Jason Slingsby

Zytoprotec GmbH develops and manufactures drugs for peritoneal dialysis. It specializes in the research and development of its pipeline, which encompasses PD-protec, a patented-protected solution and ICO-protec, a cytoprotective PD solution to address the market for non-glucose based PD solutions. The firm focus areas encompass portfolio management, therapeutic approach, patent management and research services. The company was founded by Karl Altenhuber, Christoph Aufricht and Christian Hoenig in 2007 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Part of Sosei Group Corp., Sosei Co. Ltd. is a world-leader in GPCR medicine design and development. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company obtains and maintains intellectual property rights to protect its innovations and technologies.

ProtAffin was spun out of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz in July 2005. The company currently employs 16 people in modern office and laboratory facilities in Graz and Vienna and plans to expand to 27 by the end of 2009. They are well financed by a syndicate of 5 international venture capital investors. The company has a balanced 'platform-product' strategy: a lead compound in pre-clinical development and a core discovery technology by which they are supporting a sustainable pipeline of products via its unique CellJammer® discovery technology platform. ProtAffin is leveraging its leading technical expertise in protein-glycan interactions to develop novel biological products. They are currently collaborating with a number of university groups in Austria, Germany, Brazil and the UK. They plan to collaborate with Pharma and Biotech companies interested to access its technology for the development of novel anti-inflammatory products with a unique mechanism of action.