Michael B. Cross

Viron Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops novel therapeutics for inflammatory disorders. Its products include VT-111a, a recombinant protein that functions to reduce monocyte infiltration to sites of viral infection, as well as inhibits cardiovascular damage due to coronary stent placement. The firm also develops VT-310, a glycoprotein for the treatment of cancer, VT-384 that inhibit interferon gamma production, VT-346, a glycoprotein that protects against human TNF-mediated inflammatory signals and VT-214, a chemokine binding protein. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in London, Canada.

Agrisoma Biosciences, Inc. provides crop technology for biofuel and renewable energy solutions. Its crop improvement technologies include proprietary breeding, proprietary tissue culture and haploidy, molecular markers and genetic mapping and advanced crop improvement technologies. The company was founded by Steven Fabijanski and Tom Mamic in 2001 and is headquartered in Gatineau, Canada.

Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TTI), is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative therapies for the treatment of immune-mediated disorders. The Company's therapeutic approaches are aimed at restoring balance to the immune system in conditions associated with aberrant or harmful immune responses, such as autoimmune disease, inflammatory disorders, and cancer. TTI's objective is to create a broad and innovative pipeline of proprietary biologic product opportunities, as part of its overall strategy of building and solidifying its reputation as a premier R & D company. The company's business model is to identify therapeutic candidates that have shown promise in animal models and to rapidly advance these into clinical testing. TTI is concentrating its efforts on preclinical and early clinical drug development, with the primary objective of demonstrating safety and proof-of-principle in man. The company has chosen to establish development partnerships for some of its projects at a preclinical stage, and anticipates advancing several others into clinical development on its own. TTI has five scientific programs at various stages of preclinical testing. Two of its programs focus on the immunoregulatory protein CD200 and its receptor, a third targets the activating Fc receptor Fc RIIa (CD32a) and the final two involve the use of a growth factor in the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis and the treatment of interstitial cystitis.

Lumira Capital Investment Management is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Nordion (Canada),Inc. founded in 1989 by Tony Pullen. The firm is headquartered in Toronto.

AdipoGenix, Inc. develops molecular pharmaceutical products. It offers small molecule pharmaceuticals to treat obesity and its co-morbidities. The firm’s technology includes AdipoBASE, AdipoSCREEN, AdipoPATH and AdipoTARGET. The company was founded by Gerri Waloga, Barbara E. Corkey, Stephen R. Farmer, James A. Hamilton, James L. Kirkland, H. Jeff Leighton and Paul F. Pilch in 1997 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Nordion (Canada), Inc. provides drug discovery and development research services. It specializes in health science, gamma irradiation, radiopharmaceutical, gamma sterilization, medical isotopes, and production irradiators. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.