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Company profiles of the<br />
Special “<strong>Industrial</strong><br />
<strong>Biotechnology</strong>”<br />
SPECIAL<br />
Magazin<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>Biotechnology</strong><br />
Vol. 3<br />
Markets – Technologies – Financing – Investments
Service<br />
“Company Profile” for <strong>Industrial</strong><br />
<strong>Biotechnology</strong> Champions<br />
Dear Reader, On the following pages you will find a new<br />
format of GoingPublic Magazin, especially developed for<br />
this special, the so-called “Company Profile”. It is a tool<br />
for <strong>com</strong>panies to present themselves to the <strong>com</strong>munity.<br />
The continuously growing number of players in the more<br />
and more broadening field of industrial biotechnology<br />
makes it hard to follow and to find the right cooperation<br />
partners. Moreover, especially for small and medium<br />
sized <strong>com</strong>panies, it takes often a long time to connect<br />
with the right industry partners looking for new technologies<br />
being able to bridge gaps between chemistry and<br />
biology and to find potential customers. This holds true<br />
for the yet untypical industry partner besides the traditional<br />
ones like food, feed and pharma where historically<br />
biotechnology played a big role from the beginning.<br />
This year’s presenters are a mixture of <strong>com</strong>panies of all<br />
kind. Not only small and medium sized enterprises present<br />
themselves looking for strong partners in user industries.<br />
It is also the other way round: Some of the big player can<br />
be found in a row of this years “Company profiles”. In this<br />
AMSilk has developed a unique process<br />
for producing spider silk on an<br />
industrial scale. Spider silk has<br />
attract ed interest for thousands of<br />
years, <strong>com</strong>bining tensile strengths<br />
rivaling that of steel while having the<br />
elasti city of rubber on a weight-toweight<br />
basis. In this <strong>com</strong>bination,<br />
silks reveal toughness two to three<br />
times that of synthetic fibers like<br />
Kevlar. Spider silk causes no inflammation<br />
or allergic reaction. Spider<br />
silk proteins can be assembled in all<br />
three dimensions to build distinct<br />
macroscopic structures like films,<br />
spheres, fibers and nonwovens, etc.<br />
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AMSilk GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
AMSilk produces Spidersilk TM Cleantech Biopolymers,<br />
Biosteel TM fibers and innovative spider silk-based products.<br />
Applications span several industries ranging from medical<br />
devices to drug delivery and high-performance textiles.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Venture Capital (MIG Fonds) and private investors (AT Newtec)<br />
Technology<br />
Spider silk proteins are a versatile high-performance material<br />
in medical device coatings, pharmaceutical applications and<br />
technical films or fiber-based products. Spidersilk is made<br />
through modern biotechnology methods. AMSilk provides<br />
spider silk biopolymers, processed inter-stage materials and<br />
final products to licensed partners.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
AMSilk is currently the only <strong>com</strong>pany with an industrial,<br />
biotechnological process for spider silk production and processing.<br />
Spidersilk is a uniquely stable, bio<strong>com</strong>patible<br />
material, copied from nature’s blueprint.<br />
way they show a strong interest in <strong>com</strong>ing into contact<br />
with innovative and flexible young entrepreneurial players.<br />
It is not all about size like in the first days of the industry.<br />
Everybody is looking for accelerating partnerships. Going-<br />
Public offers here an international marketing platform for<br />
quick access and decision, for contacts and impulses.<br />
Company Profile Page<br />
AMSilk 56<br />
ARTES <strong>Biotechnology</strong> 57<br />
Autodisplay Biotech 57<br />
BRAIN 58<br />
DIREVO <strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>Biotechnology</strong> 58<br />
Emcid Biotech 59<br />
Eucodis 59<br />
evocatal 60<br />
Evolva Holding 60<br />
ORGANOBALANCE 61<br />
Sanofi 61<br />
SIRION BIOTECH 62<br />
Wacker Chemie 62<br />
Address<br />
In the IZB<br />
Am Klopferspitz 19<br />
82152 Planegg-Martinsried<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)89 381 564 430 /<br />
+49 (0)89 381 563 859<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@amsilk.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.amsilk.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation<br />
28. October 2008<br />
Dr. Lin Römer (left), Head Research and Development<br />
Axel Leimer, M.B.S., Managing Director
ARTES is a biotech <strong>com</strong>pany ope -<br />
rating in the R&D field for development<br />
of re<strong>com</strong>binant production cell<br />
lines and processes based on microbial<br />
platforms. Proprietary technologies<br />
are applied in reliable processes<br />
