Annual Global Discovery to Development Innovation Forum Speakers

Alan Whitmore

Chief Scientific Officer

Alan Whitmore is Chief Scientific Officer at e-Therapeutics PLC. He moved from academia into biotech 12 years ago and has worked in both drug delivery and drug discovery. He is a clinician scientist with over 30 years’ experience in cell biology research and clinical medicine in a variety of roles including MRC Fellow, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, Visiting Fellow, The Jackson Laboratory USA, Lecturer & Medical Advisor UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Hon Senior Lecturer UCL School of Pharmacy as well as senior clinical management positions. He gained a BSc (Biology & Computing), and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of London followed by postdoctoral work in Cambridge and medical studies at Oxford leading to the BM BCh in clinical medicine. He was instrumental in defining and developing the conceptual framework on which the network-driven drug discovery approach pioneered at e-Therapeutics is based.