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AZTherapies, Inc. engages in the development of therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and ischemic stroke treatments. Its product pipelines include ALZT-OP1, ALZT-OP2, AZHALER-D, and ALZT-QoL. The company was founded by David R. Elmaleh in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

France Biotech Association is an independent association founded in 1997 that brings together healthtech entrepreneurs and their expert partners. The non-profit company is based in Paris, France. The association actively contributes to meeting the many challenges of the healthtech industry, such as companies' financing, innovation-related taxes, regulatory and market access related issues. It offers concrete competition and solutions through its commissions and working groups to help startups and SMEs become international leaders capable of rapidly developing and bringing innovative solutions to patients. The French company was founded by Philippe Pouletty, Pascal Brandys, Denis J. Lucquin.

Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc. develops novel, adjuvanted vaccines and immunotherapeutics to treat infectious disease and cancer. The company was founded by Martin D. Cleary, Jeff Fairman and Steven W. Dow in February 2003 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Juventas Therapeutics, Inc. provides regenerative therapies for cardiovascular disease. It is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of factor-based regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases. The company's product has been shown to protect and repair tissue following ischemic injury by recruiting the body's own stem cells to the damaged tissue. The company was founded by Rahul A. Aras and Marc S. Penn in 2007 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Tc Land Expression SA operates as a molecular diagnostic company. It focuses on the development and commercialisation of tests aimed at monitoring patients with immunological conditions. The firm specializes in the area of organ transplantation and immune mediated disorders. Its development programs encompass RA-INF-Dx, IMD Dx2, IMD Dx3, and L-TolX. The company was founded by Marina Guillet and Alain Huriez in November 2002 and is headquartered in Huningue, France.

PX Therapeutics SA manufactures and develops recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies. Its services include protein engineering, optimization of drug candidates, humanization of antibodies, and production and release of GMP batches for clinical studies. The firm specializes in the field of in-vivo and in-vitro diagnostics, industrial enzymes, and ancillary products. The company was founded by Tristan Rousselle and Nicolas Mouz in November 2000 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

The San Francisco Aids Foundation provides education, advocacy, and direct services for HIV prevention and care. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA.

PROMETHERA Biosciences SA discovers, develops and commercializes cell therapy products to treat liver diseases. It operates as a pharmaceutical company that develops treatment based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. The firm’s technology platform is based on a newly discovered cell type, isolated from normal human adult liver tissue: Heterologous Human Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (HHALPC). The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal and Eric Halioua on February 12, 2009 and is headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.

European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises develops biological products. The private company is based in Brussels, Belgium.

The Innovative Medicines Initiative is a public-private partnership that aims to accelerate the development of better and safer medicines for patients. The private company is based in Brussels, Belgium and has subsidiaries in Sweden. The Programme Office, led by the Executive Director, manages the day-to-day operations of the initiative. The initiative recognizes the importance of communication and provides accessible tools generated by their projects to help scientists in their research efforts. The Belgian company was founded by J. Kenneth Charles Knowles.

Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Corvidia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focusing on cardiovascular therapies. It develops treatments for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, inflammation in chronic kidney diseases, and high triglyceride-induced acute pancreatitis. The company was founded by Michael H. Davidson, Rahul Kakkar, Matt Devalaraja, and Ram Aiyar in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

PharmaLex GmbH engages in the provision of specialized services in the fields of development consulting, regulatory affairs, epidemiology and risk management, compliance, as well as quality management, particularly for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. These include providing technical and development support for product development, in-house management of clinical and analytical programs, establishment of pharmacology and regulatory services to ensure approval of pharmaceutical products in certain markets, development of decision-making tools for clinical trial recruitment, and study monitoring and program management. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Friedrichsdorf, Germany.

Claris Biotherapeutics, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of drugs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Central Health Center provides healthcare services. The private company is based in Oakland.

Alameda County Health Care Services Agency provides health care services. The private company is based in San Leandro.

Cytoimmune Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2017 and based in Toa, Japan. The American company is focused on developing a pipeline of NK cell therapies for various types of cancer, including lung cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, solid tumors, and multiple myeloma. The private company's lead product, Cyto-102, is a track-NK cell therapy that aims to enter clinical trials in combination with atezolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer in 2022. Cytoimmune Therapeutics also offers cell therapy development and clinical manufacturing services to biotechnology companies and academia. The company's state-of-the-art clinical cell manufacturing facility is custom-built to support the development and commercialization of cutting-edge T cell or NK cell therapies. The company was founded in 2017 by Michael A. Caligiuri, William Michael Rosellini, and Jianhua Yu, Ph.D. José Eduardo Vidal has been the CEO of the company since 2021.