Philippe Lievre

Novartis International AG manages the Novartis Group. It provides administrative, financial, legal, and technical services. It also offers scientific consultation to the Group. The company was founded on December 13, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Fountain Healthcare Partners Ltd. (Fountain) is venture capital firm, founded in 2008 by Manus Rogan and Aidan King. The firm is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

HealthCap AB (HealthCap) is a venture capital subsidiary of Odlander, Fredrikson & Co. AB founded in 1995 by Björn Ingemar Odlander and Peder Fredrikson. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Switzerland.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

SelectX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of aminoglycoside therapeutics for unmet medical needs. Its advanced program, development candidate SXP2523, is a next generation aminoglycoside antibiotic for drug resistant gram-negative hospital-acquired infections (HAIs); SXP2523 possesses broad spectrum coverage with potency against Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, E. coli, and Staphylococcus. The company was founded by Michael G. Chaparian and Charles R. Cantor in 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Altimmune UK Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against mutating viruses and cancer. It provides T-cell vaccines to protect patients against infectious diseases (most notably mutating viruses) and to treat cancers; and Flunisyn, a DepoVaccine to protect against influenza. The company was founded by Bertrand Georges in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Binx Health, Inc. develops and provides in vitro point-of-care (POC) testing on diseases such as sexually transmitted infections, neonatal sepsis and hospital acquired infections. Its technology products include in diagnostic and immunoassay platform, rapid POC, and nucleic acid detection technology. The company was founded by John Clarkson in 2005 and is headquartered in Trowbridge, the United Kingdom.

FerroKin BioSciences, Inc. offers clinical stage biotechnology services for iron chelator in the treatment of iron-overload in patients with transfusion-dependent hereditary and acquired refractory anemia. The company was founded by Hugh Young Rienhoff, Jr. in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

MyoPowers Medical Technologies France SA operates as a medical device company. It specializes in muscle technologies to restore or improve muscle function. The firm also develops implantable medical devices for the treatment of severe stress urinary incontinence. The company was founded by Piergiorgio Tozzi and Daniel Hyoz in June 2004 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a immunology drug development company. It focuses on novel therapeutics and specializes in the prevention and treatment of solid organ transplantation, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s diseases. The firm developed OPN-305, an antibody to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which is now at the clinical testing phase. The company was founded by Luke O'Neill, Kingston Mills and Dermot Kelleher in 2004 and is headquartered Dublin, Ireland.

The Irish Venture Capital Association is a representative organization for venture capital and private equity firms in Ireland. The Irish company invests in private, unlisted companies with high growth potential and work with the investee company management teams to support growth plans and make improvements to the business with the aim of increasing its value. The IVCA offers a range of services to its members and benefits of membership. The company's full members are venture capital and private equity firms that provide equity funding to growing unquoted companies. Associate members of the IVCA include firms that provide advisory services including corporate finance houses, commercial and intellectual property law firms, accountants and other advisers experienced in the venture capital field.

Mainstay Medical Ltd. operates as a medical device company which develops neuro-stimulation therapies for people with debilitating chronic low back pain. It develops ReActiv8, an active implantable medical device designed to treat people with chronic low back pain. The company was founded by Danny Sachs in 2008 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Opsona Research Ltd. is a private company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The firm functions as an investment holding company.

Kanyos Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of immune tolerance technology solutions. It develops antigen-specific for treatment of type-1 diabetes and celiac disease. The company was founded by Jeffrey Hubbell, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz, and David A. Lowin in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Neuromod Devices Ltd. operates as a medical device company which engages in the research and development of neuromodulation technologies for chronic tinnitus. The firm develops proprietary neuromodulation technologies designed to address pathologies, which are believed to give rise to illusory perceptions, such as tinnitus. These technologies utilize bi-modal neuromodulation and aim to promote positive therapeutic change within the human nervous system. The company was founded by Ross O?Neill in 2010 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Oculis SA focuses on ophthalmic drugs and novel drug delivery to the eye. The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME (diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. The company was founded by Einar Stefansson and Thorsteinn Loftsson in 2003is headquartered in Pully, Switzerland.

Inflazome Ltd. engages in developing therapeutic medicines for inflammatory diseases. It manufactures and supplies medicines for muckle wells, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypertension, gout, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson, Alzheimer, and multiple sclerosis. The company was founded by Matthew A. Cooper and Luke O'Neill in 2016 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Imcheck Therapeutics SAS operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops immunotherapeutic anti-cancer strategies for research. The company was founded by Olive Daniel in 2015 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

Vivet Therapeutics SAS develops novel gene therapy treatments for inherited metabolic diseases. The firm offers its services under the categorizers of Biopharma, Biotechnology and Health Care. The company was founded by Jean-Philippe Combal, Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza and Jens Kurth on July 26, 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Quell Therapeutics Ltd. is a London-based biotechnology company, which develops immune cell therapies to target transplant rejection, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It develops engineered T regulatory cell therapies for a variety of non-cancer targets. The company was founded on March 19, 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Amyl Therapeutics SRL is a Belgian biotech company that uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-? (A?), tau, and ?-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Amyl Therapeutics is based in Liege, BE and was founded in November 2020 by Drs. The company's therapies based on the clarity technology platform are designed to prevent the further accumulation of aggregates and clear existing aggregates from the peripheral organs and the brain, while also blocking further cell-to-cell spread of misfolded proteins. Florent Gros and Pierre Vandepapelière. Pierre Vandepapelière has been the CEO since incorporation.