Birgit Kjældgaard Giwercman

BKG Pharma ApS develops and commercializes novel antibiotics against multidrug-resistant bacteria. It conducts research and development on treatment for multi-resistant infections such as resistance to chemotherapy. The company was founded by Birgit K. Giwercman in 2004 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Pantheco A/S is a Danish biotech company, whose mission it is to develop drugs based upon Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) for the treatment of infectious diseases caused by resistant microorganisms. Pantheco represents a spin-off of the research activities and know-how within the Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) antisense technology invented at University of Copenhagen in 1992 and the PNA Patent Rights licensed from Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in US. By employing the PNA technology, chemistry, know-how, and the exclusive rights for human therapeutic uses within anti-infectives, Pantheco has the unique opportunity to generate novel classes of anti-infective drugs and become a world class leader within novel generations of antisense therapeutics.

Cureon A/S is a Danish biotech company that owns the pharmaceutical rights to a novel DNA analogue, termed LNA (Locked Nucleic Acid) which displays unprecedented affinity compared to all other DNA chemistries. The company believes that the unique properties of this novel analogue will enable oligonucleotide based therapeutics (Antisense therapy) to enter main-stream pharmaceuticals.