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Cerevance is a Cambridge, UK-headquartered biotechnology company developing precision medicines for neurodegenerative diseases including ALS, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. The firm utilizes its Nuclear Receptor Interaction Classification platform, built from expression data across more than 15,000 human brain samples, to prioritize CNS targets. Cerevance has advanced CVN424 into Phase III trials for Parkinson's and CVN293 into Phase II for ALS. Backed by investors like Biogen and Takeda, the company operates R&D facilities in the UK and United States, focusing on therapies that address disease progression.

Sensorion SA is a France-based clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing therapies to restore, treat, and prevent hearing loss. The company's product is in phase 2a clinical development, SENS-401 (Arazasetron) in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSNHL). SENS-401 is being developed to treat cochlear pathologies. The Company does business in a single operating segment: conducting research and development to discover drugs to treat inner ear disorders with a view to their future marketing. The company's pipeline programs are SENS-401 SSNHL, SENS-401 CIO, GJB2-GT, GJB2-GT, SENS-401 Cochlear, and others.

Kanaph Therapeutics Inc is a biotech company dedicated to developing anticancer drugs and ophthalmic disease treatments based on human genome-based drug development technology. Its core technology lies in identifying novel targets with high unmet medical needs through the analysis of human genome data and disease-specific biological signatures, and in developing drugs of various modalities, including bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), and synthetic drugs, based on these findings. The groups pipeline products are KNP-101, KNP-301, KNP-502, KNP-503, KNP-504, and KNP-701.

Genelux Corp is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company focuses on developing next-generation oncolytic viral immunotherapies for patients suffering from aggressive or difficult-to-treat solid tumor types. Its pipeline products include Olvi-Vec (olvimulogene nanivacirepvec), Lung, and Pancreatic Cancer.

Nanexa AB is a pharmaceutical company developing injectable drug products based on the proprietary drug delivery system PharmaShell - the high drug load delivery system enabling the next generation long-acting injectables through atomic layer precision. The company develops its products and also has collaboration agreements with several pharma companies, among others AstraZeneca. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Nordic countries.

Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing etripamil for the treatment of cardiovascular medicines. Etripamil is a calcium channel blocker developed as a rapid-onset nasal spray to be administered by the patient to treat episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, or PSVT. The company has an ongoing Phase 2 clinical trial for patients with atrial fibrillation experiencing a rapid ventricular rate (AFib-RVR).

Captor Therapeutics SA is a biopharmaceutical company. It is focused on development of protein degradation drugs for cancer and autoimmune diseases, which have limited or no known treatment options.

Equillium Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company engaged in developing novel therapeutics to treat severe autoimmune and inflammatory, or immuno-inflammatory, disorders with high unmet medical need. The company intends to commercialize its product candidates either independently or through partnerships, or otherwise monetize its pipeline through strategic transactions. Itolizumab (EQ001), a clinical-stage product candidate, is an anti-CD6 immune-modifying monoclonal antibody, or mAb, that selectively targets the CD6-ALCAM signaling pathway to downregulate pathogenic T effector cells while preserving T regulatory cells critical for maintaining a balanced immune response. The company's other clinical-stage and pre-clinical-stage candidates include EQ101 and EQ302.

Aardvark Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small-molecule therapeutics to activate innate homeostatic pathways for the treatment of metabolic diseases. It is focused on on developing selective compounds, targeting Bitter Taste Receptors (TAS2Rs) for hunger-associated conditions. Its product candidate, ARD-101, is an oral gut-restricted small-molecule agonist of certain TAS2Rs expressed in the gut lumen for which have initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial for hyperphagia associated with PWS.

Coya Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing proprietary medicinal products to modulate the function of regulatory T cells. It is developing its multi-modality Treg therapies for neurodegenerative, autoimmune, and metabolic diseases.