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  • KHALID ISLAM, PHD
    Chairman
    Khalid served as chairman and CEO of Gentium S.p.A. (a Nasdaq-listed company; 2009-2014) where he led the transition of the loss-making company to cash-flow positive and profitable. Under his leadership Defitelio (defibrotide) was granted marketing authorization in the EU and the company’s value increased from $25m to $1billion in a cash merger with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, plc. From 1999-2008, he was president and CEO of Arpida AG where he transitioned the early-stage start-up to a SWX-listed company and raised $300M in the IPO and follow-ons. From 1987-1999, he held various positions in HMR & MMD (now Sanofi-Aventis). From 1977-1987, he worked in academia at Imperial College (University of London) and at Milan University, where he was a contract professor. Khalid is a graduate of Chelsea College and received his PhD from Imperial College, University of London. He holds several patents and has published over 85 articles in leading journals. He is also on the editorial board of Current Drug Discovery and Technologies. Khalid is currently the chairman of Fennec (FRX.TO; North Carolina) and a member of the board of directors at Karolinska Development (KDEV.ST; Stockholm), Molmed (MLM.MI; Milan), and OxThera (Stockholm). He has previously been a member of the board of directors at Arpida AG (Basel and DC), Rheoscience AS (Copenhagen), PCovery AS (Copenhagen), Adenium AS (Copenhagen) and C10 Pharma AS (Oslo).
     
    CLAUDE NICAISE, MD
    Independent
    Claude is an established leader in clinical drug development and worldwide regulatory strategy with more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. After graduating in medicine from the Université Libre de Bruxelles he began working for Bristol-Myers Squibb becoming Director of Clinical Cancer Research; Executive Director of Infectious Diseases Clinical Research; Vice-President Worldwide Regulatory Science and Strategy Oncology, Infectious Disease and NeuroScience. During his tenure with BMS, Claude led the development and worldwide registration of compounds such as etoposide, ifosfamide, videx, reyatase, cefepime, tequin, abilify, Erbitux and dasatinib. Subsequently, he joined Alexion as Senior Vice President of Strategic development and Global Regulatory Affair in where he had a leadership role in completing the worldwide registration of Soliris and implementing its life-cycle management. Claude has authored over a hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals or abstracts at international meetings, and is a member of a number of professional societies. Currently, he is board member at Sarepta Therapeutics.
     
    KAREN WAGNER, PHD
    General Partner, Ysios Capital
    Karen is a senior executive and entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Karen is General Partner at Ysios Capital and has a leading role in the investment team and the portfolio. Prior to joining Ysios in 2008, she was a Global Alliance Director for F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland. She joined Roche from GLYCART, a biotech company in the antibody engineering space, which was acquired by Roche in 2005. Karen has also worked as a consultant. In addition to Minoryx, she serves on the Boards of Aelix Therapeutics, Vivet Therapeutics and Galecto. In recent years Karen has also been a board member of Kala (IPO on Nasdaq in 2017), Cardoz and Xeltis. She holds a master’s degree in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Cell Biology.
     
    PABLO CIRONI, PHD
    Director of Life Science Investment Funds, Caixa Capital Risc
    Pablo Cironi is the Director of Life Science Investment Funds at Caixa Capital Risc. He focuses on investment in therapeutics and medical devices. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Medlumics, Aelix Therapeutics, Minoryx Therapeutics, iProteos, Proteodesign and Laboratoris Sanifit. Pablo has more than 12 years of experience in business development, technology transfer and in early stage investment. Pablo graduated in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, and holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Barcelona. From 2005 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard University.
     
    PHILIPPE MONTEYNE, MD PHD
    Partner, Fund+
    Philippe has held senior positions in SmithKline Beecham, GSK and Sanofi. He served as the Head of Global Vaccine Development at GSK for several years, and then served as Senior VP-Head of Development and CMO at GSK Rare Diseases from 2010 to 2012. More recently, he served as Vice President R&D France at Sanofi until early 2015. Philippe is a board director of a number of biotechnology companies in Belgium, France and Spain. He was also visiting Professor of Neurology at the UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain), Brussels. He holds an M.D. degree and Ph.D. in viral immunology, both from the UCL, is a fully trained neurologist, and has also been trained in neuro-immunology at Pasteur Institute in Paris.
     
    DAMIÀ TORMO, PHD
    Managing Partner and co-founder, Columbus Venture Partners
    Damià Tormo has spent the last 20 years working in the biotech industry and has founded several biotech companies including Highlight Therapeutics, Artax Biopharma, Viralgen (adquired by Bayer), Vivet Therapeutics (option by Pfizer), PTS (Adquired by Arcline), Tyris Therapeutics, Recovid (adquired by Vitro) or Radioterapia de Protones. 
    Damia is currently Director of Artax, Highlight, Tyris, Algenex, Aleta, Integra and Syngoi. He has also served on the Boards of Sanifit (adquired by Vifor), Recovid, Viralgen and PTS.
    Moreover, Damia is the President of Fundación Columbus, a non-profit organization that develops advanced therapies for children with cancer and ultra-rare genetic diseases. 
    He holds a PhD in in Immunology and Molecular Genetics from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and has been researcher at Uniklinik Bonn, University of Michigan or the Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO)
    MARC MARTINELL, PHD
    Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
    Marc co-founded Minoryx in 2011 and since then has been taken the CEO role. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona and has 15+ years of experience in drug discovery and development. Prior founding Minoryx, he worked at Crystax Pharmaceuticals and Oryzon Genomics where he managed several research projects and led the team in charge of target selection, structural biology, computational chemistry and hit ID through a fragment-based approach. At Oryzon, Marc actively contributed to the identification of the first-in-class inhibitors for the epigenetic target LSD1 currently in clinical studies. Marc is co-autor of several patents and publications and besides his activities in the technological field always had an entrepreneurial calling.
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