AC Immune SA is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery and development of therapeutic and diagnostic products for neurodegenerative diseases. It leverages proprietary technology platforms to discover, design, and develop novel, proprietary medicines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein misfolding. The company was founded by Jean-Marie Lehn, Claude Nicolau, Roscoe Brady, Fred van Leuven, Ruth Greferath, Andrea Pfeifer, and Alexey V. Eleesiv on February 13, 2003 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Genentech is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. It creates multiple products on the market and a development pipeline. The company became a member of the Roche Group in 2009. As part of their merger agreement, Roche and Genentech combined their pharmaceutical operations in the United States. Genentech’s South San Francisco campus now serves as the headquarters for Roche pharmaceutical operations in the United States. Genentech’s Research and Early Development section operates as an independent center within Roche. Genentech was founded in 1976 by [Robert Swanson](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/robert-a-swanson) and [Herbert Boyer](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/herbert-w-boyer). It is headquartered in South San Francisco, C.A.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

University Health Network (UHN) is a healthcare and medical research organization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest such research organization in Canada and North America, ranking first in Canada for total research funding. It was named Canada's top research hospital by Research Infosource in 2015, 2016 and 2017. It was created in 1986 by the Government of Ontario through the merger of four major hospitals: Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, with the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute merged in with The Toronto Hospital in 1999 and the name changed to the University Health Network. All four hospitals are affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and serve as teaching hospitals for resident physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professions. UHN also operates The Michener Institute, an applied health sciences college that opened in 1958.

Massachusetts General Hospital was established to provide care to Boston's sick, regardless of socioeconomic status—an innovative idea in 1811. In the words of their founder, John Warren, MD, “When in distress, every man becomes their neighbor.” They subsequently became the first teaching hospital for Harvard University’s new medical school and have been redefining excellence in healthcare ever since. They have remained at the forefront of medicine by fostering a culture of collaboration, pushing the boundaries of medical research, educating the brightest medical minds and maintaining an unwavering commitment to the diverse community they were created to serve. They believe that because of diversity they excel, through inclusion they respect their community, and with a keen focus on equity they serve, heal, educate and innovate at the highest levels. Their first priority is the well-being of their patients—near and far. As a team they are able to maintain a singular focus on providing the highest quality, most compassionate care to each and every patient.

Vivoryon Therapeutics NV is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of therapeutic products for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Its product pipeline includes PQ912, PBD-C06, and PQ1565. The company was founded by Hans-Ulrich Demuth and Konrad Glund on July 25, 1997 and is headquartered in Halle, Germany.

Alnylam is the translation of RNA interference (RNAi) into a whole new class of innovative medicines with the potential to transform the lives of people afflicted with rare genetic, cardio-metabolic, hepatic infectious, and central nervous system (CNS)/ocular diseases. Based on Nobel Prize-winning science, RNAi therapeutics represent a powerful, clinically validated approach for the treatment of a wide range of severe and debilitating diseases.

Elan Pharmaceuticals LLC develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It specializes in treatment of neurological and autoimmune diseases. The firm's drugs are used in the treatment of for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and rheumatoid arthritis diseases. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of GSK Plc, GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Ltd. is a British company located in Middlesex that functions as an investment holding company. It was founded in 2012.\nThe company says this about itself: The Company is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline Group (the \"Group\"). The Company's principal activities are the development, enhancement, maintenance, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets owned by the Company which may include but are not limited to, licensing out intellectual property rights relating to pharmaceutical products to the GlaxoSmithKline Group of companies (the \"Group\") and carrying out research and development activities.

ProteoTech, Inc., also known as Proteoglycan Technologies, Inc., operates as a drug development company in the United States. The company offers therapeutics and diagnostics for amyloid diseases. Its products include Exebryl-1, a molecule compound to prevent the formation and accumulation of the soluble and insoluble forms of beta-amyloid protein, as well as amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer's brains of disease victims; PeptiClere, a nasal spray for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; Synuclere for the treatment of Parkinson's disease; and Systebryl, a small molecule compound for the treatment of systemic amyloidosis associated with type 2 diabetes. ProteoTech, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Neurochem (International) Ltd. provides licensing and partnering activities. Its services include supply chain management and sales, clinical, and regulatory & marketing functions required to develop products. Neurochem is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Glaxo Group Ltd. operates through its subsidiary Glaxo Laboratories Ltd. that engages in the production of food products for infants such as Ostermilk, Complan, Casilan, Farex. Glaxo Group Ltd. was formerly known as Glaxo Laboratories Ltd. and changed its name to Glaxo Group Ltd. in 1962. The company is based in Brentford, United Kingdom. Glaxo Group Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Glaxosmithkline plc.

SOM Biotech is a drug innovation company based on a pioneering AI-based drug discovery technology – SOM AI PRO -, that has built a robust pipeline focused mainly on Orphan CNS products with very high unmet need and blockbuster potential. SOM AI PRO has been validated with 2 successful Phase 2 trials (TTR Amyloidosis, Chorea in Huntington disease), and four programs are at the preclinical stage. SOM Biotech applies the proprietary AI-based drug discovery technology for building its pipeline and strategic collaborations with the companies. The AI technology can be applied in any therapeutic area and allows advancing drug candidates into Phase 2a in less than one year (through 505b2 pathway). It also allows improving the effectiveness of drug discovery and drug life cycle management by the identification of novel targets and indications for the molecules.

Pentraxin Therapeutics Ltd is a University College London spin out company founded in 2001 by Professor Sir Mark Pepys FRS. In September 2011 Sir Mark retired as head of medicine at the Royal Free Campus of UCL and became the first Director of the new UCL Wolfson Drug Discovery Unit, which he created with funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Since 2012 the core funding of the Unit has been provided by the NIHR via its UCL/UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. Pentraxin holds the intellectual property and proprietary knowledge created by Sir Mark and his research group.

NHC Communications, Inc. manufactures network switching and test equipment for local telecom service providers, corporations and multi-tenant buildings. It also offers the XPoint product line geared for smaller network applications. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Mount-Royal, Canada

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of human therapeutic drugs using antisense technology. It operates through the Ionis Core segment. The Ionis Core segment exploits a novel drug discovery platform to generate a pipeline of drugs. The company was founded by Stanley T. Crooke, David J. Ecker, Christopher K. Mirabelli, and Brett P. Monia in 1989 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Sapreme Technologies BV operates as a biotech company that develops a platform technology to enable cytosolic delivery of macromolecule therapeutics. The company was founded by Ruben Postel in 2016 and is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.