Katrine Rese Shadidi

Birkeland Innovasjon AS (Birkeland) is the technology transfer subsidiary of Inven2 AS in Norway. Established in 2004 as the technology transfer office of the University of Oslo, Norway's largest research institution, Birkeland manages the University's rights to research results that are suitable for commercialization. The firm is located in Oslo and is named for former physics professor Kristian Birkeland, founder of Norsk Hydro (OS: NHY), an international group active in oil and gas, aluminium and the production of fertilizers for agriculture.

Cgene AS is a holding company that offers contract-based research within the field of in vivo molecular imaging. It is a biotechnology company that has available mice models designed to report real-time gene activity in a living animal, reflecting normal or pathological molecular processes in conditions such as inflammation, infection, oxidative stress, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, hypoxia, and retinoid effects. It develops and makes commercially available new reporter models for in vivo molecular imaging purposes. It also tailors transgenic models to meet specific customer needs. Its reporter models serve as preclinical tool for cost-efficient drug screening by pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Harald Carlsen and Rune Blomhoff on April 22, 1985 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.