Jon is a biochemist and cell biologist with 20 years of operational and scientific leadership experience in industry, mostly in oncology. Jon is an Operating Partner at Advent Life Sciences and is a co-founder of Epitopea and also the remyelination start-up Pheno Therapeutics.

Prior to joining Advent, Jon served as CSO of gene editing tools and services company, Horizon Discovery, and Head of Biology at Vernalis Research. At both organisations his focus was on leading drug discovery projects, early-stage discovery collaborations and in and out-licensing key technologies.

Jon also has extensive postdoctoral experience working with Tim Hunt at Cancer Research UK and Sally Kornbluth at Duke University. He holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Steven brings over 20 years of business development experience in industry and non-profit organisations across a variety of fields, including oncology, vaccines, and CNS-related indications.

Steven previously held several business development leadership roles, where he successfully negotiated numerous strategic transactions and managed alliances with a wide range of biopharmaceutical companies, including BMS, Ipsen, Abbvie, Merck, Pfizer, Roche, Nippon Shinyaku, Grunenthal, AstraZeneca, Domain Therapeutics, and Medigene.

Steven holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from McGill University, and an MBA from Queen’s University.

Trained as a hematologist and an immunogeneticist, Claude has been a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of Université de Montréal since 2005 and is in charge of its immunobiology research laboratory.

He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal and was a practicing clinician until 2018, at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, where he created the histocompatibility laboratory and founded the bone marrow transplant unit.

Member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Claude has received the Acfas Léo-Pariseau prize (2011), the Michel-Sarrazin Award (2015) of the Club de recherches cliniques du Québec and the Bernhard Cinader Award of the Canadian Society for Immunology (2017).

Pierre began his career with the National Research Council of Canada as a protein chemistry Investigator. Between 2001 and 2004, he operated the Protein Analysis Department at Caprion Pharmaceuticals.

He then joined the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of Université de Montréal where he operates the Proteomics Research Unit and the Center for Advanced Proteomics and Chemogenomics Analyses (CAPCA).

Pierre is also a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and an Accredited Member of the Department of Biochemistry of the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal.