Christoph A. Kasper

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.

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.

Rinri Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company developing a novel cell-based therapy to restore hearing. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG specializes in chemical genomics pharmaceutical products. Through its fragment based chemical genomics platform, it provides novel small molecules for drug discovery and chemical genomics approaches. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Part of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Discovery Technologies Ltd is a Swiss company that provides high output screening capabilities, customized assay development/optimization, and chemical libraries. The company is based in Basel, Switzerland. The company was founded by Helmut H. Kessmann. Discovery Technologies was acquired by Discovery Partners International, Inc. on December 31, 2000 for $7.20 million.

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.