John Bondo Hansen

SWMF Life Science Venture Fund LP invests in life science and medical device companies located in Southwest Michigan. It provides financing for start-up and early stage capital requirements.

Novo Nordisk Fonden provides basis for the commercial and research activities conducted by the companies. It also supports scientific and humanitarian purposes activities. It awards grants for research within biomedicine, biotechnology, general practice and family medicine, nursing, and art history at public research institutions. It bridges gap between the discoveries made by researchers in biomedicine and biotechnology and their commercial application. The company was founded by August Krogh, Marie Krogh, Harald Pedersen, Hans Christian Hagedorn, August Kongsted and Thorvald Pedersen in 1922 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Novo Holding A/S provides financial investments and manages the Novo Nordisk Foundation?s assets. It offers seed and venture capital to development stage companies and takes ownership positions in companies within life science and biotechnology. The company was founded on September 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Abbott GmbH & Co. KG develops and manufactures health care products. It is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, nutritional, and hospital products. It offers pharmaceutical and diagnostic products ranging from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure. The company is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S specializes in the development, production and marketing of pharmaceutical products. It offers products in the fields of urology, infertility, obstetrics, gynecology, gastroenterology and maternal health. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

DADES A/S provides real estate investment services. It owns and operates shopping centers, office buildings, and residential properties. The company was founded by Ejnar Danielsen in 1937 and is headquartered in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

Dako Denmark A/S designs and manufactures cancer diagnostic systems. It produces reagents, antibodies, instruments, and software solutions to make diagnoses and determine treatments for patients suffering from cancer. The firm's product areas encompass Immunohistochemistry, pharmacoDiagnostics, molecular pathology, Hematoxylin and Eosin stain, special stains, flow Cytometry, and specific proteins. The company was founded by Niels Harboe in 1966 and is headquartered in Glostrup, Denmark.

Karolinska Development AB (Private Equity) (Karolinska Development) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Karolinska Development AB founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Solna.

LEO Pharma A/S develops, manufactures and markets drugs within the area of dermatology and critical care medicine. It supplies medicines to patients suffering from skin infections and diseases such as psoriasis and eczema, thrombosis, kidney disease and cancer. The company was founded by August Kongsted and Anton Antons in 1908 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammation. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs based upon chromatin biology and novel cell accumulation approaches. The firm uses chromatin biology, drug accumulation approaches to discover and develop cancer, inflammation treatments and small molecule drugs. The company was founded by David Allis, Alan Hornsby Davidson, Alan Hastings Drummond, Anthony Kouzarides and Paul Workman in September 2001 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Accuro Immunology AB develops and manufactures active immunotherapy products. The firm's products help to treat the patients suffering from problems with immune escape/evasion. The company was founded by Peter Gunnar Maurits Wolpert and Elisabeth Wolpert in 1999 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Linköping University Hospital provides healthcare services.

Novo Nordisk, Inc. operates diabetes care company. It offers biopharmaceuticals, chronic weight management, human growth hormone therapy and hemophilla management services. The firm also provides rare bleeding disorders, growth hormone related disorders, and women's health. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plainsboro, NJ.

Symphogen A/S provides antibody therapeutics for the treatment of cancers. It offers oncology products and creates selected antibody mixtures that address multiple oncology targets in a single drug product. The firm’s pipeline is fueled by its technology suite capable of identifying, selecting, manufacturing, and characterizing optimal antibody mixtures. The company was founded by Kirsten Aarup Drejer, Thomas Feldthus, Eigil Bjerl Nielsen, Anker Gunvald Lundemose, Kim Arthur Hueg, and John Soerensen Haurum in 2000 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) is an organization that brings together around 1,300 academy members and 250 companies to bridge the gap between academia, business, and politics. The non-profit company is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish company's aim is to work towards people's ability to contribute positively to society. The organization runs an internship program called Tekniksprånget, which gives young people in Sweden the opportunity to test the engineering profession through a four-month paid internship. The program has been running since 2012 and aims to inspire more people to choose a higher technical education. The CEO of the company is Björn O. Nilsson.

Novo Ventures (Novo Ventures) is a venture capital operating division of Novo Nordisk Fonden. It engages in investment activities. The firm was established in 1999, and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

KDev Exploratory AB provides drug discovery solutions. It performs discovery research in various therapeutic areas, such as screening in oncology, neuroscience, lead finding, characterization in inflammation and angiogenesis/age-related macular degeneration. The company was founded by David Jern in 2000 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Aprea Therapeutics AB operates as a holding company that provides research performed at Karolinska Institutet. It focuses its activities on discovery and development of novel anticancer compounds targeting the tumor suppressor protein. Its product has been tested in a Phase I/II dose escalating safety study in patients with refractory hematological malignancies or prostate carcinoma. It pursues the development of an anticancer drug, APR-246, which has p53-based mechanism for patients with ovarian cancer. The company was founded by Klas Gosta Wiman, Galina Selivanova, Vladimir Bykov, Wenjie Bao, Natalia Issaeva, and Staffan Strömblad in 2003 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Novo Principal Investments (Novo Principal) is a private equity operating division of Novo Nordisk Fonden. The firm was established in 1999, and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Akinion Pharmaceuticals AB operates as a holding company that focuses on the development of pharmaceutical for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. It develops, markets, and sells a product based on Biovitrum’s anti leukemia kinase inhibitor research. It is a drug development that manufactures a lead candidate drug, AKN-028, which is a small molecule kinase inhibitor. The company was founded by Vendela Parrow in 2009 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Anergis SA develops allergy vaccines. It is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery and development of novel, proprietary allergy vaccines that target commercially attractive indications and the firm’s vaccines are based on its IP-protected Contiguous Overlapping Peptide technology.The company was founded by Francois Spertini in August 2001 and is headquartered in Epalinges, Switzerland.

KDev Oncology AB offers research and development of new cancer treatments. It provides know-how in the field of oncology. The company was founded by David Jern on July 14, 2005 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Modus Therapeutics AB operates as a clinical-stage drug development company that develops new pharmaceutical therapies designed to restore impaired blood flow and oxygen transport in diseases with unmet medical needs. The firm’s product Sevuparin, evaluates in a phase II clinical trial in sickle cell disease (SCD) and repeated painful crises in SCD, so called vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) that leads to loss of vital organ function and reduced life span. The company was founded by Carl Mats Wahlgren in 2011 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Eternygen GmbH engages in the research and development of drugs. It develops new drugs for dietary-related metabolic diseases which include obesity, diabetes mellitus and fatty liver. The company was founded by Marco J. Janezic in June 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

apceth Biopharma GmbH operates as a contract development & manufacturing organization. The firm specializes in cell-based and gene therapy products (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products, ATMPs). Its GMP services include quality management, quality control, assay development, process development, cell banking & formulation and project management. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Inthera Bioscience AG engages in the research in as well as development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical, biological, and other products used in the fields of human and veterinary medicine. It also provides related consultancy services. The company was founded by Ulrich Kessler and Paramjit Singh Arora on September 20, 2013 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Novo Holdings A/S (Investment Company) (Novo Holdings-IC) is the investment portfolio division of Novo Holdings A/S, a holding company headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark. They are ultimately owned by Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novo Nordisk Foundation). Founded in 1999, Novo Holdings-IC manages a broad portfolio of the Foundation’s financial assets.

TACALYX GmbH engages in the discovery and development of Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigenantibodies to treat cancer. The company was founded by Peter Sondermann, Peter H. Seeberger, and Oren Moscovitz and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.