Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff

Part of Santo Holding (Deutschland) GmbH, Aicuris Anti-Infective Cures AG aims to discover, develop, and deliver innovative, anti-viral drugs to immunocompromised patients aiming to prevent severe condition and life-threatening diseases. The private company is based in Wuppertal, Germany. Aicuris has developed a commercial drug as well as pipeline of clinical-stage and pre-clinical anti-viral candidates. Its lead product Prevymis® (letermovir), a first-in-class non-nucleoside cytomegalovirus (CMV) inhibitor, was licensed to MSD and is commercialized for the prevention of human CMV infections in immunocompromised patients who underwent an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or kidney transplantation. Aicuris wholly owned product candidate, Pritelivir, targeting resistant herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in immunocompromised patients, is in phase 3 clinical development. The German company was founded in 2006 by Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff. Larry G. Edwards has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

E. Merck KG operates as a holding company with interest in pharmaceutical preparations. It acts as a general partner that holds the majority of shares of the public company Merck KGaA. Merck KG is the parent company of all Merck companies yet it does not have any operating businesses itself. It makes the entrepreneurial policy decisions for the Merck Group. The company is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.