Christoph Aufricht

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company that sells and markets products to community-based primary care physicians through its primary care sales force in the United States. It markets two products namely, ANTARA fenofibrate capsules, a cardiovascular product and FACTIVE gemifloxacin mesylate tablets, a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. It also has late-stage antibiotic candidate, Ramoplanin for the treatment of clostridium difficile-associated disease. The company was founded on May 09, 1961 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Genencor International, Inc. develops and manufactures enzyme product solutions for industrial, agricultural and health care markets. It finds genes and alters their proteins for use in cleaning, textile, health care, food and animal feed products using gene discovery, molecular evolution, functional genomics and immunology techniques. The company also develops solutions for the biofuels, biodefense and biosafety industries. Genencor International was founded in 1982 and is located in Rochester, NY.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Its medical products include xyrem, erwinaze, vyxeos, and kidrolas. The company was founded by Bruce C. Cozadd in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Naurex, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage company, which develops therapies. The firm offers therapies for depression and other disorders in the central nervous system based on a mechanism of action for modulating the NMDA receptor (NMDAR). It offers a line of chemical drug classes, such as glycine-site functional partial agonists, which modulate the receptor in a different way than existing NMDAR agents. The firm provides GLYX-13, an NRX-1050 small molecule series and additional compounds for treatment-resistant depression. The company was founded by Joseph R. Moskal in 2006 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

TVM Capital GmbH (TVMC) is an international venture capital firm headquartered in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1983, the firm was formerly known as Techno Venture Management.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co LP (BPOC) is a private equity firm founded in 1996 by Dave Beecken, Bill Petty, and Ken O’Keefe. The firm is headquartered Chicago, Illinois.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association operates music bands and orchestras. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL.

Baxter BioScience Corp. provides biopharmaceutical and vaccines services. It offers a portfolio of therapeutic proteins derived from either human plasma or recombinant technology. The company is headquartered in Beltsville, MD.

Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, also known as ibio, is a state trade association representing the life sciences industry in Illinois. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization's mission is to promote, connect, and engage the life sciences community to drive discovery, transform lives through groundbreaking research, and grow the economy. The company's membership ranges from corporations to startup companies in the biopharma, medical device, and nutrition industries. The Illinois life sciences industry is recognized as a national leader, and ibio's members are committed to expanding the boundaries of science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative and needed therapeutics and products to transform patients' lives.

Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH specializes in patient-friendly diagnostics for early disease detection, personalized medicine, and lifetime health monitoring. Hummingbird Diagnostics is based in Heidelberg, DE and was founded by Jochen Kohlhaas and Karoly Nikolich. The German company uses liquid biopsies based on miRNA biomarkers to detect diseases such as lung cancer, melanoma, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart diseases, and IBD. Jochen Kohlhaas has been the CEO since incorporation.

Sentinext Therapeutics Sdn. Bhd. develops vaccines and therapeutics for tropical infectious diseases. Its pharmaceutical research and development focuses on EV71, polio, influenza and dengue diseases. The company was founded by Mary Jane Cardosa and Peter Samuel Wulff in 2009 and is headquartered in Penang, Malaysia.

PrIME Biologics Pte Ltd. develops disposable therapeutic plasma manufacturing process. Its process doubles product yields while increasing product safety and removing viruses, bacteria, endotoxins, and prions. The firm’s process reduces the time it takes to produce multiple plasma products from days to hours. The company is headquartered in Singapore.

Baxter Ventures (Baxter Ventures) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Baxter International, Inc. founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.

Functional Enviromics Technologies SA provides biotechnology solutions. It develops chemically defined cell culture media for life sciences research institutions and industries. The firm offers cell functional enviromics (CFE) sciences and derived technologies. Its CFE technology engineers cellular metabolism which enables increased cell culture performance and decreases development time for media formulation. The company was founded by Rui Oliveira, Inês Isidro, João Dias, Nuno Carinhas, Filipe Ataíde, and Ana Ferreira in 2013 and is headquartered in Caparica, Portugal.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences provides humanities and social science research services. The private company is based in Vienna, Austria.

Agent Capital LLC (Agent Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Geeta Vemuri. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

TRACT Therapeutics, Inc. develops revolutionary therapeutic cells. The company was founded by Gretchen S. Johnson and Joseph R. Leventhal and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cerevel Therapeutics LLC operates as a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drug candidates to treat disorders of the central nervous system. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., Cerevel Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops therapies. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded in 2018. N. Anthony Coles has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

schilling Wirtschaftsberatungs GmbH provides consulting and specialized services. It focuses on the areas of business consulting, asset management, financing, investment funds, and property management. The firm develops asset management strategies for the purpose of asset generation. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Part of "Schilling" Wirtschafts-beratungs GmbH, Schilling Asset Management GmbH provides investment advice. The company is based in Vienna, Austria. The CEO of the Austrian company is Josef Schroll.