Our Therapeutic Innovation team

This is our drug discovery engine, uniting the strength of our network of world-class biology with cutting-edge technology platforms and small molecule and antibody drug discovery expertise. We are a single organisation with multiple sites embedded in leading UK academic and biotech centres.

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Hamish Ryder

Chief Executive Officer, Therapeutic Innovation

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Steve Wedge

Chief Scientific Officer, Therapeutic Innovation

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Rachel Grimley

Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery

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Kevin Doyle

Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry and DMPK

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Stuart Farrow

Vice President of Biosciences

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Neil Jones

Vice President of Portfolio Generation

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Jennifer McKelvie

Vice President of Operations

Our associate directors

Agnes Martin, AD

Agnes Martin

Associate Director, Mechanistic Pharmacology

Nick Tribble, AD

Nick Tribble

Associate Director, Antibody Discovery & Protein Science

Our group leaders and senior principal scientists

Stuart Haynes

Group Leader, Antibody Discovery and Protein Science.

Becky Harris

Group Leader, Biosciences

Craig Mackay

Group Leader, Biosciences

Fredrik Svensson

Group Leader, Computational Chemistry

Hilary Sandig

Group Leader, Biosciences

Vishal Pendharkar

Group Leader, DMPK

David Walter

Group Leader, Functional Genomics Centre

Ian Winfield

Group Leader, Mechanistic Pharmacology

Louise Tonkin

Group Leader, Mechanistic Pharmacology

Susanne Schroeder

Senior Principal Scientist, Mechanistic Pharmacology

Chris Knight

Group Leader, Medicinal Chemistry

Verity Sabin

Group Leader, Medicinal Chemistry

Gillian Farnie

Senior Principal Scientist, Network Translation

Bharath Srinivasan

Senior Principal Scientist, Molecular Sciences

Alex Kalinka

Group Leader, Quantitative Biology

Andrew Turnbull

Group Leader, Structural Biology

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