Simon Chandler

Acambis Plc develops biopharmaceutical products and vaccines. It offers ACAM2000, a smallpox vaccine for emergency-use stockpiling; and ChimeriVax-JE, a single-dose Japanese encephalitis vaccine for endemic markets and travelers. Its products in pipeline include ChimeriVax-JE, ChimeriVax-West Nile, and ChimeriVax-Dengue. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

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.

Neurona Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the discovery and development of cell-based therapies to treat intractable neurological disease. The company was founded by Arnold R. Kriegstein, John Rubenstein, Cory R. Nicholas, and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

PA Consulting Group Ltd. engages in the provision of management, systems, technology consulting, and innovation services. The company was founded by Ernest Button on September 3, 2015 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of UCB SA, UCB Research, Inc. is a company that provides commercial physical research laboratory services. The company is based in Cambridge, MA.

BioCity Group Ltd (BioCity) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVF) is the venture capital arm of Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, itself a subsidiary of C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG. The firm was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany. It also has two US offices located in Fremont, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

STAT-Dx Life SL focuses on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of diagnostic solutions for fast and accurate diagnostic results of infectious diseases and critical care. It solution offers DiagCORE Cartridge, for sample and analyzation of cell material, nucleic acid purification, amplification and hybridization process. The company was founded by Jordi Cabrrera Fabra and Rafael Bru Gibert in 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Hookipa Biotech AG develops new generation prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. The firm’s Vaxwave technology is a novel immunotherapy platform using a replication-defective viral vector for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Lukas Flatz, Andreas Bergthaler, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Daniel Pinschewer in July 2011 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Eyevensys SAS develops non-viral gene therapy process for the treatment of ocular illnesses. The firm's process enables prolonged production of all therapeutic proteins through electrotransfer. Its product, the single-used device is designed for treating ocular illnesses. The company was founded by Francine Behar-Cohen on December 8, 2008 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cell Therapy Catapult Services Ltd. offers gene therapy services. The private company is based in London, UK.

Amal Therapeutics SA engages in the development of peptide-based therapeutic cancer vaccines. It offers KISMA, a novel peptide/protein-based immunization technology platform, which is self-adjuvanting and enables the assembly within one chimeric fusion protein of elements essential to generate potent immunity. The company was founded by Madiha Derouazi on September 3, 2012 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Acousia Therapeutics GmbH identifies small molecules for treatment of hearing loss. The firm develops drugs for local application, which will protect hearing function or restore hearing in patients who have lost their hearing ability due to various reasons. It also develops small molecule compounds that trigger regeneration of sensory hair cells and therefore allow casual treatment of sensorineural hearing loss in patients who already lost their hair cells years ago. The company was founded by Hubert Löwenheim and Karl-Heinz Wiesmüller in 2012 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

BBI Diagnostics Group 2 Plc provides diagnostic tests and materials. It offers a portfolio of products and services that are provided to the diagnostic, healthcare, research, defense, and food industries. The company was founded on October 22, 2013 and is headquartered in Bedford, the United Kingdom.

Lizard Bioconsulting Ltd. provides management consultancy services. The private company is based in Cambridge, UK. The British company was founded in 2013 by Nick Higgins.

Cell Therapy Catapult Ltd. engages in the development, delivery, and commercializing of cell and gene therapy. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Oxford Science Enterprises PLC (Oxford Science Enterprises) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV develops novel immunotherapies to overcome cancers and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Carlo Heirman, Kris Thielemans and Sonja van Meirvenne in January 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Niel, Belgium.

Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH develops, manufactures and wholesales drugs. It focuses on the discovery, development and clinical validation of noncoding RNA therapeutics targeting microRNAs as medicines for patients with various forms of heart failure. The company was founded by Sandor Batkai, Claudia Ulbrich, and Thomas Thum on July 21, 2016 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany.

Gammadelta Therapeutics Ltd. is developing the potential of gamma delta (?d) cells to create improved immunotherapy of cancer and other serious diseases. The company was founded by Raj Mehta in 2016 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Stridebio, Inc. focuses on creating and developing novel adeno-associated viral vector technologies. The company was founded by Aravind Asokan, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna and Patrick Ritschel and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Avvinity Therapeutics Ltd. develops novel immuno-therapeutics. The British company was founded in 2016 by Mike Westby, Jonathan David Moore. The CEO is Nick Staples.

metaLinear Ltd. operates as a biotechnology firm. It uses proteome engineering technology to identify, validate, and drug new microbial targets. The company was founded by Paul Ko Ferrigno in November 2016 and is headquartered in Cheshire, the United Kingdom.

Fast BioPharma Ltd. develops therapeutic products for treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in Watlington, the United Kingdom.

Aelin Therapeutics NV develops drugs for antibiotics and first-in-class therapeutics. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2017. The CEO is Els Beirnaert.

SpliceBio SL is a genetic medicines company based in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish company harnesses its proprietary protein splicing platform to develop the next generation of gene therapies. SpliceBio's platform offers the potential to address diseases that currently cannot be treated with gene therapies because the necessary gene is too large to be delivered by -associated virus (AAV) vectors. The company's lead program targets Stargardt disease, a genetic eye disease that causes vision loss in children and adults. SpliceBio's platform is based on technology developed in the Muir lab at Princeton University after more than 20 years of pioneering intein and protein engineering research. The company was founded by Dominguez Silvia Frutos, Miquel Vila-Perelló, and Miquel Vila-Perelló has been the CEO since incorporation.

UCB Ventures is the venture capital arm of UCB SA and was founded in 2016. UCB Ventures is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts and London, United Kingdom.

Adaptate Biotherapeutics Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded on August 21, 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Wugen, Inc. develops CAR-T therapy platform for cancer therapies. The company was founded by Matthew Cooper and John F. DiPersio and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Kinomica Ltd. develops anti-cancer drug therapies. The company is based in Macclesfield, UK. The British company was founded in 2016 by David Britton, Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas. The CEO is Jane Theaker.

Exevir Bio BV is engaged in biotechnology services. The company is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

Dark Blue Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company was founded in June 4, 2020 an is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

NanoSyrinx Ltd is a discovery stage biotechnology company that is based in the UK. The British company is focused on developing protein nanosyringes as a new way to deliver protein and peptide biologic drugs intracellularly. The company uses synthetic biology approaches to achieve this goal. The company was founded by Joseph Healey, Alexia Hapeshi, and Nicholas Waterfield, with Joseph Healey serving as the CEO since incorporation.

We Are Pioneer Group Ltd. (Pioneer Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Alethiomics Ltd. operates as a British biotechnology company. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. The company was founded in 2021 by Adam Joseph Mead, Bethan Psaila. The CEO is Mark Throsby.

AlveoGene Ltd. is a British dormant company that was founded in 2022. The company is based in Oxford, UK.