Donna Hackett

BioReliance Corp. provides testing and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. It provides outsourced services to customers from most healthcare disciplines, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. The firm also provides safety testing services focused on the rapidly growing biologics sector of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company enables emerging and clinical stage companies who may lack the staff, expertise and financial resources to conduct many aspects of product development in-house. BioReliance was founded by Charles E. Bender in 1947 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

MedImmune Ltd. engages in research, development and exploitation of products in the field of molecular engineering. The company was founded on December 11, 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Inveresk Research Group, Inc. provides drug development services to companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company offers pre-clinical safety & pharmacology evaluation, laboratory sciences, and clinical development services. Inveresk Research Group was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cary, NC.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Plc provides finance and treasury management services. The company is headquartered in London, UK.

Neusentis is a biopharmaceutical company, which is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel orally-administered small molecule drugs that modulate ion channel targets. The company has developed an integrated technology platform that allows for the efficient discovery of drug leads. The firm is conducting research and development activities in a number of disease areas, including epilepsy, pain and inflammation. Icagen has two clinical stage programs in epilepsy and pain. The company was formerly known as Icagen, Inc. It was founded by Andre L. Lamotte and P. Kay Wagoner on November 23, 1992 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

The Medical Research Council provides human healthcare and social services. It offers funding for biomedical spectrum, fundamental lab-based science, clinical trials and all major disease areas. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Swindon, the United Kingdom.

Domantis Ltd. develops domain antibody therapeutics for treating highly unmet diseases. It enables DABS to serve as building blocks for therapeutics simultaneously directed at more than one disease target. The company was founded in December 2000 and is headquartered Middlesex, the United Kingdom.

Part of Istesso Ltd., Modern Biosciences Ltd. is a British pharmaceutical company that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in London, UK. The company was founded by Samuel Cameron Williams, Alexander James Stevenson. Samuel Cameron Williams has been the CEO since incorporation.

Advantek, Inc. provides precision component delivery systems. It offers carrier type, surftape, cover tape, packaging reels, and barrier bags. The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Part of Signature BioScience, Inc., Cambridge Discovery Chemistry provides chemistry research services. Cambridge Discovery Chemistry was acquired by Signature BioScience, Inc. from Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on July 16, 2001.

Pharminox Ltd develops treatments for cancer therapy. The private company is based in Abingdon, UK. The British company was founded by Neil L. Brown.

GE Healthcare Ltd. provides transformational medical technologies and services which include icenter, AssetPlus, preventive maintenance, continuity, digital solutions and Unisys multi brand probe repair services. The firm offers magnetic resonance imaging, hemodynamic recording, EP recording, metabolic health and computed tomography. The company was founded on February 16, 1971 and is headquartered in Little Chalfont, the United Kingdom.

Karus Therapeutics Ltd. provides therapies for treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. It offers HDAC6 and PI3K inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. The firm’s products in pipeline include KA-2237, KAR4000 Series and KAR3000 Series for the treatment of chronic inflammation, haematological malignancies, and solid tumours. The company was founded in July 2005 by Arasu Ganesan, Graham Keith Packham and Paul Townsend and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Apple Tree venture Managemnet LLC (Apple Tree Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Seth Harrison in 1999. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional offices in London, San Francisco and Cambridge.

BioSouth, Inc. provides educational workshops and seminars to the bioscience industry. The private company is based in Canton, GA.

Intermediate Capital Group Plc (Private Equity) (ICG) is a private equity division of Intermediate Capital Group Plc founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

SGS Vitrology Ltd. develops systems for biopharmaceutical testing. The firm also provides bio-informatics, bio-processing bio-manufacturing services, gene therapy, lab services, supplies and virology services. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.

Kuur Therapeutics provides clinical cellular therapeutics services. It develops, manufactures and markets personalized cellular immunotherapeutics for infectious disease and cancer. Cell Medica has developed proprietary production technology enabling GMP compliant manufacture of antigen-specific T cells. The company was founded by Gregg Sando in 2006 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

C4X Discovery Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of medical drugs. It uses its NMR-based technology to solve the dynamic 3D structures of a broad range of biomolecules, including peptides, cofactors, oligonucleotides and carbohydrates. The company was founded by Andrew Almond and Charles Douglas Blundell in January 2008 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

Iksuda Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company which specializes in the development of next generation biotherapeutics. It creates new generation biological therapeutics through advanced glycosylation and conjugation technologies. The company has core expertise in protein/peptide fictionalization and glycosylation technologies, imparting improved pharmacokinetic properties to a broader range of biological therapeutics. It was founded by David John Simpson and Andrew Watts on November 21, 2007 and is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, the United Kingdom.

Akamis Bio Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company which develops novel therapeutics that addresses cancer and other clinically unmet diseases. Its products include Enadenotucirev, Espindolol and AbEnAd. The firm also develops treatments based upon the research phase vaccine platform PolySTAR, which combines recombinant viral vectors with polymers to shield them from the immune system, and the research phase adjuvant and immunotherapeutic platform PolyMAP, which combines polymers with synthetic adjuvants to significantly enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. The company was founded by Andrew Justin Stewart Coats and Stefan D. Anker on November 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Part of HVD Biotech AG, HVD Vertriebs GmbH provides laboratory equipment maintenance and repair services. The company is based in Vienna, Austria.

Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst offers access to equipment and facilities that would otherwise be beyond the reach of small or medium-sized companies. The company is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Ieso Digital Health Ltd. provides Internet enabled mental health services to health providers, private individuals and businesses. The firm engages in delivering cognitive behavioral therapy. It offers anxiety, bereavement, child and family, depression, drug and alcohol misuse, eating disorder, managing anger, managing pain, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic, phobia, post traumatic stress, relationship, sexual difficulty, sports psychology, stress management, and terminal illness therapy services. The company was founded by Barnaby Perks, Sue Wright and Nadine Field in 2000 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Pulmocide Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical services. It develops inhaled medicines for viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract. The company was founded by William Garth Rapeport, John Murray, Kazuhiro Ito, and Peter Strong on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Genomics Plc develops research and experimental development on biotechnology. It develops and applies cutting edge analysis and algorithms to database of genomic and phenotypic data to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease. The company was founded by Peter Donnely, Gil McVean, Chris Spencer and Gerton Lunter on January 10, 2004 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Microbiotica Ltd. performs research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by Michael Anthony Romanos, Trevor David Lawley and Gordon Dougan in December 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Istesso Ltd. Operates as a drug discovery and development company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Bridge Valley Ventures LLP is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2017. Bridge Valley Ventures LLP is headquartered in Cambridge.