Matt Tozer - Director of Medicinal Chemistry Services

Matt worked for 7 years as Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Medivir, where he was instrumental in establishing a research strategy that delivered a number of robust development compounds into the company's pipeline.

He also played a major role in brokering and managing a number of collaborations with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. While there he directed work on a variety of protease and anti-viral programmes leading to compounds that have moved into clinical development.

Matt has a 1st class honours degree and a PhD from Imperial College London, where he worked with Professor William Motherwell. His post-doctoral research was at the Australian National University with Professor Athel Beckwith and then at Oxford University with Professor Sir Jack Baldwin. Following on from these studies, Matt worked for 7 years at the James Black Foundation, specialising in drugs that modulated G-protein coupled receptors.