Mark Ratcliffe

Kyowa Kirin International Plc is a specialty pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of prescription medicines for the treatment of unmet therapeutic needs in major markets. It offers Sancuso, a prescription medicine used to prevent nausea and vomiting in people receiving some types of chemotherapy treatment and Abstral, a medicine used in the management of breakthrough pain in adult patients using opioid therapy for chronic cancer pain. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Galashiels, the United Kingdom.

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 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.

JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH provides innovative peptide based products and services for vaccine development, immune monitoring and peptide biomarker discovery. The firm’s products include custom peptides, modified & labeled peptides, clinical peptides, stable isotope-labeled peptides, SPOT peptides, immunogenic peptides, peptide libraries, peptide pools, peptide microarrays, peptide ELISA, enzyme profiling and epitope discovery service. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Part of UCB SA, UCB Celltech is a British company that develops novel therapeutic products for humans. The company is based in Slough, UK and was founded in 2006.

NextPharma Technologies, In. develops, manufactures, packages, and distributes pharmaceutical products and formulations. The firm focuses on lyophilization, sterile fill finish and pellet technologies, and in product manufacturing including cyotoxics, hormones, penicillins, cephalosporins, and controlled drugs. The company was established on October 27, 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Mann Bioinvest Ltd. invests in the life science sector. The company was founded by James Mellon in 2012 and is headquartered in Douglas, the United Kingdom.

KWS BioTest Ltd. provides preclinical pharmacology and drug development for human diseases. Its capabilities include clinical biomarkers, cell biology, bioanalytical services, in vivo pharmacology, vaccine development. The company was founded by Williams A. Neil and Trevor Langley in 2004 and is headquartered in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

Wyeth LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceuticals and biological substances. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.