About Our Sponsors

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation, oncology and infectious disease.

AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. We are committed to seeking scientific innovation from outside of our own laboratories in our areas of strategic interest. We know how to work collaboratively and have a track record in successfully commercialising products through partnerships.

For more information, please visit: www.astrazeneca.com/partnering

Almirall

Aptiv Solutions

Aptiv Solutions is a global biopharmaceutical and medical device development services company that provides an extensive portfolio of innovative services including early development product strategy, adaptive clinical trials, regulatory services, pharmacovigilance, clinical staffing and the operational support for global clinical research. .

Our Translational Sciences team provides early product development support up to phase I/II proof-of-concept clinical studies. We have the project management, preclinical efficacy and safety, CMC, and early clinical experience required to guide clients along the optimal drug, biologic, or device development path from lead optimisation into early phase trials. Additionally, Aptiv Solutions is the only organisation to offer design, simulation and execution of adaptive clinical trials.

Aptiv Solutions has over 850 professionals in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and Australia, and operates out of 29 offices in 17 countries.

Baker & McKenzie

At Baker & McKenzie, we have more than 300 seasoned pharmaceutical and healthcare industry lawyers operating out of a network that spans 42 countries — including 10 of the largest pharmaceutical markets in the world.

Our biotech group offers a strong, growing team of scientifically knowledgeable, business savvy lawyers who concentrate their practice on issues and needs of biotech clients – from research and clinical trial to regulatory review, freedom to operate investigations to patent litigation, alliances to acquisitions, and from private equity and venture capital to public offerings and corporate compliance.

Whether you are a start-up, established biotech leader or a leading research university, we bring a lawyerly business perspective to help you deal with your

strategic and operational concerns. And we do so without spending hours trying to understand your science and technology. Our team includes highly qualified professionals with doctoral degrees in the natural sciences.

For further information visit: www.bakermckenzie.com

Edinburgh BioQuarter

At the heart of Scottish life sciences, Edinburgh BioQuarter is a joint venture between Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc, the NHS, the University of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise. Combining an experienced commercialisation team with three major research institutes, two leading hospitals and world-class imaging and analysis equipment, Edinburgh BioQuarter commercialises novel medical research and brings investors, ideas and companies together at the BioQuarter campus on the outskirts of Edinburgh. www.edinburghbioquarter.com

Merrill DataSite

Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill Corporation (www.merrillcorp.com) is a leading provider of outsourced solutions for complex business communication and information management. Merrill’s services include document and data management, litigation support, language translation services, branded communication programs, fulfillment, imaging and printing. Merrill’s target markets include the legal, financial services, insurance and real estate industries. With more than 5,000 people in over 40 domestic and 22 international locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world’s leading companies.

With its deep roots in transaction and compliance services, Merrill Corporation has a cultural,organization-wide discipline in the management and processing of confidential content, and is the leading provider of virtual data room (VDR) solutions. Merrill DataSite is a secure VDR solution that optimizes the due diligence process by providing a highly efficient and secure method for sharing key business information between multiple parties. Learn more by visiting www.datasite.com/lifesciences.

MIDAS

Over the last decade, Manchester has attracted more biomedical investment than any other English city.

The University of Manchester has amassed 25 Nobel Prizes and is rated as the top UK University in fields including Oncology and Human & Preclinical Biological Sciences, and has enabled Manchester to become a Global Centre of Excellence in Diagnostics

MIDAS can introduce you to global leaders in research, help you recruit highly-qualified staff from our extensive talent pool, help you find your perfect property, and introduce you to the customers, suppliers and partners that will help your company thrive and profit in Manchester.

Manchester is a world-class city which offers people a great place to live, work, visit and critically, a fantastic environment for business. Manchester has a successful community of nearly 300 biomedical companies; its airport and transport infrastructure compete on a global level and it offers a dynamic and sustainable business location.

NovaSecta

NovaSecta is the specialist MidPharma management consulting firm: our focus is small to mid-sized pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Our client work spans Corporate Development, Research & Development, Marketing & Sales, and the integration of all three.

Since 2003 NovaSecta has built a client base of 19 MidPharmas from 11 European companies. This comprises a mix of family owned/controlled, listed, and venture-funded companies.

NovaSecta’s consulting team is based in London. We are wholly dedicated to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, with prior professional experience from pharma, biotech, medical devices, CROs, scientific institutions, venture capital and consulting.

Our consulting style is highly collaborative, bespoke and multi-discipline. We work actively together with our clients as partners. Our case experience includes supporting our clients to grow businesses, redefine focus, reinvigorate R&D, outsource strategically, and expand internationally. Much of our work involves initiating and managing collaborations between our clients and diverse external partners.

Sanova Pharma

Sanova Pharma is a leading Austrian pharmaceutical company which mainly deals in products under license. Sanova Pharma offers a wide range of services including marketing and sales, regulatory and medical affairs, quality management, and logistics services.

Sanova looks for the in-licensing of registered pharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals ready for registration (Austria as CMS, or up-to-date dossier for national registration), late stage development projects (phase IIIb) and/or already marketed products (with high potential). Further we look for the in-licensing of medical devices, food supplements, etc. of high quality, and with up-to-date documentation. Our search is in respect to both Rx and OTC. Sanova especially is interested in the in-licensing of niche products / speciality care products.
We offer to our partners and costumers:
- In-depth knowledge of the Austrian healthcare market
- Professional marketing, sales and distribution services
- Rx sales force
- OTC sales force

Key therapeutic areas in Rx are rheumatism/pain, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology and nephrology. Products in the field of cough&cold, diarrhoe, sleeping disorders, etc. bring Sanova to position No. 4 in the field of self-medication in Austria.
 

S J Berwin

Since the early days of the firm, SJ Berwin’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Group has acted in many of the high profile cases and transactions that have shaped the  industry, both in the UK and Europe.

Today, the Group is recognised as a leading full service practice, providing expertise across the key industry disciplines – Licensing and other Commercial agreements, Competition, Regulatory law, Patents, Brands, Corporate (M&A, investment capital, joint ventures) and Litigation & Dispute Resolution.

Our client base is diverse, ranging from pharmaceutical firms (both originators  and generics), biotechs, medical device manufacturers, providers of healthcare services, financial advisers and private equity institutions.

Members of SJ Berwin’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Group share a passion  and commitment to the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector. Our lawyers participate in key industry groups and conferences and contribute to leading industry journals such as SCRIP Pharma Law. SJ Berwin regularly publishes a Life Sciences Bulletin.

For further information visit: www.sjberwin.com

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing LLP is a leading international law firm advising life science and healthcare businesses, those who fund them and those who work for them.  

Taylor Wessing's extensive Life Sciences and Healthcare Group is a multi-disciplinary group combining lawyers from Taylor Wessing’s intellectual property, corporate, competition, employment and real estate practices. The team includes 15 lawyers with first degrees in life sciences subjects, of whom 5 have PhDs. The size of the team, with its in-depth industry and scientific knowledge, gives us a substantial market advantage. Taylor Wessing has offices in the UK (London and Cambridge), Germany, France, Belgium and Dubai, and associated offices in Alicante, Beijing and Shanghai.