Michael Watson

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics provides healthcare services. It enables the development and delivery of much-needed diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases, including tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, sleeping sickness, hepatitis C, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer, febrile illnesses and infectious diseases with outbreak potential, such as Ebola. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Meissa Vaccines, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical development company. It focuses on the in-licensing and advancement of vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus. The company was founded by Marty Moore and Roderick Tang in 2014 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

VaxEquity Ltd. is a UK biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Professor Robin Shattock, the head of immunology of infection at Imperial College and Morningside. The company is based in Little Chesterford, UK. The British company is developing transformative RNA therapeutics and vaccines using its next-generation self-amplifying RNA platform called SARNA. The platform provides extended duration of protein expression, enabling lower doses to be used for vaccines and higher protein levels to be achieved for therapeutics. VaxEquity is pioneering a next-generation approach by modifying its SARNA to modulate the innate immune response and thereby overcoming current limitations. The flexibility of the company's platform ensures that its broad pipeline of assets can be designed, developed, and manufactured rapidly and at scale.

Osivax SAS engages in the development of infectious diseases vaccines and immunotherapies based on oligoDOM? proprietary technology. It operates in the influenza vaccine "INFLUENZA - OVX836" business segment. The company was founded by Alexandre Le Vert, Florence Nicolas and Fergal Hill on May 15, 2017 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.