Roland Schomer

Founded in 1996, Novartis Pharma NV is a Belgian pharmaceutical company that develops medicines. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium and is a subsidiary of Novartis AG.

Alliqua, Inc. is a biomedical products company focused on the development and manufacturing of proprietary technologies in the fields of drug delivery, advanced wound care and liver health preservation. It intends to develop active ingredient and transdermal drug delivery products, primarily utilizing the proprietary hydrogel technology platform manufactured by its subsidiary AquaMed Technologies, Inc. The firm develops HepaMate, an extracorporeal cell-based bioartificial liver system designed to combine blood detoxification with liver cell therapy to provide whole liver function in patients with the most severe forms of liver failure. Its HepaMate is comprised of a blood plasma separation cartridge, a hollow-fiber bioreactor filled with proprietary porcine liver cells, a charcoal column, an oxygenator, circuit tubing and a plasma reservoir. The company was founded on October 21, 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY. It changed its name from HepaLife Technologies, Inc. in January 2011.

Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (France) is a private company based in Le Pin, France. and has subsidiaries in France. Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures insulation materials. The French company was founded by Annick Schwebig.

Actelion Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd. discovers, develops, and markets drugs. Its products are Tracleer for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and Zavesca, which is used to treat Type 1 Gaucher disease. The company is headquartered in London, UK.