Announcing the appointment, the Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Professor Fran Platt, said, “Jon is a perfect fit with our aspirations as a department, to form meaningful partnerships with industry to build on our fundamental research and to maximise translation of our discoveries.”
Jon has extensive international financial, life sciences and governance experience. In July 2021, Jon co-chaired with Professor Sir John Bell the preparation of the UK Life Science Vision, which sets out a strategy for UK life sciences in the post-Covid world and seeks to capitalise on many of the UK’s scientific successes through the pandemic.
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