for innovative targets used in the<br />
pharmaceutical and fine chemical<br />
industry as well as for <strong>com</strong>petitive<br />
bio-similar products and vaccines.<br />
Autodisplay Biotech GmbH is a<br />
<strong>com</strong>pany <strong>com</strong>mercializing its<br />
proprietary expression platform for<br />
the display of heterologous proteins<br />
or peptides on the surface of E. coli.<br />
This surface display system has<br />
numerous advantages <strong>com</strong>pared to<br />
established surface technologies.<br />
With these advantages Autodisplay<br />
is a new platform technology in<br />
biocatalysis, drug discovery, bioanalytics<br />
and antibody development.<br />
ARTES <strong>Biotechnology</strong> GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Contract R&D for development of re<strong>com</strong>binant production<br />
cell lines and processes used in the field of bio -<br />
pharmaceuticals, VLP based vaccines, enzymes and<br />
biocatalyst processes.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Financed from cash-flow positive business.<br />
Partners<br />
Co-developments with m2p-labs GmbH, bitop AG,<br />
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Q Chip ltd.<br />
R&D projects for international pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical<br />
<strong>com</strong>panies.<br />
Technology<br />
Proprietary technology for expression and secretion in<br />
yeast and bacteria (Hansenula, Arxula, E. coli, Bacillus).<br />
VLP based platform for vaccine development.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Engineering of host cell chaperone constitution targeting<br />
difficult-to-express products in yeast.<br />
Economic production processes based on low-cost raw<br />
materials.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
BioRiver, CliB 2021 , Dechema<br />
Autodisplay Biotech GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Autodisplay Biotech is active in the field of biocatalysis,<br />
drug discovery, bioanalytics (biochips, ELISA) and antibody<br />
development (small protein drugs).<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Private <strong>com</strong>pany funded by venture capital investors (Sirius<br />
Venture, KfW) and several private investors<br />
Partners<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>com</strong>panies (e.g. Boehringer Ingelheim, Brain,<br />
Phytowelt) and academic institutions (e.g. Dechema,<br />
University of Münster)<br />
Technology<br />
The Autodisplay technology is a proprietary expression platform<br />
for the display of heterologous proteins or peptides on<br />
the surface of Escherichia coli (E. coli).<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Autodisplay technology as surface display technology with<br />
numerous advantages <strong>com</strong>pared to established surface<br />
technologies like phage display.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
CLIB 2021, BioRiver<br />
Address<br />
Elisabeth-Selbert-Straße 9<br />
40764 Langenfeld<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)2173 27587-0 /<br />
+49 (0)2173 27597-77<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@artes-biotechnology.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.artes-biotechnology.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
2002/20 employees<br />
Dr. Michael Piontek, Managing Director<br />
Address<br />
Merowingerplatz 1a<br />
40225 Düsseldorf<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)211 99459650<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@autodisplay-biotech.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.autodisplay-biotech.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
May 2008/6 employees<br />
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose, CSO,<br />
Dr. Ruth Maas, CEO, Dr. Gunter Festel, CFO,<br />
Dr. Jürgen Schumacher, Advisory Board Member<br />
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Service<br />
BRAIN AG is one of Europe’s tech no -<br />
logically leading industrial white biotechnology<br />
<strong>com</strong>panies. In strategic<br />
co-operation projects with partners<br />
and customers from the chemical<br />
and pharmaceutical industries as<br />
well as the cosmetics and food indus -<br />
tries, BRAIN AG identifies and develops<br />
innovative products and solu -<br />
tions by harnessing nature’s yet<br />
untapped microbial diversity. Active<br />
product <strong>com</strong>ponents are found in<br />
BRAIN AG’s own “BioArchive”, one of<br />
the most <strong>com</strong>prehensive of its kind.<br />
Pictures: © Thomas Ott, Archiv BRAIN AG (above)<br />
© Kristian Barthen, Archiv BRAIN AG (right)<br />
At Direvo, we focus on the emerging<br />
biomass conversion industry. We<br />
identify bottlenecks and weaknesses<br />
in current industrial processes in<br />
this sector. We develop biologybased<br />
solutions and implement<br />
those for our partners and customers,<br />
which include industrial<br />
<strong>com</strong>panies both large and small.<br />
Our products are newly designed<br />
enzymes and microorganisms of the<br />
highest quality that provide easyto-implement,<br />
