Carolina Salcedo Roca

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Phase4 Ventures ltd (Phase4 Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Nomura International Plc founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in London, UK.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Lundbeckfond Invest A/S (Lundbeckfond Invest) is the investment management subsidiary of the Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark. Established in 1999, the firm is based in Copenhagen and manages the Lundbeck Foundation's investments, aiming for long-term, stable returns with moderate risk, such that the Foundation's net capital is not jeopardized and the Foundation is able to meet its commitments in terms of awarding grants and of laying a capital base for its subsidiaries.

Lundbeck Foundation maintains and expands the activities of the Lundbeck Group. It provides funding for scientific research. Its support of scientific activities takes place mainly through the financing of concrete scientific projects in the areas of biomedicine and natural sciences. The firm grants a number of stipends and fellowships, and also supports education and procurement activities in biomedical and natural sciences. The company was founded by Grete Lundbeck on March 4, 1954 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

AM-Pharma Holding BV operates as a financial holding company with interests in the bio-medical sector. The company was founded by Rudd Brands and is headquartered in Bunnik, Netherlands.

DySIS Medical Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets medical imaging systems. Its imaging systems assist clinicians with non-invasive, in-vivo detection of cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions and provides tools to aid medical practitioners in the detection, grading, and documentation of cervical neoplasia. The company was founded by Costas Balas in 2002 and is headquartered in Livingston, the United Kingdom.

Ysios Capital Partners SGEIC SA (Ysios Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Joël Jean Pierre Jean-Mairet, Julia Salaverría Monfort and Josep Lluís Sanfeliu Benet. The firm is headquartered in San Sabastian, Spain with additional office in Barcelona.

Caixa Capital Risc SGEIC SA (Caixa Capital Risc) is a venture capital armof Criteria Caixa SA founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in Madrid.

AM-Pharma BV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of proprietary recombinant human Alkaline Phosphatase. The firm’s products include Acute Kidney Injury, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Hypophosphatasia. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bunnik, the Netherlands.

Lundbeckfonden Ventures (Lundbeckfonden Ventures) is a venture capital firm wholly-owned by the Lundbeck Foundation. The firm was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sagetis Biotech SL designs and develops drug-delivery technologies. Its polymeric-based platforms are designed to address areas such as" delivery through the blood-brain barrier, genetic material transfection, and tissue regeneration. The company was founded by David Horna, Eduard Diviu Terradas and Salvador Borros Gomez on April 14, 2010, and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

STAT-Dx Life SL focuses on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of diagnostic solutions for fast and accurate diagnostic results of infectious diseases and critical care. It solution offers DiagCORE Cartridge, for sample and analyzation of cell material, nucleic acid purification, amplification and hybridization process. The company was founded by Jordi Cabrrera Fabra and Rafael Bru Gibert in 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Inbiomotion SL designs and develops diagnostic assays. It focus on genetic biomarkers, which predict the bone-specific metastases in cancer patients. The firm develops biomarker in breast cancer primary tumors for predicting the bone relapse. The company was founded by in 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Minoryx Therapeutics SL engages in the development of drugs for the orphan genetic diseases of the central nervous system. The company was founded by Marc Martinell, Joan Aymami, Nigel Ten Fleming and Xavier Barril in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Columbus Venture Partners SGEIC SA (Columbus VP) is an independent Spanish venture capital firm which was founded in 2015 by Javier García Cogorro and Damià Tormo Carulla. The firm headquartered in Madri, Spain.

Aelix Therapeutics SL researches and develops therapies for HIV. It develops therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapies to treat HIV infection. The firm is a spin-off of HIVACAT, the Catalan project for the development of effective vaccines against HIV. The company was founded by Christian Brander, Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell and Jordi Naval is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

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.

Part of CSL Ltd., Sanifit, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in San Diego, CA.

VarmX BV is a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) founded in 2016 by Professor Pieter Reitsma, a world-leading expert in hemostasis and thrombosis. VarmX is based in Leiden, NL. The Dutch company's lead compound, VMX-C001, is a modified recombinant blood factor X developed for the treatment of severe spontaneous bleeding and for the prevention of bleeding during urgent surgery in patients taking oral factor Xa inhibitors (FXa DOACs) as anticoagulation therapy. The company is supported by a strong syndicate of investors. Jan K. Öhrström has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

GlyCardial Diagnostics SL has developed a biomarker called iSCOR that can detect cardiac ischemia through a blood test. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain. Early detection of ischemia can prevent myocardial damage. The Spanish company was founded in 2017 by Rafols Judit Cubedo, Lina Badimon Maestro, Capmany Teresa Padro, and Gemma Vilahur. Rafols Judit Cubedo has been the CEO since 2017.

SpliceBio SL is a genetic medicines company based in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish company harnesses its proprietary protein splicing platform to develop the next generation of gene therapies. SpliceBio's platform offers the potential to address diseases that currently cannot be treated with gene therapies because the necessary gene is too large to be delivered by -associated virus (AAV) vectors. The company's lead program targets Stargardt disease, a genetic eye disease that causes vision loss in children and adults. SpliceBio's platform is based on technology developed in the Muir lab at Princeton University after more than 20 years of pioneering intein and protein engineering research. The company was founded by Dominguez Silvia Frutos, Miquel Vila-Perelló, and Miquel Vila-Perelló has been the CEO since incorporation.

Ona Therapeutics SL is a biotech company based in Barcelona, Spain that specializes in discovering and developing therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. The Spanish company's focus is on developing novel therapies against advanced cancer. The company was founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar Benitah and Valerie Liesbeth Brigitte Vanhooren, with Valerie Liesbeth Brigitte Vanhooren serving as CEO since incorporation.

DeepUll Diagnostics SL provides technical engineering and consulting services. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish company was founded in 2019 by Jordi Carrera Fabra and Rafel Bru. Jordi Carrera Fabra has been the CEO since 2019.