Michiyo Hirose

Genesis Research & Development Corp. Ltd. operates as a development stage company. Previously, it was a technology investment company that builds a broad therapeutic development platform targeting immune disorders and cancer and a novel single stranded gene silencing technology using the RNAi mechanism. The company was founded by James Douglas Watson in 1994 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Nexvet Australia Pty Ltd. operates as a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops and distributes medicines for companion animals. The firm focuses on transforming the therapeutic market by developing and commercializing novel biologic therapies, including products derived from its PETization technology. PETization is designed to rapidly create monoclonal antibodies that are recognized as “self” by a patient’s immune system. The company was founded by Mark Heffernan, Christopher Nigel Brown and David Gearing in February 2010 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.