Investors

Major investors: Alafi Capital Company, Assension Health Ventures, LLC, Life Science Partners, Mid-America Transplant Services and Zimmer.

	Alafi Capital is a private venture capital firm that has been active in healthcare investing for over 25 years. Early and mid-stage investments in the U.S. and Europe are considered, with emphasis on product-oriented biotechnology, life science technologies, imaging and diagnostics, and medical devices.

	Ascension Health Ventures was established in 2001 by Ascension Health with a commitment of $125 million to invest in expansion- to late-stage healthcare companies. Ascension Health is the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system serving patients through a network of hospitals and health facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia. AHV offers its limited partners the ability to earn venture-level financial returns while providing early insight to future healthcare developments.

	LSP (Life Sciences Partners) is a leading independent European venture capital firm, providing private equity financing to early- to mid-stage 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 EUR 400 million under management and offices in Amsterdam, Munich and Boston, LSP is one of Europe's largest and most experienced specialist life-science investors.

	Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS) is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of human life. MTS coordinates the procurement of vital organs, tissues and eyes in hospitals throughout eastern and southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and northeastern Arkansas.

	Zimmer, Inc., Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, Zimmer is the worldwide #1 pure-play orthopedic leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing reconstructive and spinal implants, trauma and related orthopedic surgical products.