Sofinnova Ventures

    Mike Powell
    Managing Director 

    Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. United States

    Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying its proprietary technology platform for the discovery and development of human therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of a variety of disease conditions, including cancer, inflammation, metabolic disease and infectious disease. The Company has constructed antibody libraries containing fully human antibodies and designed to facilitate the rapid identification and isolation of highly specific, antibody therapeutic product candidates that are fully human and that bind to disease targets.

    Mr Jaisim Shah
    LinkedIn logo Chief Business Officer 

    Stanford Universit, School of Medicine

    Daria Mochly-Rosen
    Professor, Chemical and Systems Biology and Sr Associate Dean for Research 

    Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. United States

    Sun Pharmaceutical Industries seeks strategic alliance opportunities in CNS, dermatology, oncology, ophthalmology, and respiratory therapeutic areas.  Strengthening market presence while maintaining a strong customer focus is a high priority area for the company and its partners.

    In addition Sun has consolidated its work related to new molecules, specialty products, and innovative drug delivery systems into a subsidiary listed company, namely Sun Pharmaceuticals Advanced Research Company (SPARC).

     

    Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is a publicly traded international specialty pharma company, commercializing products in 30 markets, also a manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients.  In branded markets Sun’s products are prescribed in chronic therapy areas such as neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, gastroenterology, diabetology and respiratory.

     

    Sun's drive for growth has remained strong since its inception with just five (5) products in 1983.  Since 1983, several milestones have been accomplished allowing Sun to emerge as an important specialty pharma company with technically complex products.  In addition, Sun is the top pharmaceutical company by market capitalization in India.

     

    Within the past 15 years Sun has used a combination of internal development and external acquisitions to drive growth.  Important mergers have been completed in EU, India, and U.S. including internationally approved manufacturing plants in Ohio, New Jersey, and Tennessee.

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    James Hattersley
    James Hattersley
    Vice President of Business Development 

    Sunovion Pharmaceuticals United States

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    Mr Steve Nigro

    Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc. United States

    Late stage specialty CNS pharmaceutical company with neurology and psych assets looking for partnerships for in and out license.

    Website:
    www.supernus.com
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    Dr Woody Bryan
    Vice President of Business Development and Licensing 

    Synthetic Genomics United States

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    Mr Justin Bingham

    Targacept, Inc. United States

    Targacept, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRGT) is a biopharmaceutical company developing NNR Therapeutics™ for nervous system diseases, including negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, ADHD, overactive bladder and Alzheimer’s disease.  Our industry-leading expertise in the biology of NNRs and the discovery and development of novel compounds that selectively target them have enabled a robust clinical-stage product pipeline and multiple preclinical candidates.

     

    Our strategy is to selectively collaborate with leading companies with the resources and capabilities to assist us in developing and commercializing some of our product candidates, particularly in target indications for which our collaborator has significant expertise or that involve large primary care markets. We generally seek co-promotion or co-commercialization rights in alliances.

     

    We have a collaboration with AstraZeneca focused in cognitive disorders that includes AZD-3480 and AZD-1446.  We have the option to co-promote  certain compounds licensed under our cognitive disorders agreement to selected specialist physicians in the US.

     

     We are currently interested in exploring alliances or collaborations for:

    • TC-5619, which is in on-going Phase 2 trials in negative symptoms of schizophrenia and ADHD predominantly inattentive subtype; • TC-6499, which in a Phase 2a study showed encouraging potential to enhance GI motility relevant to treating GI/GU disorders such as diabetic gastroparesis and IBS-C/CIC; and • Targacept’s Parkinson’s disease/levodopa-induced dyskinesia program to exploit NNR Therapeutics for symptomatic treatment and disease modification.

     

    We are receptive to evaluating clinical-stage CNS, GI/GU or Orphan opportunities to complement our pipeline.

     

     

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    Jeffrey Brennan
    Jeffrey Brennan
    SVP of Business and Commercial Development & Chief Business Officer 

    Teikoku Pharma USA United States

    Teikoku Pharma USA Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teikoku Seiyaku Inc. of Japan, is an international specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, and manufactures pharmaceutical products. Teikoku focuses its efforts in three therapeutic areas; Pain Management, CNS and Oncology.  Teikoku's main product is Lidoderm® (Lidocaine 5% Patch) for PHN, distributed by Endo Pharmaceuticals in the US, Grunenthal GmbH in Europe. Our core technology platforms include; passive and active transdermal delivery systems as well as injectables. We are currently actively seeking to in-license/acquire later stage product for the US, Europe and Japan.

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    Mr Francisco Bejar
    LinkedIn logo Director, Business Development 

    TherapeuticsMD United States

    TherapeuticsMD (TXMD) is a publicly traded Women’s Health company located in South Florida.

    TXMD currently has a national sales force calling on OB-GYNs in the US and a strong pipeline of late stage HRT products. We are currently pursuing in-licensing opportunities within the Women’s Health space and considering out-licensing International partners for our 3 late stage HRT products.

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    Mr Robert Finizio
    Chief Exectutive Officer