cost-effective solu -<br />
tions.<br />
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BRAIN AG<br />
Field of Activity<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> Enzymes and BioCatalysts; BioActive Compounds<br />
for Food and Cosmetics; Producer Strains and Designer<br />
Micro-organisms<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
BRAIN AG is a private and independent research and development<br />
corporation.<br />
Partners<br />
BRAIN’s strategic collaboration partners include: BASF,<br />
Clariant, DSM, Evonik, Degussa, Genencor, Henkel,<br />
Nutrinova, RWE, Sandoz, Bayer Schering, Südzucker and<br />
Symrise, to name but a few<br />
Technology<br />
Metagenome®, ABEL®, LIL®, EvoSolution®, CompActives®,<br />
BioCompActives®, BRAINzyme®<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Access to natures toolbox and its consequent use for<br />
industrial applications.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
BioDeutschland, IWBio, VCI, VBU, BioÖkonomierat, several<br />
Boards of Technical Universities<br />
DIREVO <strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>Biotechnology</strong> GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Direvo deploys its groundbreaking technology platform on<br />
the huge opportunity currently being presented by the<br />
clean energy, clean chemistry and biomass conversion<br />
industries.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Privately owned. Investors include VC funds, banks and family<br />
offices<br />
Partners<br />
Chemical & petrochemical industry, biofuels producers,<br />
agricultural industry<br />
Technology<br />
Direvo's core technologies include molecular biology, genetics,<br />
automation & high-throughput screening to develop tailormade<br />
biological solutions.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Direvo applies its profound expertise in bioengineering to<br />
provide tailor-made, biology-based solutions for partners in<br />
several sectors of the biomass conversion industry.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
BIO, CLIB 2021, BIO River, Cleantec NRW, IWBIO, etc<br />
Address<br />
Darmstädter Str. 34-36<br />
64673 Zwingenberg<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)6251-9331-0<br />
+49 (0)6251-9331-11<br />
E-Mail<br />
public@brain-biotech.de<br />
Web Address<br />
www.brain-biotech.de<br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
1993/99 employees<br />
BRAIN Management Board: Dr. Holger Zinke (left),<br />
Dr. Jürgen Eck<br />
Address<br />
Nattermannallee 1<br />
50829 Cologne<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)221 47448-0 /<br />
+49 (0)221 47448-111<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@direvo.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.direvo.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
2008/Currently 30+ Employees<br />
Dr. Jörg Riesmeier, CEO (top left), Klaudija Milos (top right),<br />
Dr. Albrecht Läufer (below left), Andreas Lischka (below right)
Emcid is developing a platform for<br />
the identification, exploitation and<br />
industrial use of unique natural<br />
products as secondary metabolites<br />
and enzymes from bryophytes,<br />
mosses and other lower plants. The<br />
<strong>com</strong>pany is targeting customers<br />
from fine chemical industry. Within<br />
this market it is focusing on agriculture,<br />
cosmetics and food additives<br />
as interesting sub-segments.<br />
EUCODIS Bioscience is an applicationdriven<br />
enzyme engineering and<br />
manufacturing <strong>com</strong>pany with a<br />
proven track record of providing<br />
customized solutions. The portfolio<br />
<strong>com</strong>prises over 50 enzymes includ -<br />
ing innovative lipases, beta-lactamases,<br />
catalases and others.<br />
Our team works closely with our<br />
customers to better understand<br />
their individual needs providing<br />
various custom protein & enzyme<br />
services, ranging from strain and<br />
process development, production<br />
up-scale and downstream process -<br />
ing to routine protein manu -<br />
facturing up to the kg scale.<br />
Emcid Biotech GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Development of own product candidates;<br />
Contract research services in the area of Emcids core <strong>com</strong>petencies<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Privatly held <strong>com</strong>pany / revenues<br />
Partners<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> and academic partners<br />
Technology<br />
Focus an moss-specific advantages,<br />
Outstanding cultivation expertise,<br />
Know-how in optimizing plant-cell-lines<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
The <strong>com</strong>bination of the biological features of mosses and<br />
the scientific <strong>com</strong>petence and experience of the team puts<br />
Emcid into a unique position.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
CLIB 2021<br />
EUCODIS Bioscience GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
EUCODIS delivers high-performance enzyme solutions for<br />
