Juan Carlos Zapata

Merck Serono SA operates as a holding company in the pharmaceutical field. It engages in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of therapeutic products for the treatment of human diseases. The company was founded on May 21, 1987 and is headquartered in Coinsins, Switzerland.

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH engages in the development, manufacture, and packaging of medicines, as well as pharmaceutical products. It also focuses on the research into the causes of diseases and the search for its drug treatment. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Institut Pasteur is a private non-profit foundation which contributes to the prevention and treatment of disease, through research, education, and public health activities. The firm was founded in 1887, and is based in Paris.

OMEICOS Therapeutics GmbH develops small molecules using endogenous protective mechanism for the treatment and prevention of atrial fibrillation. It operates as a biopharmaceutical company developing molecule therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Wolf-Hagen Schunck, John R. Falck, Dominik Müller, Robert Fischer and Karen Uhlmann in 2013 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Amarna Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company developing SVac viral gene delivery vector platform. The firm has developed a proprietary SuperVero cell line and SVec gene delivery platform for the development of safe and efficient immunotherapies for major indications within the degenerative, inflammatory and autoimmune disease areas. The company was founded by Ben van Leent and Peter de Haan in 2008 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

KAHR Medical Ltd. develops novel fusion protein pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Its drug pipeline is built around the signal converter proteins a unique class of multi-functional therapeutic agents that convert signals sent from one cell to another. The firm?s therapeutic proteins integrate two functional units, enabling each one to elicit multiple cooperative functional endpoints. The company was founded by Mark L. Tykocinski in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

BioMed X GmbH is an independent research institute that conducts biomedical pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, and diagnostics. The private company is based in Heidelberg, Germany. The German company sponsors these projects with pharmaceutical partners such as Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, and Roche. Talented early-career scientists from all over the world are recruited to work on these projects. The company combines crowdsourcing with local incubation to provide creative solutions to big biomedical research challenges. Each research team has access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and is guided by experienced mentors from academia and industry. The company was founded in 2013 by Christian Tidona, who has been the CEO since 2013.

FutuRx Ltd (FutuRx ) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Ness Ziona.