Roberto De Ponti
Helsinn is a privately owned pharmaceutical group with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland, and operating subsidiaries in Ireland and the United States. Helsinn’s business model is focused on the licensing of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and nutritional supplement products in therapeutic niche areas. Helsinn Group in-licenses early-to-late stage new chemical entities, completes their development through the performance of pre-clinical /clinical studies and Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) development, and files and attains their market approvals worldwide. Helsinn’s products are out-licensed to its network of local marketing and commercial partners, selected for their deep in-market knowledge and know-how whom Helsinn assists and supports by providing a full range of product and scientific management services, including commercial, regulatory financial, legal, and medical marketing advice. The active pharmaceutical ingredients and the finished products are manufactured according to the highest quality, safety, and environmental standards at Helsinn’s GMP facilities in Switzerland and Ireland and supplied worldwide to its customers. Further information on Helsinn Group is available at www.helsinn.com.
Helsinn Healthcare SA
Senior Director Business Development & In-LicensingAicha Diba
uniQure is a world-leading gene therapy company. Our lead product, Glybera, received a positive opinion from CHMP in July 2012 and is poised to become the first gene therapy approved in the Western World, capping more than 30 years research in this area.
This positive outcome validates uniQure's AAV platform and, most importantly, the only commercially scalable manufacturing system currently available anywhere.
uniQure's plug-and-play platform offers the opportunity to develop many additional therapies on a platform that is now validated and accepted as safe by regulatory authorities.
uniQure's second programme, for Hemophilia B ($1.5bn market) is in a Phase I/II clinical study and has shown up to 30 months stable, therapeutic expression from a single treatment (NEJM Dec 2011).
Over the coming 6 months further programmes for Porphyria, Parkinson's Disease and Sanfilippo B are expected to enter Phase I/II clinical trials.
uniQure is based in Amsterdam, and backed by Forbion, Gilde, Advent, CAPE and other investors. We would be interested in meeting to discuss potential collaborations and also potential investment opportunities.