Christoph Antz

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.

Elara Pharmaceuticals GmbH focuses on the development of novel treatments for malignant diseases. It has developed three distinct and proprietary dual mechanism chemotypes that potently inhibit the HIF signaling pathway and induce apoptosis. The firm has identified compounds with excellent in vitro activity against a diverse set of tumor cell lines and superior pharmacokinetic and toxicity profiles in vivo. The company was founded by Frank Gannon, Joe D. Lewis and George Reid on July 27, 2006 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

EMBL Ventures GmbH (EMBL Ventures) is a venture investment arm of EMBL which was founded in 2001 by Drs. Stefan Herr, Christoph Antz and Jan Adams to provide start-up companies exploiting EMBL research and intellectual property with equity and expertise to build up and expand their business. Headquartered in Heidelberg, EMBL Ventures manages funds on behalf of institutional and private investors, forming a triad with EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and EMBLEM (EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH) to provide exclusive access to unique technology commercialization opportunities from the EMBL. In addition, their investment activities complement and exploit synergies with EMBL and EMBLEM, providing financial and strategic investors with access to an attractive private equity market and an international scientific and research community, respectively.

Luxendo GmbH manufactures and sells Single Plane Illumination Microscopes. The firm offers MuVi-SPIM technology which provides four simultaneous orthogonal views on large living specimens without the need for sample rotation. The company was founded by Lars Hufnageland is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Affectis Pharmaceuticals AG discovers and develops drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases. Its products in pipeline include AFC-5128, P2X7 Compounds, AFC-5278 and AFC-08. The company was founded in January 2004 by Florian Holsboer, Wolfgang Wurst and Herbert Stadler and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

vasopharm GmbH operates as a pharmaceutical company. It discovers and develops novel therapeutics for the treatment of cerebro and cardiovascular diseases and their consequences. The firm focuses on therapeutics influencing the bioavailability of nitric oxide. The company was founded by Harald Schmidt and Ulrich Walter in July 1998 and is headquartered in Wuerzburg, Germany.