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This list showcases the top Oxford based CEO’ operating in the Therapeutics space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
John Beadle
Chief Executive Officer of Psioxus Therapeutics
Dr John Beadle was Entrepreneur in Residence at Imperial College London, where he helped to establish Myotec Therapeutics as a spin-out business. He became CEO of Myotec in late 2008, rapidly securing seed financing followed by a £5.6 million series A funding round from Imperial Innovations and Invesco Perpetual in early 2010. During this time, John was also Executive Chairman and CEO of Hybrid Biosystems, securing further seed financing for this Oxford based start-up. In 2010, John’s leadership of these two private companies led to their combination to form PsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd. John was previously the co-founder of the vaccine company PowderMed. In 2004 he helped to raise £20 million from leading UK and US Venture Capital Funds and was then Chief Medical Officer and board director leading to the trade sale of PowderMed to Pfizer for over US$300 million in 2006. John has previously held roles at PowderJect, Pfizer and Glaxo SmithKline where he was most recently VP of Global Medical Operations. John was trained in Medicine at the University of Witwatersrand and received his MBA with distinction from the London Business School.
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About PowderMed, Psioxus Therapeutics: Psioxus Therapeutics is a cancer gene therapy company delivers medicines of value to patients with cancer.
Dr. Danuta Jeziorska
CEO & Co-Founder of Nucleome Therapeutics
Danuta Jeziorska is the CEO & Co-Founder at Nucleome Therapeutics.
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About Nucleome Therapeutics: Nucleome Therapeutics is decoding the dark matter of the human genome to uncover novel ways to treat diseases
Dr. Danuta Jeziorska
CEO & Co-Founder of Nucleome Therapeutics
Danuta Jeziorska is the CEO & Co-Founder at Nucleome Therapeutics.
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About Nucleome Therapeutics: Nucleome Therapeutics is decoding the dark matter of the human genome to uncover novel ways to treat diseases
Peter Donnelly
Chief Executive Officer of Genomics
Peter Donnelly is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and a founder and director of Genomics plc, a fast-growing company in the genome analytics space. He has played a leading role in many of the major projects and developments at the interface between genetics, healthcare, and clinical medicine, including the HapMap project, the Wellcome Trust Case Control consortia, and WGS500, one of the studies pioneering whole genome sequencing in clinical medicine.
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About Genomics, University of Oxford: Genomics plc aiming to lead the genomic transformation of healthcare.
Marcelo Bravo
Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer of OxVax
Marcelo Bravo is the Executive Chairman & Founder of Oxford Phamascience Group & he attended University of Oxford in 2017.
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About Oxford Phamascience Group, OxVax: OxVax focused on the development of an advanced next-generation dendritic cell vaccine platform for the treatment of solid tumor cancers.
Nick La Thangue
Chief Executive Officer of Argonaut Therapeutics
Nick has extensive experience of cancer drug development and has founded several companies, including Prolifix and Celleron Therapeutics and more recently Oxford Cancer Biomarkers. He has extensive commercial experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Lister Institute and Professorial Fellow at Linacre College Oxford. Nick is Chair of Cancer Biology at the University of Oxford.
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About Argonaut Therapeutics, Celleron Therapeutics: Argonaut Therapeutics is a precision therapeutics company that was established to develop epigenetically-acting drugs which target abnormal.
Charlotte Casebourne
CEO of Theolytics
Charlotte believes in equitable access to effective therapies. In addition to her role with Theolytics, she is a Board Member of the UK BioIndustry Association. She has also been recently named one of In Vivo‘s 30 Rising Leaders in Life Sciences.
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About Theolytics: Theolytics is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing next-generation oncolytic viral therapies.
