Aptitude Medical Systems provides the next generation of diagnostic testing, delivering lab-quality results quickly and easily wherever people need them. The company's mission is to combine the sensitivity and specificity of lab-based PCR tests with the cost-effectiveness and scalability of antigen tests. The company has developed proprietary synthetic molecules, known as aptamers, which enhance molecular recognition capabilities beyond traditional antibody technologies. This innovation enables early detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders, and heart disease.
Sabin Vaccine Institute is committed to increasing vaccine accessibility, encouraging innovation, and increasing immunization coverage. The Sabin Vaccine Institute strives to improve immunization in low- and middle-income populations most affected by infectious diseases.
SeLux Diagnostics is a developer of the next-generation phenotyping platform that provides personalized antimicrobial therapies to patients. The company is revolutionizing patient care by expediting the selection of personalized antimicrobial therapy for all infectious disease patients. This advancement will save lives, reduce hospital stays, and address the escalating antibiotic resistance epidemic by minimizing the overuse of broad-spectrum agents.
Visby Medical is a diagnostics company that develops PCR-based diagnostic tests for the detection of infectious diseases. The company develops a device platform that aims to redefine the way an illness is tested and treated. They believe that by taking a human-centric, technology-first approach to device development and they can create tools that are both highly accurate and delightful to use.
Stevanato Group is a global provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries. The Group delivers an integrated, end-to-end portfolio of products, processes and services that address customer needs across the entire drug life cycle at each of the development, clinical and commercial stages. Stevanato Group’s core capabilities in scientific research and development, its commitment to technical innovation and its engineering excellence are central to its ability to offer value added solutions to clients.
Opiant Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that develops treatments for drug overdose and addictions leveraging intranasal and injectable delivery technologies. The company, formerly known as Lightlake Therapeutics, was founded in 2009, has a team of addiction experts, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Spero Therapeutics is developing first in class therapeutics for treatment of gram-negative infections. The company leverages a top-tier chemistry and microbiology team, an efficient virtual approach to drug development, and a focus on high potential, novel mechanisms to fill the unmet need for early stage therapeutics targeting serious bacterial infections. Its lead program addresses a novel target driving virulence and persistence of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections and other gram-negative pathogens.
Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track five key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. The Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.
Spectral AI, Inc. is a predictive analytics company that develops proprietary AI algorithms and optical technology for wound healing predictions. Using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution, an internally developed AI technology and multispectral imaging system which has received FDA Breakthrough Designation for burn indication, Spectral AI is able to distinguish between non-healing and healing human tissue invisible to the naked eye. Spectral AI is working towards providing 'Day One' healing assessments for burn wounds and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution.
Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: BSLN). Through the integrated research, development and commercial operations of its Swiss subsidiary Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd., the company focuses on providing innovative pharmaceutical products in the therapeutic areas of bacterial infections, fungal infections and oncology, targeting the medical challenge of rising resistance and nonresponse to current treatment options.
Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company that is dedicated to improving healthcare by developing, manufacturing, and marketing accurate yet easy-to-use molecular systems and tests. By automating highly complex and time-consuming manual procedures, the company's solutions deliver a better way for institutions of any size to perform sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the company is focusing on those applications where accurate, rapid, and actionable test results are needed most, such as managing infectious diseases and cancer.
SeLux Diagnostics is a developer of the next-generation phenotyping platform that provides personalized antimicrobial therapies to patients. The company is revolutionizing patient care by expediting the selection of personalized antimicrobial therapy for all infectious disease patients. This advancement will save lives, reduce hospital stays, and address the escalating antibiotic resistance epidemic by minimizing the overuse of broad-spectrum agents.
Spectral AI, Inc. is a predictive analytics company that develops proprietary AI algorithms and optical technology for wound healing predictions. Using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution, an internally developed AI technology and multispectral imaging system which has received FDA Breakthrough Designation for burn indication, Spectral AI is able to distinguish between non-healing and healing human tissue invisible to the naked eye. Spectral AI is working towards providing 'Day One' healing assessments for burn wounds and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution.
Visby Medical is a diagnostics company that develops PCR-based diagnostic tests for the detection of infectious diseases. The company develops a device platform that aims to redefine the way an illness is tested and treated. They believe that by taking a human-centric, technology-first approach to device development and they can create tools that are both highly accurate and delightful to use.
First Light Biosciences develops breakthrough automated medical diagnostic products for rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective detection of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI). The products address the need for cost-effective and accurate diagnostics to meet the explosive growth in testing. New testing is being driven by clinical studies showing that testing for infectious agents can help to dramatically lower the rate of hospital infections. Based on its proprietary MultiPath detection technology, First Light’s products combine the performance of the most advanced commercial laboratory tests with unprecedented affordability and ease-of-use.
Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. It includes a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing of rationally defined bacterial consortia in powder form to help physicians have access to live bacteria drugs to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.
