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Leadership Team / Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, PhD
Suresh Lakhani, ACCA
Dr. Rakesh Verma, Msc, PhD
Dr. John Hinks, PhD

Dr Sanjeev Kumar, PhD

A Sainsbury Management Fellow, Dr. Kumar has over 25 years experience encompassing the fields of protein/antibody engineering, immunology and animal models. His research career has involved many fields including cancer, autoimmunity and parasitic infections / malaria. He has held positions in both academia (at the Institute of Cancer Research, and the Universities of Nottingham, Southampton, Yale and London's Imperial and University Colleges) and industry at an LSE-listed biopharmaceutical company. He is the author of more than 75 publications in peer reviewed journals and the inventor on 3 filed patent applications to date. His biography appears in Marquis Who's Who

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Suresh Lakhani, ACCA

Mr. Lakhani has been a Fellow Member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants since August 1994. His current Directorships include the Greenfield Construction Group plc, Greenfield Construction Ltd, India Star Energy Plc, Hermes Consulting Services Ltd, Charnwood Investments Ltd and he is a Senior Partner in SRL Services. His previous Directorships include Silentpoint plc, Wheatley Group of Companies Ltd and Printink Network Ltd. He has served as a Group Finance Director (Wheatley Group of Companies, Nottingham) and as a Group Financial Controller (Fisons Plc, Loughborough).

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Dr Rakesh Verma, Msc, PhD

Dr. Verma gained an MSc with Distinction and a PhD in Immunology from Imperial College London, having previously completed a degree in Veterinary Medicine - which he obtained with Honors and a Gold Medal. With over 10 years experience in the UK biopharmaceutical industry and expertise in immunology, oncology, molecular biology, antibody and protein engineering he has worked as Head of a group in an LSE-listed biopharmaceutical company where he initiated, developed and drove forward concepts and ideas which have now become important development projects for the company's product pipeline.

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Dr John Hinks, PhD

Dr. Hinks gained his Degree in Biochemistry from Brunel University, and a PhD from University College London. At UCL and Welcome he carried out structural and biochemical characterisations of retroviral proteases, and later studied DNA repair enzymes implicated in cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research. He has a diverse experience of the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical industries gained in posts at Xenova Ltd, Serono Diagnostics, ICI Agrochemicals, KBP Europe Ltd and Lilly Industries, and as Biophysics Facilities Manager at the ICR. He is the author of several peer reviewed publications and an invited speaker at national and international meetings on the crystallisation of biomolecules and the automation of protein purification processes.

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