovation through the generation of novel product candidates for the life science, food and cosmetics industries. Using one of the most powerful validated Natural Product discovery engines, InterMed Discovery generates proprietary product pipelines of early stage pharmaceuticals and functional ingredients and also supports partners in research and lead generation. Biologically characterized product leads are identified using IMD Bioprofiling and NPsilico, which together comprise a proprietary bioinformatics platform drawing on screening results compiled over many years, complemented by primary biological and chemical research on Natural Products. InterMed Discovery adds to this the industry's largest collections of pure compounds, sample fractions and mixtures as its source for potential Natural Product LEADs. The Company is located in Dortmund, Germany and was founded in 2006 as a Management-Buy-Out of the Natural Products Research Unit of BAYER HealthCare AG. This heritage within a major pharmaceutical company means that, although a new company, InterMed Discovery started life with a highly experienced senior staff as well as the unique sample libraries and data bases drawing on over 20 years of Natural Product research. Presently, InterMed Discovery comprises a total staff of 30 with 16 members dedicated to research. The laboratories at the BioTech Center (BMZ) in Dortmund contain libraries of more than 150,000 screening samples, compounds, and production facilities for micro- to multi-gram scales.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical drugs. It offers pharmaceuticals and therapeutics in the areas of diagnostic imaging, hematology and cardiology, cancer, women's health and several other chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1979 and is located in Wayne, NJ.

Bayer CropScience AG manufactures and distributes pesticides, and vegetable seeds. Its products include crops such as cotton, fruits and vegetables, oil seeds and wheat, brands includes fungicides, herbicides and seeds growth. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered In Monheim am Rhein, Germany.

Bayer HealthCare AG provides healthcare, agriculture, plastics and chemical products. It is an independent company comprising five divisions: Animal Health, Consumer Care, Diabetes Care, Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals. The company covers the fields of animal health, genetically produced medicines, over the counter products, diagnostic products and prescription drugs. The company is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany.