James Shannon

Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with both development and commercial capabilities focused on pain management and women's healthcare. It markets a portfolio of prescription pharmaceuticals and a line of prenatal vitamins. The firm's product candidates include XP12B, a tranexamic acid modified release oral tablet for the reduction of menstrual blood loss in women, who suffer from menorrhagia or excessive menstrual bleeding; and XP20B is a combination propoxyphene and acetaminophen modified release oral tablet for the treatment of mild to moderate pain. The company was founded by Gilbert R. Gonzales and Roger Dale Griggs in May 2001 and is headquartered in Newport, KY.

Endocyte, Inc. engages in the development of targeted therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. It uses a proprietary technology to create novel small molecule drug conjugates and companion imaging diagnostics for personalized targeted therapies. Its small molecule drug conjugates are actively target receptors that are over-expressed on diseased cells. The company was founded by P. Ron Ellis and Philip S. Low on December 6, 1995 and is headquartered in West Lafayette, IN.

Part of Novartis AG, Sandoz Ltd. is a British company that develops, produces and markets medicines. The company is based in Camberley, UK and was founded in 1981.

Novartis Pharma AG engages in the research in as well as the production and distribution of pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, and biotechnological products. It also provides related services. The company was founded on October 25, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Part of Lifexx SA, Immodulon Therapeutics Ltd. is a late-stage clinical biotechnology company based in Uxbridge, UK. Immodulon is developing a highly differentiated cancer immunotherapy approach that primes the patient’s own innate immune system with the aim to significantly enhance the efficacy of a broad range of anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors. The British company is developing imm-101, a heat-killed mycobacterium obuense, as a broad-spectrum immunomodulatory agent with the potential to treat a range of difficult-to-treat tumors including those considered to be immunologically “ cold, ” such as pancreatic cancer. Immodulon's imm-101 based immunotherapy complements other cancer therapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy. The company is focused on developing safe and effective immunotherapy treatments. The company was founded in 2007 by Charles Akle, John L. Stanford. Gertjan Bartlema has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Founded in 1998, Kyowa Kirin Ltd. is a British pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceutical products. Part of Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd., the company is based in London, UK.

ViiV Healthcare Ltd. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. Its medicine include Triumeq, Tivicay, Selzentry, Celesentri, Epzicom, Kivexa, Ziagen, Trizivir, Combivir, Retrovir AZT, Lexiva, Telzir, Viracept and Rescriptor. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Brentford, the United Kingdom.

Impatients N.V. operates an online platform for drug innovations. It provides physicians and patients that are excluded from clinical trials access to drugs in development via early access programs. The company was founded by Ronald Brus, SJaak Vink, Govert J. Schouten, Witt Jan, Erdem Yavuz, and René Beukema in 2012 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the United Kingdom.

Leyden Laboratories B.V. is a biotechnology company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Leyden Labs aims to protect humanity from known and future viruses by targeting commonalities of viral families. The Dutch company has developed a portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates that may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The company's energetic team of world-renowned biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses. Leyden Labs is backed with $200m by blue-chip investors Casdin Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital, Byers Capital/Brook Byers, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Invus, and Bluebird Ventures. The company was founded in June 2020 by Koenraad Wiedhaup, Jaap Goudsmit, Domenico Valerio, and Ronald H. P. Brus, with Koenraad Wiedhaup serving as the CEO since incorporation.