Quidel Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of point-of-care (POC) diagnostic solutions for infectious diseases, and reproductive and women's health. It provides POC and other diagnostic tests under the QuickVue, QuickVue+, QuickVue Advance, Metra, Quidel, and MicroVue brand names. The company offers products for infectious diseases, such as Influenza, Group A Strep, and Respiratory Syncitial Virus; and for reproductive and women's health, including pregnancy, Chlamydia, Bacterial Vaginosis, and Bone Health. It also offers Immunoassay fecal occult blood test used to detect the presence of blood in stool specimens; and Helicobacter pylori test, a serological test to measure antibodies circulating in the blood caused by the immune response to the H. pylori bacterium. In addition, the company provides veterinary products; and clinical laboratory and research tests that are used in the measurement of circulating immune complexes, complement deficiencies, and complement activation. It sells its products to professionals for use in physician offices, hospitals, clinical laboratories, retail clinics, and wellness screening centers through a network of national and regional distributors, and a direct sales force in the United States, as well as through distributor arrangements primarily in Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. The company has an agreement with BioHelix Corporation for the development and commercialization of in vitro molecular diagnostic tests utilizing isothermal amplification technology. Quidel Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in San Diego, California.
RxSight, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical technology company dedicated to improving the vision of patients following cataract surgery. The RxSight Light Adjustable Lens system, comprised of the RxSight Light Adjustable Lens (LAL®), RxSight Light Delivery Device (LDD) and accessories, is the first and only commercially available intraocular lens (IOL) technology that enables doctors to customize and optimize visual acuity for patients after cataract surgery. The LAL now features ActivShield™ technology, a revolutionary UV protection layer built into the lens.
SeLux Diagnostics is a developer of the next-generation phenotyping platform that provides personalized antimicrobial therapies to patients. The company is revolutionizing patient care by expediting the selection of personalized antimicrobial therapy for all infectious disease patients. This advancement will save lives, reduce hospital stays, and address the escalating antibiotic resistance epidemic by minimizing the overuse of broad-spectrum agents.
Vela Diagnostics Pte. Ltd. provides multipurpose utility for sample lysis, nucleic acid extraction, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.
Emergent BioSolutions is a global life sciences company that is driven by a mission to protect and enhance life. It develops, manufactures, and delivers a portfolio of medical countermeasures for biological and chemical threats as well as emerging infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track five key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. The Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.
Paratek Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies based upon its expertise in novel tetracycline chemistry. Paratek's lead product candidate, omadacycline, is a new tetracycline-derived, broad-spectrum antibiotic being developed in both oral tablet and intravenous formulations for use as a first-line monotherapy antibiotic for ABSSSI, CABP, urinary tract infections (UTI) and other serious community-acquired bacterial infections, particularly when antibiotic resistance is of concern to prescribing physicians. Omadacycline has received Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for both the oral and intravenous formulations in all three of these infectious disease categories. Paratek has Special Protocol Assessment agreements with the FDA for the phase 3 trials planned in ABSSSI and CABP.
GenMark Diagnostics is a molecular diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing its sensor detection technology. The Company’s electrochemical technology enables the detection of up to 72 distinct biomarkers in a single sample. Its XT-8 System has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is designed to support a range of molecular diagnostic tests with a compact workstation and self-contained, disposable test cartridges. Within 30 minutes of receipt of an amplified deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample, its XT-8 System produces results. The XT-8 System supports up to 24 test cartridges, which can be run independently, and are targeted for hospitals and reference laboratories. The Company is also developing its next-generation platform, the AD-8 System, to integrate DNA amplification with its sensor detection technology to enable technicians to place a minimally prepared patient sample into its test cartridge.
MediWound is a biotechnology niche-specialty company. Established in 2001, MediWound is focused on developing, manufacturing, and globally commercializing innovative products that address unmet needs in the fields of severe burns and chronic wound management. MediWound’s goal is to provide healthcare professionals and patients with its innovative burn wound eschar removal agent, NexoBrid. NexoBrid successfully completed clinical development in hospitalized burn wounds and is approved and ready to launch in Europe.
Summit Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company. The company's new mechanism antibiotics are designed to become the new standards of care for the benefit of patients and create value for payors and healthcare providers.
First Light Biosciences develops breakthrough automated medical diagnostic products for rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective detection of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI). The products address the need for cost-effective and accurate diagnostics to meet the explosive growth in testing. New testing is being driven by clinical studies showing that testing for infectious agents can help to dramatically lower the rate of hospital infections. Based on its proprietary MultiPath detection technology, First Light’s products combine the performance of the most advanced commercial laboratory tests with unprecedented affordability and ease-of-use.
Qpex Biopharma develops a pipeline of agents addressing critical needs for the treatment of infectious diseases. It develops multiple antibiotic drugs intended to combat antimicrobial resistance. The company's technology is focused on targeting the treatment of infectious diseases for both inpatient and outpatient cases, deep expertise in the discovery, development and regulatory approval of anti-infective medicines, including an extensive record of working with public/private partnerships focused on new antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance, enabling medical businesses optimal use of products and critical needs for the treatment of infectious diseases in the inpatient and outpatient settings. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
BioFactura has developed the StableFast™ Biomanufacturing Platform, a novel system to rapidly generate stable NS0 cell lines for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The elements of this system include a chemically-defined, serum- and cholesterol-free production medium and pre-adapted parental cells, modular expression vectors that utilize a patented selection strategy, and a proprietary growth supplement that permits rapid generation and cloning of cell lines. This platform is simple to use, fast, and productive. A clonal production cell line can be developed and scaled up to yield over one gram of product in less than eight weeks.
