Executive Director
pharmaceutical
Amura
United Kingdom
David was appointed Chairman of Amura in October 2005. He has over thirty years experience in the pharmaceutical industry both in research and in senior executive roles. He served with four of the top ten Pharma companies: Zeneca, Pfizer, Glaxo, and most recently with F. Hoffman La-Roche as Global Head of Drug Discovery, Roche Pharma. He has extensive experience of pharmaceutical R&D in all phases from early discovery through clinical trials and has experience of leading research in all major disease areas. Whilst at Pfizer he was named co-inventor on the patent for Viagra, and he led the team that developed Viagra through to proof of concept (clinical efficacy) in man. At Roche, David also served on the committee responsible for clinical drug development and he was a core member of the Business Development Committee responsible for in-licensing of products and for technology agreements and acquisitions. David received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol.
pharmaceutical industry