Anthony Ross, Director, Healthcare Group
3i plc

Antony Ross became Director of 3i Cambridge in August 1997 and manages 3i’s Healthcare Team. 3i are a leading investor in Healthcare and supporting businesses from early stage through to IPO. These include Weston Medical, Pharmagene, Morphosys and Inpharmatica. The Healthcare Team comprises over 25 specialist investors working across Europe. Antony joined 3i in 1988 working in the London office and, prior to moving to Cambridge, managed 3i's Newcastle office. He is an Engineer and before joining 3i, he obtained an MBA at the London Business School.

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Dr. Paul Haycock, Director
Apax Partners

Dr Paul Haycock is a Director of Apax Partners, a leading UK venture investment company. Dr Haycock graduated in medicine from London University and completed post-graduate studies at the University of British Columbia. After five years clinical practice in Canada, Dr Haycock moved into pharmaceutical and clinical research with Roussel Uclaf and later obtained a diploma in pharmaceutical medicine and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management. Dr Haycock has over twenty years experience of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in positions including the managing directorships of Duphar Laboratories and Novo-Laboratories UK and senior medical and management positions in Europe and the USA with NovoIndustri A/S and Squibb-Novo Inc. Most recently Dr Haycock was Chief Executive of Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a public biotech company quoted on NASDAQ and the LSE. Dr Haycock has been Chairman of the BioIndustry Association and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.

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Joël Besse, Senior Principal, Life Sciences
Atlas Venture

Joël Besse joined Atlas Venture in 1995. After serving as an auditor at Arthur Andersen and at Crédit Lyonnais in Paris, he began his career in venture capital in 1991 with SED Ventures, a firm specializing in international life sciences investments.

Joël holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Toulouse and graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de I'Aéronautique et de l'Espace.

Board participation includes:
Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, EntoMed SA, Immuno-Designed Molecules SA, Modex Therapeutiques SA, Neurotech SA, Novuspharma Invest NV.

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Prof. Jesper Zeuthen, Managing Director
BankInvest Bio Venture

Jesper Zeuthen has been working for the BankInvest Group as a consultant since 1988, and he decided to join us full time in spring 2000 working primarily with venture capital. Previously, Jesper Zeuthen has worked as Head of R & D at Novo Nordisk and Head of Research at The Danish Cancer Society. He is the author of more than 200 publications in immunology, cell biology and molecular biology and served as adjunct professor of biotechnology at the University of Copenhagen.

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Andy Gearing, CEO
Biocomm International

Dr Andy Gearing arrived in Australia to establish Biocom Services in January 2001 having previously worked in the European biotechnology industry. Dr Gearing has a successful track record in research management in both government and commercial biotechnology organisations. He has managed research and development projects in cytokine biology, immunology, inflammation and neurobiology. He has published over 90 papers, books and patents and organised several international conferences in these areas. Prior to moving to Biocomm, Dr Gearing was responsible for identifying and in-licensing projects into British Biotech’s portfolio, as well as leading teams involved in the out-licensing of British Biotech’s Metalloenzyme technology.

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Otello Stampacchia
Biotech Private Equity Advisors

Born in Italy in 1969, Otello studied genetics in the University of Pavia, Italy, from 1987 till his Master in Genetics in 1991, Magna cum Laude, with a research thesis on plant genetic engineering. He continued his studies till obtaining a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Geneva in 1997. During his academic studies, Otello also developed an interest for Biotechnology Patent Law, with internships at Bird & Bird (London). His academic curriculum was completed by his Ph.D. in Biotechnology granted by the European Union in 1998.

During 1997-1998, Otello worked for Index Securities, Geneva, a merchant banking/venture capital firm, directing their biotechnology practice. Otello then moved to Goldman Sachs in London, where he worked in the Corporate Finance/Mergers and Acquisition practice for health care and biotechnology US and European clients.

Otello joined Lombard Odier in January 2001 as Manager for the Lombard Odier Immunology Fund, focusing on small cap and private biotechnology investments. He left Lombard in December 2001 and is now acting as advisor to several Institutional investors and private companies.

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Dr. Kai-Uwe Bindseil, CEO
BioTop

Dr. Kai-Uwe Bindseil studied chemistry at Georg August University in Göttingen. In 1993, he wrote his doctoral thesis in bioorganic chemistry under the guidance of Prof. A. Zeeck. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Ciba-Geigy AG in Basle, he moved to AnalytiCon in 1994, where he is currently responsible for drug discovery, marketing and business development. As of mid-August he has become CEO of BioTOP.

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Dr David Chiswell BSc PhD, Founder and Former CEO
Cambridge Antibody Technology

David Chiswell was been responsible for the operational management of CAT from its inception. He joined the Board in December 1995 and took the role of Chief Executive Officer in 1996.

Prior to CAT he spent nine years at Amersham International plc where his main responsibilties included product development and research management. David’s research experience was gained at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Virology in Glasgow, the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at UCLA, California and the Department of Tumour Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

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Dr. Eric Tambuyzer, Chairman EuropaBio Board of Management,
Vice Preseident, Corporate Affairs Europe
GENZYME Corporation

Dr. Tambuyzer is Genzyme Corporation’s Vice President Corporate Affairs Europe, and a member of the European Executive Board of Genzyme.
Starting his professional career at Baxter Health Care in 1977, he pursued his career six years later at Innovi NV (Brussels, Belgium). In 1985 he co-founded the biotech company Innogenetics NV (Ghent, Belgium), of which he was general manager until 1992, when he joined Genzyme as Vice President Diagnostics and Genetics Europe.

In October 2000, Dr. Tambuyzer was elected Chairman of the Board of EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, of which he is also founder & Chairman of the Ethics Working Group. Dr. Tambuyzer is a Board Member of the European Platform for Patients’ Organizations, Science & Industry, EPPOSI, and of EBE, the Emerging Biopharmaceuticals Enterprises group, a specialised group within EFPIA, the European Pharmaceutical industry organisation. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the BBA (Belgian Bioindustries Association). He is an adviser to international journals and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Life Sciences Fund of Dresdner Kleinwort Capital.

Dr. Tambuyzer is a bio-engineer and holds a doctoral degree in bio-industrial sciences from the University of Leuven, (KUL), Belgium. A Belgian citizen, born in 1949, he is married and has 3 children.

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Berthold Hackl, Managing Partner
Heidelberg Innovation

Berthold Hackl, Managing Partner, Heidelberg Innovation; molecular biologist, MBA INSEAD. After receiving his diploma, he started as product specialist with a leading biotech systems provider where he advanced to General Manager Europe (Pharmacia Biosensor, now Biacore) and was responsible for the market introduction of a novel biosensor technology. He later gained extensive experience in building and managing health care businesses, among others in the executive management of Stratec Medical (now Synthes-Stratec). His experience also includes holding management and turnaround situations, and the management of the successful public offering (Neuer Markt) of the French biotech company Eurofins Scientific.

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Susan Searle, Managing Director
Imperial College Innovations

Susan Searle is an Oxford educated Chemist. She started her career working for Shell Chemicals and moved to Shell International working as a business and product development manager covering plastics, resins and base chemicals. After 3 years she moved to the Bank Of Nova Scotia where she was appointed marketing manager for gold bullion products where she developed a European client base and secured backing for a new business; gold leasing.

Susan then entered the technology transfer business and spent a year in Australia developing and licensing technologies from the science and engineering faculty at Monash University. She established a network of investors and launched a technology precinct which brought some 700 local companies together.

On her return for the UK she spent several months consulting for Imperial who were not at that stage ready to invest seriously in technology transfer. She joined the Signet group, a retail organisation and held a variety of roles which involved troubleshooting and re-organising parts of the business and acting as an internal consultant. She established an import operation in Italy re-sourcing product direct to supplier and traded gold for the company. She ran a buying team managing stock control, range selection and merchandising.

However, bored of retail products, Susan saw the opportunity to join IMPEL, Imperial’s technology transfer company, in 1994. The team at the time was small, she joined as a senior executive managing science and engineering technologies. IMPEL has now evolved into Imperial College Innovations Ltd and grown to a staff of 23. It has some 53 spin out companies which have been established based on Imperial’s research and some 40 more in the pipeline. IC Innovations has a “hands on” approach to establishing new companies. Susan has been instigative in the development and growth of the organisation including involvement in a number of successful government bids for seed funds and exploitation/incubation platforms.

Susan became Commercial Director of IC Innovations in 1999 and was appointed Managing Director in January 2002.

She currently holds directorships on a number of boards; Casect (gas detection systems), Powerlase (laser systems), Adapative Screening (drug discovery), Nanobiodesign (diagnostics), Holoscan (ultrafast imaging). She was on the board of Turbogenset, Imperial’s leading success which floated in 2000 and realised £10.2m in return for 25% of Imperial’s holding.

