Mike Rothe

IBA GmbH provides product and service solutions for life science research. Its product and service portfolio includes cell selection and expansion, cloning, transfection, recombinant protein production and assays to nucleic acid custom services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Göttingen, Germany.

Tularik, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of a broad range of novel and superior orally available medicines that act through the regulation of gene expression. Tularik's scientific platform is focused on three therapeutic areas: cancer, inflammation and metabolic disease. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Igenica Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. It develops antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancer. The firm offers recombinant monoclonal antibodies for oncology and cancer treatment. The company was founded by Robert Schreiber and Guoqing Chen in 2008 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

DeveloGen AG is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of metabolic and endocrine disorders with a particular focus on diabetes. DeveloGen develops highly innovative approaches for the treatment of diabetes and obesity targeting key pathophysiological mechanisms such as insulin resistance and loss of insulin-producing beta cells. DeveloGen's product pipeline includes two programs at advanced stages of lead optimization, a small molecule inhibitor program based on a novel and proprietary target to address insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). A growth factor targeting beta cell regeneration (type 1 and type 2 diabetes). DeveloGen is based in Goettingen, Germany.

U3 Pharma AG researches and develops novel targeted therapeutics aimed at treating human disease. It develops products for hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer and commercializes human monoclonal antibody therapies directed against validated proprietary drug targets selected from its portfolio. In addition, it has created a second generation functional genomics platform, TASC, which mimics the progression of a tumor cell as it progresses towards its fully malignant cancerous state. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.