highly specific applications in biopharma, fine chemicals<br />
and cosmetics industry.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
EUCODIS Bioscience is a private <strong>com</strong>pany, backed up by<br />
institutional venture capital investors, founders, and private<br />
investors.<br />
Partners<br />
EUCODIS has a branch office in Halle, Germany, and representations<br />
in the UK and USA.<br />
Technology<br />
EUCODIS covers the whole spectrum of biocatalytic process<br />
development up to industrial-scale manufacture of enzymes.<br />
We provide our customers with a potent mutagenesis toolbox<br />
which enables effective modification of target enzyme<br />
properties.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
EUCODIS Bioscience is strongly focused on providing customized<br />
solutions and services individually meeting our partners’<br />
needs when it <strong>com</strong>es to manufacturing critical proteins.<br />
Address<br />
Hans-Bunte-Str.19<br />
79108 Freiburg<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)761-881578-440<br />
+49 (0)761-881578-441<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@emcid-biotech.de<br />
Web Address<br />
www.emcid-biotech.de<br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
2009/4 employees<br />
Andreas Kranzusch (left), Managing Director<br />
Dr. Gilbert Gorr, Managing Director<br />
Address<br />
Campus Vienna Biocenter 2<br />
Viehmarktgasse 2a/2OG<br />
1030 Vienna<br />
Austria<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+43 (0)1-8900804<br />
+43 (0)1-8900804-11<br />
E-Mail<br />
office@eucodisbioscience.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.eucodisbioscience.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
2007/22 employees<br />
Thomas Fischer,<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
Dr. Jan Modregger,<br />
Head of Research<br />
and Development<br />
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Service<br />
evocatal is a provider of enzyme technology<br />
and biocatalytical processes.<br />
The <strong>com</strong>pany offers a catalog of readyto-use<br />
enzymes (evozymes) and chiral<br />
building blocks but also offers the<br />
customized development of exclusive<br />
biocatalysts and chemical processes,<br />
tailored to match the unique demands<br />
of our customers. evozymes are<br />
applied in API- and intermediate<br />
synthesis, but also in consumer goods<br />
industries, including the production<br />
and refinement of textiles, adhesives,<br />
detergents, nutrition and cosmetics.<br />
Our enzymes and chiral building<br />
blocks can be provided in every scale.<br />
Pictures: Wiedemeier & Dahmen/evocatal<br />
Evolva is leveraging its cutting edge<br />
fermentation-based technology<br />
platform to develop innovative,<br />
high-value, and massively more<br />
sustainable natural ingredients for<br />
the Nutrition, Consumer Health and<br />
Pharmaceutical industries. Evolva has<br />
operations in Switzerland, Denmark,<br />
India and the USA.<br />
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evocatal GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
evocatal develops innovative solutions for biocatalysis<br />
including a range of catalog products, development and<br />
production services.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Privately held <strong>com</strong>pany, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Sirius Seed<br />
Fonds, Business Angles<br />
Partners<br />
Evonik, RohnerChem, Henkel, Sartorius, Symrise, TU Delft,<br />
Universität Hamburg/TUHH, Heinrich-Heine Universität<br />
Düsseldorf, FZ Jülich, RWTH Aachen, ITB Stuttgart etc.<br />
Technology<br />
Biochemical and molecular engineering techniques.<br />
Production strain development. Processes development for<br />
fermentation and stereoselective synthesis.<br />
Products/Services<br />
evozymes®, evochemicals, evoglow®, Contract research (CRO)<br />
and contract manufacturing (CMO) services.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
evocatal produces highly efficient biocatalysts for chemical<br />
processes, and applies those to synthesize a range of pure<br />
chiral fine chemicals.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
Founding member of German IWBio e.V., CLIB 2021 e.V.,<br />
BioRiver e.V., CleantechNRW<br />
Evolva Holding SA<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Evolva is focusing on select Nutrition, Consumer<br />
Healthcare and Pharma product sectors where market<br />
growth has been constrained by scientific and supply chain<br />
<strong>com</strong>plexities – sectors where <strong>com</strong>mercial success can,<br />
there fore, be achieved through market expansion and is<br />
not dependent upon the usual conquest of incumbents.<br />
In both areas we have partnered projects as well as proprietary<br />
programmes.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Evolva is listed on SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich, ticker symbol<br />
EVE. The <strong>com</strong>pany has a broad, international investor base.<br />
Partners<br />
Evolva is working with BASF, IFF and Roquette to develop<br />
novel, efficient, and sustainable production routes for existing<br />
high-value <strong>com</strong>pounds. We are working with BASF and Roche<br />
to develop novel <strong>com</strong>pounds.<br />
Technology<br />
Proprietary yeast-based fermentation platform. Uniquely<br />
allows Evolva to produce relatively sophisticated ingredients<br />
for consumers and patients.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Fermentation process differentiates Evolva from <strong>com</strong>petition;<br />
tangible product benefits (not <strong>com</strong>modities); technology platform<br />
dramatically lowers COGS; simple supply chains, breadth<br />
and depth of product pipeline create multiple “shots on goal”.<br />
Address<br />
Merowingerplatz 1a<br />
40225 Düsseldorf<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)211 157 6095-0<br />
+49 (0)211 157 6095-9<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@evocatal.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.evocatal.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
August 2006/23 employees<br />
Dr. Christian Leggewie (CSO), Dr. Thorsten Eggert (CEO),<br />
Dr. Michael Puls (CMO)<br />
Address<br />
Duggingerstrasse 23<br />
4153 Reinach<br />
Switzerland<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+41 (0)61 485 20-00<br />
+41 (0)61 485 20-01<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@evolva.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.evolva.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
June 2004/90 employees<br />
Jutta Heim (CSO), Pascal Longchamp (CBO),<br />
Jakob Dynnes Hansen (CFO) and Neil Goldsmith (CEO)
ORGANOBALANCE owns more than<br />
8,000 proprietary yeast and lacto -<br />
bacillus strains and explores this<br />
valuable resource with a set of intelligent<br />
OASSYS® bioassays to develop<br />
new products, e.g. active ingredients.<br />
ORGANOBALANCE furthermore uses<br />
its unique expertise in yeast meta -<br />
bolic engineering to design new<br />
productions strains, for bulk and<br />
fine chemicals and for proteins.<br />
ORGANOBALANCE works in colla -<br />
borations with corporate partners<br />
and grants licenses for product<br />
developments.<br />
Sanofi, a global and diversified<br />
healthcare leader, discovers,<br />
develops and distributes thera -<br />
peutic solutions focused on<br />
patients’ needs. Sanofi has core<br />
strengths in the field of healthcare<br />
with seven growth platforms:<br />
diabetes solutions, human vaccines,<br />
innovative drugs, rare diseases,<br />
consumer healthcare, emerging<br />
markets and animal health.<br />
ORGANOBALANCE GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
ORGANOBALANCE provides research and development<br />
partnership for new products in Food, Feed, Personal Care,<br />
for the pharmaceutical industry and for the production of<br />
fine chemicals.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Privately held <strong>com</strong>pany<br />
Partners<br />
Cooperation partners include BASF, General Mills, Lonza,<br />
Sanofi Pasteur and undisclosed <strong>com</strong>panies.<br />
Technology<br />
Company-owned culture collection; broad bioassay platform<br />
(OASSYS®); yeast metabolic engineering; pilot-scale productions<br />
and process developments<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Patentable natural strains and <strong>com</strong>pounds for new product<br />
developments; yeast production strains for industrial biotechnology<br />
applications<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
DECHEMA e.V.; DIB/VCI; BIO Deutschland; IWBio; International<br />
Probiotic Association; BPI e.V.<br />
Sanofi<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Worldwide network of biotech manufacturing sites for<br />
API’s, sterile medicines and devices. Cell culture technology<br />
& manufacturing. Uniqueness in industrial scale solid<br />
phase synthesis of biomolecules.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Sanofi is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: SAN) and New York<br />
(NYSE: SNY)<br />
Partners<br />
Long tradition in biotech partnerships and cooperations with<br />
enterprises and institutions. Sanofi Biotech is proactively<br />
developing external partnerships to increase its biotechbased<br />
portfolio.<br />
Technology<br />
Lab to industrial scale technologies acc. to cGMPs in up- and<br />
downstream biotech processes, drug product aseptic filling,<br />
analytical technology and others<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Comprehensive insulin/diabetes portfolio, faithful to insulin<br />
tradition since 1923. Frankfurt, Germany, one of the<br />
world’s largest insulin production sites. Genzyme (subsi -<br />
diary), one of the world’s leading biotech <strong>com</strong>panies,<br />
specialized in rare diseases.<br />
Address<br />
Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25<br />
13355 Berlin<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)30 46307-200<br />
+49 (0)30 46307-210<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@organobalance.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.organobalance.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