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Dr. Tim Cook, Managing Director,
Isis Innovation

After being awarded a doctorate in cryogenic engineering at Oxford, Tim Cook joined the Oxford Instruments Group in 1975. During his 12 years with them, the group’s turnover grew from £1m to £100m. In 1983 Tim was appointed Managing Director of their subsidiary Oxford Analytical Instruments.

After two more Managing Director appointments, Tim set up as a private investor in 1990 and was founding Managing Director of Oxford Semiconductor and Oxford Asymmetry, a spinout from the University of Oxford which was floated in 1998 and was recently sold for over £340 million.

In 1997, Tim Cook was appointed Managing Director of Isis Innovation, the University of Oxford’s technology transfer company. Since then, Isis has recruited 23 staff and negotiated over 75 option and licence agreements. In the last three years, Isis has established 24 new spin-out companies from the University with a current estimated value of £200 million.

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Philip Rattle, Partner
JPMorgan Partners

Philip Rattle has worked in the Venture Capital industry since 1989. Prior to joining JPMP in 1998 he was with 3i plc in London where he invested in Morphosys, Shire, Alliance Medical and Antisoma, amongst others. He is responsible for JPMP's Life Science and Healthcare MBO investments in Europe and sits on the boards of Renovo, Ribotargets, Microscience and Lorantis. He holds a BA (Hons) from Oxford University.

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Yalin Karadogan, Investment Manager
JPMorgan Partners

Mr. Karadogan works in JPMorgan Partners' London office, where he focuses on European Life Sciences & Healthcare. His recent work includes the team's investments in Renovo, Lorantis, RiboTargets, and Microscience. Prior to his move to London in 2000, Mr. Karadogan was with JPMorgan Partners' Life Sciences & Healthcare Infrastructure team in New York, where he worked on the Coulter, Endeavor and Medsite investments. Mr. Karadogan first joined JPMorgan Partners in early 1998 and initially worked in the Octagon Investment Partners team in New York, focusing on high yield bond and leveraged loan investments in the healthcare sector. Previously, Mr. Karadogan worked in Chase Manhattan Bank's Global Trade Finance & Advisory group. Mr. Karadogan holds a B.A. in Mathematics & Economics, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Lafayette College in the USA.

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Stan Yakatan, Chairman
Katan Associates

After 30 years as a successful CEO, entrepreneur,and operational manager, Stan Yakatan has dedicated the last 7 years of his career to sharing his experiences with management teams interested in building technology based companies. His experience as an executive and in several instances serving as CEO with New England Nuclear, EI Dupont, ICN Pharma, New Brunswick Scientific and Biosearch, provided him with management and corporate finance acumen that he enjoys sharing with others. He has founded or co-founded in excess of 15 companies in the United States, Canada, Israel, France and Germany and in many cases served as the initial CEO, and Chairman of these companies. He currently sits on the board of directors of several public and private companies and has advised several of the world's leading venture capital firms including TVM (Germany), Ventana (USA), MSP (USA) and Biocapital (Canada). He has completed and advised on numerous acquisitions and corporate finance transactions raising in excess of $1.0 billion dollars in the public and private capital financing markets. He is a frequent speaker at financial and biotechnology conferences throughout the world speaking on topics including, "Capital Raising for the Technology-Based Start-Up" and "The Need to be Global in the Quest for Capital and Partners". Rick Biondi, Editor of Lab Business Magazine stated," Mr Yakatan is a venture capital raising Guru and it is part of his genetic make up." He currently serves as the strategic advisor to the state government of Victoria, Australia and is the Chairman of Katan Associates International with headquarters in New York City.

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Rachel Maguire, Head of UK Issuer Services
London Stock Exchange

Rachel Maguire is Head of UK Issuer Services and Head of AIM UK. She has worked for the London Stock Exchange for around 4 years, having originally joined as the Regional Manager for the Midlands in 1998 .

Rachel graduated with a combined honours degree in English and German from the University of Birmingham and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Post graduation, she specialised in heavy-duty personal tax planning at the then Coopers & Lybrand and latterly, Deloitte & Touche. The main focus of her work was financial and investment management through to company-focused issues such as remuneration planning (including share schemes) and exit strategies.

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Anthony Warnock-Smith, