Background

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Co-founder & CEO

Jonathan Ward has more than 20 years experience in preclinical R&D and toxicology testing. Jonathan was the COO at PWG Genetics (preclinical  CRO) and Bioresearch Manager and Principal Scientist at Philip Morris International (leading toxicology studies as Test Facility Manager).

Co-founder

Prof. Jaya Krishnan has more than 20 years experience in preclinical models and cardiovascular disease research. He completed his PhD at Imperial  College London and led research at the ETH-Zurich, Medical Research Council UK and Imperial College London. He currently leads an RNA Therapeutics group in Germany.

Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Maria Duda joins Genome Biologics from Management Consulting company ZS Associates where she assessed and developed strategies in the area of  key account management and launch planning for top pharmaceutical clients. Prior to career in Management Consulting, Maria led a multi-disciplinary project at Medical Research Council UK aimed at  understanding the mechanical underpinnings of disease. Maria received her scientific training from ETH Zurich, where she obtained her PhD in novel therapeutic approaches for kidney cancer.

Head of Research and Drug Discovery 

Dr. Ting Yuan has more than 10 years experience in pre-clinical models and metabolic disease research. She completed her PhD at University of Bremen. Ting led multiple research projects at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. She worked on signal transduction pathways, metabolic and inflammatory disease models, and has published numerous papers in prestigious scientific journals. 

CEO: AtumRa Therapeutics

Senior Fellow: A*STAR

Drug Development Expert

Alex Matter was CEO of the Experimental Therapeutics Centre and previously CEO of the D3 A*STAR platform. Prior to his move to A*STAR, he was Director of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), Global Head of Oncology Research for Novartis and Global Head of Oncology at Roche. Dr. Matter was fundamental in the development of Imatinib/Gleevec/Glivec® and Nilotinib/Tasigna®, Panobinostat/Faridak®, Midostaurin/Rydapt® and Reyataz®. Dr. Matter is the recipient of the Life-time Achievement Award from IBC Life Sciences, the Warren-Alpert prize, the AACR-Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award and the Szent-Györgyi  Prize.

Director (Asia Pacific): ICON Clinical Research 

Clinical Trials Expert

Jean-Paul  Desylpere received his medical degree from the University of Gent in Belgium in 1977. He was director of the Endocrine Lab at the University and also Head of the Metabolic and Lipid Disorder Clinic of the University Hospital. In 1992, he was appointed Professor of Endocrinology and Research Director at the NFSR. Dr. Deslypere left the University in 1997 and started working for the clinical trial industry, first as Director International Operations of a central lab (BARC) and subsequently as Regional Director Asia Pacific for ICON Clinical Research based in Singapore. 

Professor of Metabolism: Cambridge University

Scientific Director: Cambridge Phenomics 

Metabolic Disease Expert

Tony Vidal-Puig is Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at  Cambridge University. His is Principal Investigator at the Medical  Research Council Metabolic Disease Unit and at the Wellcome trust Sanger Institute, and serves as Scientific Director of the Cambridge Phenomics Centre, a state-of-the-art centre that applies multidisciplinary approaches to murine metabolic and cardiometabolic phenotyping. He is also a Consultant Endocrinologist in Metabolic Medicine at Addenbrooke’s  Hospital.

Professor for Microvascular Pathobiology: University of Heidelberg 

Cancer Expert 

Jonathan  Sleeman is Franz-Volhard Professor for Microvascular Biology and Pathobiology at the University of Heidelberg. The Sleeman lab is part of the Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim. Prof. Sleeman is also associated with KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).  He led the EU-funded Framework Programme 7 Collaborative Project TuMIC  (Tumor Metastasis Integrated Concept), and was coordinator of the EU-funded Framework Programme 6 STREP project BRECOSM (Identification of  Molecular Pathways that regulate the organ-specific metastasis of breast cancer).