T2 Biosystems is a private company developing a next-generation medical diagnostic platform that enables rapid and accurate diagnostic tests of all types on a single, easy-to-use instrument. The company's proprietary technology combines nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) technology and eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming sample preparation.
Altimmune is an emerging biotechnology company located in Montgomery County, MD. Altimmune develops vaccines and other biological products to address unmet market and public health needs. The company uses a proprietary technology for non-invasive intranasal delivery, and has shown proof of principle in animals and in initial human clinical studies. Vaxin Inc., formerly known as Vaxin Pharmaceuticals and ImmuneFocus Corporation, was founded in 1997 by Emerging Technology Partners. Early experiments revealed that DNA incorporated into an adenovirus can elicit an immune response when placed on the surface of the skin, and subsequently research was expanded to include applications on the skin in the nose as well as experimentation with other vectors.
Spectral AI, Inc. is a predictive analytics company that develops proprietary AI algorithms and optical technology for wound healing predictions. Using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution, an internally developed AI technology and multispectral imaging system which has received FDA Breakthrough Designation for burn indication, Spectral AI is able to distinguish between non-healing and healing human tissue invisible to the naked eye. Spectral AI is working towards providing 'Day One' healing assessments for burn wounds and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution.
Integrated BioTherapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering novel vaccines and therapeutics for emerging infectious diseases. Its antiviral pipeline includes unique pan-filovirus antibody candidates, vaccines, and a variety of other product candidates for emerging viruses.
Summit Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company. The company's new mechanism antibiotics are designed to become the new standards of care for the benefit of patients and create value for payors and healthcare providers.
Velico Medical,, a pre-clinical medical technology company, develops and commercializes products for use in preparing and storing platelets and plasma, including a companion instrument and disposable product for spray drying plasma. The company offers FrontlineODP (On Demand Plasma), a technology to enable blood centers to prepare plasma in a dried powder format instead of freezing it; and FrontlinePPS (Platelet Protection System), a platelet protection technology for mitigating storage-related platelet deterioration. Velico Medical, was formerly known as ZymeQuest. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Sanofi Pasteur SA develops, manufactures, and supplies vaccines in France and internationally. The company provides vaccines for bacterial and viral diseases, including pertussis, diphtheria, typhoid fever, poliomyelitis, influenza, and mumps. It has production sites in France, the United States, Canada, China, Thailand, and Argentina. The company was formerly known as Aventis Pasteur S.A. and changed its name to Sanofi Pasteur SA in 2004. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Lyon, France. The company is headquartered in Lyon, France. Sanofi Pasteur SA operates as a subsidiary of Sanofi-Aventis.
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.
Soligenix is a late-stage research and development biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing products to treat the life-threatening side effects of cancer treatment and serious gastrointestinal diseases where there remains an unmet medical need, as well as developing biodefense vaccines and therapeutics. The company maintains two business segments: BioTherapeutics and BioDefense. Its BioTherapeutics business segment focuses to develop oral beclomethasone dipropionate (orBec or oral BDP) and other biotherapeutic products, including LPMTM Leuprolide. Its BioDefense business segment focuses to convert its ricin toxin vaccine and radiation injury program from early-stage development to advanced development and manufacturing.
Terumo is a global leader in medical technology, based in Tokyo, with a commitment to improving healthcare for nearly a century. The company employs over 25,000 individuals and operates in more than 160 countries, offering a wide range of innovative medical solutions. Initially founded as a manufacturer of thermometers, Terumo has expanded its portfolio to include vascular intervention, cardio-surgical solutions, blood transfusion, cell therapy technologies, and essential medical products for daily clinical practice. Additionally, Terumo Heart focuses on research and innovation, developing advanced products specifically for heart patients. Through its diverse offerings, Terumo aims to provide value to patients, healthcare professionals, and society as a whole.
Spectral AI, Inc. is a predictive analytics company that develops proprietary AI algorithms and optical technology for wound healing predictions. Using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution, an internally developed AI technology and multispectral imaging system which has received FDA Breakthrough Designation for burn indication, Spectral AI is able to distinguish between non-healing and healing human tissue invisible to the naked eye. Spectral AI is working towards providing 'Day One' healing assessments for burn wounds and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) using its DeepView® Wound Imaging Solution.
SIGA is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical solutions for some of the most lethal pathogens – variola (smallpox), Ebola, dengue, Lassa fever and other dangerous viruses. Our objective is to discover, develop, and commercialize drugs to prevent and treat these high-priority threats. Our mission is to disarm dreaded viral diseases and create robust, modern biodefense countermeasures.