Edward Currie

SIRS-Lab GmbH focuses on the development and commercialization of solutions for identification and detection of pathogens and antibiotic resistances. The company offers VYOO sepsis test that detects various bacterial and fungal species that cause sepsis, and LOOXSTER, which concentrates bacterial and fungal DNA contained in DNA-preparations, such as whole blood or ascites. It also provides gene expression services. SIRS-Lab was founded in 2000 by Stefan Russwurm, Eberhard Straube, Konrad Reinhart, and Hans Peter Saluz and is headquartered in Jena, Germany.

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.

Kuros Biosurgery Holding AG operated as a medical technology company. It engaged in the development of biologic and biomaterial-based product candidates for localized therapy in trauma, spine and wound care. The company was founded by Marion Bavand, Didier Cowling, Dominik Ellenrieder, and Jeffrey Hubbel on April 3, 2008 and was headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.