Chris Edlin

Leicester, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Head of Enterprise Research Partnerships

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

My passion is drug discovery and medicinal chemistry. I have held leadership positions within Sanofi-Aventis, GSK, Roche and the Medical Research Council Technology these have given me the opportunity to contribute to a broad range of medicinal chemistry activities and to develop and enable others to deliver. I have experience of project leadership and have delivered several clinical candidates. I have worked in Inflammation, HIV and infectious diseases and have worked directly on multiple different target types (e.g. GPCRs, kinases and enzymes). At iThemba Pharmaceuticals my role has been to build the chemistry group, manage the internal drug discovery projects, develop the contract me...