Jack T. Johansen

Protein Forest, Inc., a privately held company founded in 2002 and is located in Lexington, MA, is a developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art sample fractionation technology, products, and data analysis software for mass spectrometry. The company develops, manufactures, and markets instruments, consumables, and bioinformatics software products for scientists in the life science, drug discovery, pharmaceutical, biotech, and diagnostic industries around the world.

Symphogen A/S provides antibody therapeutics for the treatment of cancers. It offers oncology products and creates selected antibody mixtures that address multiple oncology targets in a single drug product. The firm’s pipeline is fueled by its technology suite capable of identifying, selecting, manufacturing, and characterizing optimal antibody mixtures. The company was founded by Kirsten Aarup Drejer, Thomas Feldthus, Eigil Bjerl Nielsen, Anker Gunvald Lundemose, Kim Arthur Hueg, and John Soerensen Haurum in 2000 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

7TM A/S performs research and development within biotechnology. It engages in clinical development of drugs focusing on obesity and gastrointestinal diseases. The company was founded by Thue Walter Schwartz, Anders Fink Vadsholt, Mette Kirstine Agger, Christian Ellebæk Elling, and Peter Moldt on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Boston Probes, Inc. developed peptide nucleic acid probe-based systems for human cytogenetics. The company was founded by James M. Coull and Brian D. Gildea and was headquartered in Waltham, MA.

GLYCODesign, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. The company engages in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for life-threatening diseases such as cancer, infectious diseases, inflammation, and cardiovascular diseases. GLYCODesign focuses on inhibiting the enzymes that produce the abnormal carbohydrates. The company was founded by Jeremy Carver in 1993 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

EMD Millipore Corp. engages in the provision of laboratory materials, technologies, and services to the life science industry. The company was founded by Jack Bush in 1954 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Exiqon A/S engages in the development of solutions for ribonucleic acid research and analysis through its Locked Nucleic Acid proprietary technology. Its products and services are used by researchers in academia, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies around the world to make discoveries about the correlation between gene activity and the development of disease. The company was founded by Mikael Ørum, Henrik Ørum and Troels Koch on November 1, 1995 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

AdvanDx, Inc. provides advanced molecular diagnostic products for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening, bacterial infections. Its products include QuickFISH BC Tests, PNA FISH Tests, ASR PNA Probes, starter system, accessories and package inserts. The firm offers diagnostic solutions that include antimicrobial stewardship, blood culture contamination, staphylococcal bacteremia, enterococcal bacteremia, gram-negative bacteremia and candidemia. The company was founded by Henrik Stender and Thais T. Johansen in 2002 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.