Paul Grant Higham

Valo Therapeutics Oy is an immunotherapy company based in Helsinki, FI. The Finnish company is focused on developing innovative immunotherapy approaches against cancer and infectious disease. Valo Therapeutics's lead platform, PeptiCRAd, was developed out of the laboratory of Professor Vincenzo Cerullo at the University of Helsinki. The company is also developing PeptiEnv and PeptiVax, among other neoantigen strategies, in collaboration with Professor Cerullo. The company's PeptiChip technology enables the rapid and accurate identification of tumor antigens. Valo Therapeutics is also developing antigen-coated oncolytic viruses as anti-cancer therapeutic vaccines. The company was founded in 2016, and Paul Grant Higham has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Glycotope GmbH operates as a biotechnology company to develop pharmaceutical therapeutics and nutrition additives. It focuses on the optimization and humanization of therapeutically relevant sugar structures on biopharmaceuticals known as glycosylation and on the development of innovative antibodies targeting glycostructures on cell surfaces. The company was founded by Steffen Goletz and Andreas Eckert in Febraury 2001 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops anti-cancer immunotherapy products. The firm specializes in the discovery and development of immunotherapy products against cancer. It develops IMA901, a combination of multiple tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans Georg Rammensee, Hansjörg Schild, and Peter Brossart in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

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.