Investors

GIMV

Gimv is a European investment company with nearly 30 years of experience in private equity and venture capital. The company is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels and currently manages around EUR 1.7 billion of assets (including third party funds). Gimv undertakes buyouts and provides growth capital to established companies. Local teams in Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Germany concentrate on these activities. Gimv-XL provides growth financing to larger growth companies in Flanders. Gimv makes venture capital investments in high tech sectors through its specialist teams in Life Sciences, Technology and Cleantech. Its DG Infra+ fund also focuses on infrastructure projects in the Benelux. For growth capital investments in Russia, Gimv has a joint venture with KBC Private Equity. For more information about Gimv, please visit our website: www.gimv.com.

LSP

LSP (Life Sciences Partners) is a leading independent European investment firm, providing financing to private and public life-science companies. Since the late 1980s, LSP's management has invested in a large number of highly innovative enterprises, many of which have grown to become leaders of the global life-science industry. For example, LSP was a founding investor in Crucell, DNage, Qiagen, Rhein Biotech and Pharming. With over EUR 500 million under management and offices in Amsterdam, Munich and Boston, LSP is one of Europe's largest and most experienced specialist lifescience investors. Further information is available at www.lspvc.com.

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) is the venture capital subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. JJDC makes private equity investments in venture funded health care companies. Portfolio companies include those in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics and consumer products. For more info, see www.jjdevcorp.com.

KBC Private Equity and KBC Private Equity Fund Biotech ('Biotech')

KBC Private Equity, the investment company of KBC Group, provides development capital and finances buy-outs to medium-sized companies in Belgium and in Central and Eastern Europe, KBC's home markets, for amounts between €2 and €50 million. Boasting an experienced team of 23 people, it has more than 60 active investments in its portfolio with a market value close to €400 million. KBC Private Equity aims to become one of the leading private equity providers in KBC Group's home markets. Biotech is a closed-end Belgian investment company in liquidation. Incorporated in the first quarter of 2001, Biotech invests in biopharmaceutical companies around the world. During the liquidation process, the company will continue to be listed on Euronext Brussels. Further information is available at www.kbcpe.be and www.kbcam.be/BIOTECH.

MP Healthcare Venture Management Inc. (MPH)

MPH is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative research and development that focuses on biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, therapeutics and diagnostics. MPH is a jointly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and its parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation in Japan. For more information, please visit the company's website www.mp-healthcare.com.

VIB

VIB is a research institution dedicated to conduct frontline research in fields such as angiogenesis, immunology, oncology, neurobiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, plant sciences, protein chemistry, bioinformatics and system biology. VIB has worldwide collaborations with academia and industry and (co-)founded start-ups such as Devgen, CropDesign, Ablynx, Pronota, Actogenix and Solucel. VIB provides 12.000 m2 bio-incubator space to local and international biotech companies. VIB is also actively involved in science communication. Futher information is available at www.vib.be.

Baekeland Fonds II

In 2005 the partners of the Ghent University Association, together with Fortis Private Equity Belgium, KBC Private Equity, Ethias, Volksvermogen and the ARKimedes Fund, established Baekeland Fund II. This fund was created with capital of 11.1 million EUR. Baekeland Fund II wants to invest in different, mainly high tech companies that have grown out of research labs at Ghent University, Hogeschool Gent, Arteveldehogeschool or Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen. As a seed and early stage investment company, Baekeland Fund II invests in the seed phase as well in the following rounds. Baekeland Fund II is operationally managed by UGent TechTransfer, assisted by investment managers from Ghent University, KBC Private Equity and Fortis Private Equity Belgium. For more info, see www.baekelandfonds.be.