Alan Keith Boyd

Celentyx Ltd. provides research and development on human immune disease. The firm's services include rapid analysis screening of drug action on physiological and pathological human immune tissues and cells. It provides services by disease, cell type, assay through its ImmuKnowlogy platform technology. The company was founded by Nicholas Mark Barnes and John Gordon in 2004 and is headquartered in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

Spark Therapeutics Ireland Ltd. develops new gene medicines to treat autosomal dominant genetic diseases. Its product RhoNova, is designed for the treatment of patients with rhodopsin linked autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa, a debilitating, progressive form of inherited blindness resulting from a diverse array of mutations in the RHO gene. The company was founded by Jane G. Farrar, Paul Kenna, and Gearóid Tuohy and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Transine Therapeutics Ltd. is an RNA platform company based in Cambridge, UK. The British company is developing a novel class of therapeutic RNAs called SINEUPs, which can upregulate protein expression with a superior level of control and specificity across an unprecedented range of diseases and applications. The company's proprietary technology allows them to address diseases that have been beyond the reach of small molecules, conventional biologics, or gene therapies. The SINEUP platform boosts the expression of almost any chosen target protein by binding precisely to the mRNA that encodes it and enhancing its translation. This technology massively extends the druggable proteome and represents an entirely new mechanism of action, ideally suited to address currently hard-to-treat diseases. The company was founded in 2018 by Stefano Gustincich and Piero Carninci. Jan Thirkettle has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Ark Therapeutics Group Plc is a gene-based medicine company, which is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of products in areas of specialist medicine, with particular focus on vascular disease and cancer. The company was founded by Peter Stephen Keen, John W. Martin, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Stephen Barker and Kenneth Powell in July 1997 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

AstraZeneca Canada, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical drug preparations. Its therapeutic areas include cardiovascular and metabolic disease, oncology, and respiratory, inflammation and autoimmunity. The firm also active in the infection, neuroscience and gastrointestinal disease areas. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Linear Diagnostics Ltd. operates as a diagnostics company based on a novel technology that allows wide range of molecular diagnostics tests to be carried out using a simple optical system. It specializes in molecular diagnostics, novel technology and optical detection. The company was founded by Matt Hicks in 2011 and is headquartered in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.