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Leadership

Core Team

Prof. K. Michael Spyer, PhD, Chairman

Former Chair of National Health Service London

Former Vice-Provost for Biomedicine and former Vice-Provost for Enterprise at the University College London

Dr. Everard Mascarenhas, PhD, MBA

CEO

Over 25 years experience commercialising early-stage technologies;

served as the CEO of three start-ups, guiding them from concept to profitability.

Prof. Alexander Gourine, PhD, Founder & CSO

Professor of Physiology; Director of the Research Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience at the University College London

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Dr. Andrey Gourine, MD, PhD

Founder & CMO

Cardiologist with extensive expertise in cardiovascular research,  Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Formerly led the Cardiovascular Drug Discovery program at Servier Pharma.

Tim O'Connell

CFO

Qualified ACA, expert in licensing and international distribution contracts

Our Advisors

Prof. Per-Ove Sjoqust, PhD

Prof. Emeritus, Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; 25+ years of executive level experience in the pharmaceutical industry; Former chief of Cardiovascular Pharmacology Department at AstraZeneca

Prof. Julian FR Paton, PhD, FRSNZ

Professor of Translational Physiology and Director of The Heart Research Centre (Auckland, NZ); world leading authority in the mechanisms of hypertension

Dr. George Zajicek, PhD

Regulatory expert, George Zajicek (ex-Director of Regulatory Affairs at Boehringer Ingelheim and  Unipath and Marketing Director, Axis-Shield) has taken several pharmaceutical and device-based treatments through the CE and FDA approval processes

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