Matthew Bartholomae

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

NormOxys, Inc. develops small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Its major product is OXY111A. The company was founded by Conrad J Bletzer, Jr. Claude Nicoalu, Jean-Mearie Lehn, Gay Goodman, Ruth Greferath and Roscoe Brady in 2004 and is headquartered in Brighton, MA.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Sequenta, Inc. operates as a biotech company which discovers and develops clinical diagnostics based on immune system status. It develops molecular diagnostic assays based on a sequencing approach to the profiling of T and B cell receptor repertoires. The firm also provides sequencing-based test for minimal residual disease for leukemia and lymphoma. The company was founded by Thomas D. Willis and Malek Faham in 2007 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Andera Partners SCA (Andera Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Pierre-Michel Passy. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

NanoDimension Management Ltd is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Aymeric Sallin. The firm is headquartered in George Town.

LinguaFlex, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes medical devices for the treatment of sleep apnea. It offers the LinguaFlex Tongue Retractor which is a minimally invasive device designed to be inserted into the tongue by a thin needle. The LinguaFlex Tongue Retractor is designed not to interfere with normal tongue functions such as speech and swallowing and to be removed or replaced in a doctor’s office in a short period of time without the need for anesthesia. The company was founded by Ira Sanders in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

ProFibrix BV develops and markets products for the hemostasis and regenerative medicine markets. Its product in pipeline, ProFibrix, is a hemostatic agent for mild to moderate surgical bleeding. The firm operates through its offices located in Leiden and Seattle. It is a subsidiary of The Medicines Company. The company was founded in 2004 by Jaap Koopman and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Epsilon-3 Bio Ltd. develops compounds targeting the removal of cellular debris in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. The company was founded by Martin W. Edwards, Konstantinos Efthymiopoulos, David J. Grainger and Christian De La Tour on June 18, 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Topokine Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for dermatology and medical aesthetics. Its product, the XAF5 Gel, reduces excess subcutaneous fat. The XAF5 is an adipomodulatory compound that inhibits adipocytes by engaging a cell-surface receptor, resulting in down-regulation of key adipocyte transcription factors. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Egalet A/S operates as a specialty pharmaceuticals company. It develops opioid formulations for pain management based on abuse deterrent prolonged release erosion matrix technology in Denmark. The company develops prolonged and delayed release therapeutics for chronic pain management, including Parvulet, a delivery platform for facilitating dispensing of oral doses to pediatric and geriatric patient segments; and Egalet morphine. The company was founded by Jan Quistgaard in 1995 and is headquartered in Vaerloese, Denmark.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Kymo Therapeutics Ltd. develops and commercializes therapeutic products . The company was founded on May 23, 2016 and is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

Palladio Biosciences, Inc. develops transformative medicines for orphan diseases. Its pipeline includes Lixivaptan, a selective vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist for the treatment of polycystic kidney disease, a life-threatening genetic disease. The company was founded by Lorenzo Pellegrini in 2015 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc. manufacturers biological products. The company was founded by Murat Kalayoglu and Michael Singer in 2016 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Human Antibody Factory Ltd. provides research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by David John Grainger and is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

Mavalon Therapeutics Ltd. develops orally available small molecule able to induce glial cell line-derived neurotropic factor production within the brain of parkinson’s patients. The company is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

Kaerus Bioscience France SASU engages in research and development in biotechnology. The company was founded on February 23, 2017 and is headquartered in Orléans, France.