BioLeaders

Peter Pack BioLeaders Interview – Peter Pack (October 2019) Trained as a Chemist and Molecular Biologist, I have been CEO for several companies over the past 20 years, helping to start, build and exit life science companies in Germany and the UK. I have worked in the biotech industry since 1992 when I started as one of the first employees of Morphosys which was founded by my PhD mentor Andreas Pluecktun and Simon Moroney (who came from the UK) in that year. I recently stepped down as CEO of Crescendo Biologics in Cambridge, where I lived and worked for [...]

Ros Deegan BioLeaders Interview – Ros Deegan (October 2019) CEO OMass Therapeutics in Oxford. Has lived in Belgium, France, US and UK. Studied at Cambridge University and INSEAD. Likes to explore both the physical world with her husband, and the scientific world with her company. Key milestones in your career journey to date? Moving into the biotech world in 2008, travelling between countries – working in the US in 1999 and again 2006 – 2019; first SVP role and IPO at Trevena in 2013/14; first CEO role at OMass in 2019. Who has had the greatest influence over your [...]

David Roblin BioLeaders Interview – David Roblin (October 2019) President of R&D and COO of Summit Therapeutics PLC, Chair of Scientific Translation at The Crick, NED at SoseiHeptares PLC, various grant committees at Wellcome and LEO Foundation; age 53; married with 3 children; Welshman of Kent; education: comprehensively near Swansea, then UCL and St George’s; Hobbies: travelling extensively with my family – Namibia in 2019. Key milestones in your career journey to date? Leaving the land of my fathers (Wales) in 1985; meeting my wife, Sally, at medical school in 1987; my career went from bedside to bench and [...]