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Dr Louis J. Nisbet D.Sc. - Vivanova Ltd

Dr Louis Nisbet

Louis began his career in pharmaceuticals R&D with Roche, Glaxo and SmithKline during which period he achieved international recognition in the discovery of NCEs in infectious diseases. He was one of the UK’s first biotechnology entrepreneu...

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Chief Executive Officer

Paul Smith

An experienced Senior Executive with both General Management and Business Development experience in the pharmaceutical/CRO arena. Paul has an understanding of the drug development process from discovery to clinical research gained through m...

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Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder

Dr Sylviane Boucharens

Sylviane has more than 20 years’ experience in scientific research and drug discovery environment. Sylviane has a track record in building and leading outstanding and productive teams into seamless successful enterprises in start-up and med...

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Director of Chemistry

Dr Angus Morrison

Angus has over 15 years’ experience as a practising medicinal chemist leading both project and medicinal chemistry delivery in multinational and multidisciplinary teams. In his most recent role as Head of Chemistry at the European Screenin...

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Director of Biosciences

Dr Stuart McElroy

With over 15 years working in drug discovery Stuart has extensive experience of developing and trouble-shooting novel screening assays, designing screening cascades, compound screening, hit validation and supporting hit to lead and lead opt...

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Associate Director of In Silico Discovery

Dr Angelo Pugliese

Angelo is a highly experienced computational chemist, project leader and strategic contributor to discovery teams, and has over 15 years’ experience working across different organisations in US and UK. He has a PhD in computational chemistr...

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Associate Director of Chemistry

Dr Duncan McArthur

Duncan is an experienced medicinal chemist having worked in the pharmaceutical and not-for-profit sectors for over 20 years. He has broad scientific expertise in several therapeutic areas, working in both lead finding and lead optimisation...

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Associate Director Biosciences

Dr Brian McFerran

Brian has more than 25 year’s experience in pharmaceutical research & development with over 15 years of those within preclinical drug discovery. He attained his PhD in Molecular Pharmacology from the University of St Andrews before undert...

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Chief Commercial Officer

Dr Mike Piper

Mike is an experienced life sciences professional with a track record in sales and marketing strategy, general management, licensing and contract negotiation. Mike was formerly Head of Sales and Marketing at CXR Biosciences, an investigati...

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Executive Director, Pioneer Group

Dr Glenn Crocker MBE DPhil

Dr Glenn Crocker is Executive Director of Pioneer Group, a company that creates human and planetary health ecosystems through venture building and real estate. With over £1 billion of life science assets under management it is the largest...

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Ian McDonald

Ian is a Chartered Accountant and an experienced Finance Director/Chief Financial Officer with a successful track record gained in SMEs and PLCs in the manufacturing and customer service industries - particularly within life sciences, pharm...

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Chief Scientific Advisor

Dr Phil Jones

Prior to joining BioAscent as Chief Scientific Officer in 2018, Phil had over 30 years medicinal chemistry and drug discovery experience from Roche, Organon, Schering-Plough, Merck and the University of Dundee including senior roles as Exec...

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Board Member

Dr David Milroy

David is a Partner at Maven Capital Partners where he is a member of Maven’s Investment Committee and is responsible for sourcing and executing private equity investments in Scotland as well as technology and life science investments across...

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