July 2001/30 employees<br />
Dr. Christine Lang, CEO<br />
Address<br />
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> Affairs, Site Frankfurt<br />
<strong>Biotechnology</strong>, External Partner<br />
Business Coordination, Jan Kloeppel<br />
Industriepark Hoechst, D610<br />
65926 Frankfurt<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)69 305 81368 /<br />
+49 (0)69 305 942 588<br />
E-Mail<br />
Jan.Kloeppel@sanofi.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.sanofi.de<br />
Date of Incorporation<br />
2004/105,000 Employees (Worldwide)<br />
Dr. Uwe Wirth, Vice President Head of <strong>Biotechnology</strong>,<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> Chemistry & <strong>Biotechnology</strong> Affairs<br />
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Service
Service<br />
SIRION BIOTECH specializes in viral<br />
vector platforms and provides<br />
sophisticated in vitro cell modeling.<br />
This enables much improved <strong>com</strong> -<br />
pound and target research for the<br />
drug, the food & cosmetic indus -<br />
tries. In addition, immortalizations<br />
of primary cells to be used as in<br />
vitro models are now easier to<br />
perform. SIRION BIOTECH is able to<br />
construct adenovirus serotype vectors<br />
serving as the basis for novel<br />
future vaccines with much improved<br />
immunity.<br />
WACKER is one of the world’s leading<br />
and most research-intensive chemical<br />
<strong>com</strong>panies. Operating via five<br />
business divisions, our team of<br />
experts and local specialists focuses<br />
on market needs and supports our<br />
customers worldwide in developing<br />
new products. With a 16,300-strong<br />
workforce, 26 production sites in<br />
Europe, Americas and Asia, and over<br />
50 sales offices worldwide, we have<br />
established a strong presence in all<br />
key economic regions and growth<br />
markets.<br />
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SIRION BIOTECH GmbH<br />
Field of Activity<br />
SIRION BIOTECH interacts with preclinical drug and other<br />
<strong>com</strong>pound discovery groups; from fee for service all the<br />
way to milestone and royalty arrangements.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
Creathor Venture, Bayern Kapital, HTGF, KfW<br />
Partners<br />
Sigma, InSphero, leading European Big Pharma<br />
Technology<br />
Patent protected re<strong>com</strong>binant viral vector platform with significant<br />
know how in validating the right shRNA’s for optimal<br />
results<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
Services with more than 30 years of experience are freely<br />
available from fee for service all the way to success based<br />
payments<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
BioDeutschland, German Society for Cell Biology, FORPROJECT<br />
Wacker Chemie AG<br />
Field of Activity<br />
Based on advanced biotech processes, the division WACKER<br />
BIOSOLUTIONS offers tailored and innovative solutions and<br />
products for the life-science sector, especially for the food<br />
and pharma industry. Its biotech-based products include<br />
pharmaceutical proteins, cyclodextrins and fermentationgrade<br />
cysteine.<br />
Ownership Structure and Financing<br />
In November 2005, WACKER converted into a stock corporation<br />
(AG) under German law. In 2006, the <strong>com</strong>pany successfully<br />
launched its IPO.<br />
Technology<br />
– A proprietary ESETEC® E. coli secretion technology for the<br />
production of pharma proteins.<br />
– Metabolic engineering of bacteria for the production of<br />
amino acids, above all L-cysteine.<br />
– Production of cyclodextrins via proprietary CGTase-catalyzed<br />
biotransformation of starch.<br />
Unique Selling Point<br />
– Highly efficient production of pharma proteins, due to the<br />
secretion of correctly folded proteins into the culture supernatant.<br />
– Fermentation-grade, vegetarian L-Cysteine products.<br />
– Sustainable production of all three types of natural cyclodextrins.<br />
Membership in Networks/Associations<br />
Responsible Care®, Global Compact (GC)<br />
Address<br />
Am Klopferspitz 19<br />
82152 Martinsried near Munich<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)89 700 961-999<br />
E-Mail<br />
info@sirion-biotech.de<br />
Web Address<br />
www.sirion-biotech.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
2006/12 employees<br />
Other<br />
Your Cell Competence Center for all<br />
your challenges in cell modelling<br />
Dieter Lingelbach (COO) Dr. Christian Thirion (CTO)<br />
Address<br />
Hanns-Seidl-Platz 4<br />
81737 München<br />
Germany<br />
Telephone/Telefax<br />
+49 (0)89 6279-0<br />
+49 (0)89 6279-1770<br />
E-Mail<br />
info.biosolutions@wacker.<strong>com</strong><br />
Web Address<br />
www.wacker.<strong>com</strong><br />
Date of Incorporation/<br />
Number of Employees<br />
1914/16,314 employees (31/12/2010)<br />
Dr. Gerhard Schmid,<br />
President WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS
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