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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based President operating in the Life Science space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Alun McCarthy
Vice President of C4X Discovery
Alun has over 30 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, including drug discovery & development, genetics and biomarker research. Alun was co-founder and CEO of both Adorial (in 2014) and of PGXIS (in 2007). Former roles at GlaxoSmithKline include Head of Translational Medicine & Genetics for Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Pharmacogenetics, and Medical Strategy Head for CV/Metabolic Diseases. Alun has managed staff on a global basis, and has significant experience of engaging with regulatory authorities in the US, Europe and Japan. He holds a BA (Biochemistry) from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD (Biochemistry) from Trinity College, Dublin.
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About C4X Discovery: C4X Discovery brings a new dimension to drug discovery. Using its unique NMR-based technique to determine 3D molecular.
Martin Watson
Vice President of C4X Discovery
Martin was one of the first employees of the Company, coming from AstraZeneca plc where he had worked for 4 years in the industrial application of NMR to drug discovery. He has a first class masters chemistry degree from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. He has applied NMR techniques across a wide range of drug targets.
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About C4X Discovery: C4X Discovery brings a new dimension to drug discovery. Using its unique NMR-based technique to determine 3D molecular.
Anne Prener
President & CEO of Imbria Pharmaceuticals
Anne brings to Freeline over 25 years of experience in drug development and executive leadership across several therapeutic areas, with special focus on rare diseases and gene therapy. Anne most recently served as the CEO of Gyroscope Therapeutics, a preclinical gene therapy company focusing on ophthalmology, where she continues to serve as a non-executive Member of the Board. From 2014-2016, Anne was VP of Clinical Research Haematology and Global Therapeutic Area Head of Haematology in Baxalta, Boston, USA. In this role, she secured several new product approvals (US and EU). Before this, Anne held a number of senior leadership positions in a broad range of functional areas at Novo Nordisk, Denmark, leading global drug development programmes from research to commercialisation, and bringing several products to market globally. Anne has an MD from Copenhagen University and holds a PhD in Epidemiology.
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About Imbria Pharmaceuticals, Kaleido BioSciences: Imbria Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with locations in San Diego, CA, and Boston, MA.
Paul Lyons
Vice President of Platform Delivery & Co-Founder of PredictImmune
Paul is a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He has over 25 years of experience in molecular and cellular biology including Senior Scientist positions in the Dept. Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Dept. Surgery, University of Oxford and the Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research. His primary research interest is the application of high throughput genomic approaches to better understand the genetic and molecular basis of autoimmune disease.
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About PredictImmune: Providing tools to physicians in the treatment of patients with immune-mediated disease, through prediction of long term clinical prognosis.
Giles Snare
Vice President , Sales Developed Markets of Beckman Coulter
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About Beckman Coulter: Beckman Coulter develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify & automate biomedical testing for lab professionals.
Benjamin T Dake
President & Founder of Aerovate Therapeutics
Ben Dake has 15 years experience as an Entrepreneur, Scientist and Biotech Investor. He founded Aerovate to develop therapies with the potential to meaningfully change the treatment of rare diseases. Informed by his training in diseases of aberrant proliferation he views PAH drug development through a unique lens focusing Aerovate on anti-proliferative therapies that directly address the root cause of disease.
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About Aerovate Therapeutics: Aerovate Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing drugs for rare cardiopulmonary disease.
Robert Zimmer
President & Chief Science Officer of ImmuPharma
Dr. Robert Zimmer was the founder and chief executive officer of both ImmuPharma Switzerland and ImmuPharma France. He is an expert in clinical pharmacology and life cycle management. He was instrumental in developing a substantial number of products for clients including Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott, Searle, Sanofi-Aventis and Lilly. He began his career in Roche’s headquarters in Basle as coordinator of clinical pharmacology and international clinical leader. He subsequently joined Jago Pharma, the drug delivery company, and became a director and head of research and development at SkyePharma after it acquired JAGO. He obtained his MD at Strasbourg Medical School and his PHD at the University of Aix-Marseille.
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About ImmuPharma: ImmuPharma plc is a United Kingdom-based drug discovery and development company. The Company is focused on developing drugs.
Tony Brown
Vice President of Scientific and Corporate Development of Asterand
Tony has been with Asterand Bioscience for 16 years. Prior to taking up his current position, he held a number of senior positions within the company including General Manager for the UK Services business, General Manager for the Detroit-based tissue products business and VP, Strategic Alliances, with responsibility for securing and managing the Company’s human tissue supply collaborations. Tony began his career teaching physiology at Nottingham University Medical School in the UK, after obtaining degrees in engineering, bioengineering and a PhD in physiology. He subsequently joined SmithKline Beecham in 1988, where he headed up the receptor pharmacology group within neurosciences research, and led several drug discovery projects and drug screening programs. Tony joined Pharmagene (now Asterand Bioscience) in 1998. Tony has published on the pharmacology and biochemistry of ion and neurotransmitter transport and on the use of human tissues for research in drug discovery and development.
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About Asterand: Asterand Bioscience is the leading global provider of high quality, well characterized human tissue & human tissue-based research solution.
Nicholas Lakin
Vice President, Advisory Services of Kinapse
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About Kinapse: Kinapse provides advisory, capability building and operational services to the life sciences industries.
