Investments

 

Acadia Pharmaceuticals
San Diego, US
Small molecules for CNS disorders.
Albireo
Gothenburg, Sweden
Small molecules for gastrointestinal diseases (AstraZeneca spin out).
Altus Pharmaceuticals
Boston, US
Protein therapeutics for metabolic diseases (Vertex spin-out).
Arakis (acquired by Sosei)
Oxford, UK
Reprofiled molecules for inflammatory and respiratory diseases.
Ark Therapeutics
London, UK
Gene therapy for oncology and haematology.
ARYx Therapeutics
San Francisco, US
Safer drugs through retrometabolic engineering.
Atani
Tokyo, Japan
Developing western drugs for the Japanese market.
Avant Immunotherapeutics
Boston, US
Small molecules for the manipulation of the immune system.
Cerimon Pharmaceuticals
San Francisco, US
Therapies for pain, autoimmune and inflammatory disease.
Chroma Therapeutics
Oxford, UK
Small molecules for oncology and inflammation.
Contec Medical
Israel
Medical imaging device for diagnosis and surgery.
DeveloGen (acquired by Evotec)
Goettingen, Germany
Peptides and small molecules for metabolic diseases.
DrugAbuse Sciences (acquired by Elbion)
Paris, France
Small molecules for the treatment of addictions.
Idenix
Boston, US
Small molecules for Hepatitis B and C.
Immgenics (acquired by Abgenix – now Amgen)
Vancouver, Canada
Antibody selection technology.
Intercell
Vienna, Austria
Vaccines for bacterial and viral infections.
Morphochem (acquired by Biovertis)
Munich, Germany
Small molecule anti-infectives and anti-coagulants.
Nabriva Therapeutics
Vienna, Austria
Small molecules for bacterial infections (Sandoz spin-out).
OmniSonics Medical Technologies
Boston, US
Device for clearance of occluded blood vessels.
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
San Francisco, US
Developing antibodies to cancer stem cells.
Paratek Pharmaceuticals
Boston, US
Small molecules for bacterial infections.
Pharmion (acquired by Celgene)
Boulder, US
Small molecules for oncology and haematology.
Phenomix
San Diego, US
Small molecules for Type 2 diabetes and Hepatitis C.
Proteolix (acquired by Onyx Pharmaceuticals)
San Francisco, US
Therapies targeting the proteasome to treat oncology and autoimmune diseases.
Sequenom
San Diego, US
Diagnostics for rapid genetic analysis.
Targacept
Winston-Salem, US
Small molecules for CNS conditions.
Viacell (acquired by PerkinElmer)
Boston, US
Cord blood banking and cell therapies.
Weston Medical
Stradbroke, UK
Needle free drug delivery.
Zosano Pharma
San Francisco, US
Transdermal drug delivery technology (Alza/J&J spin-out).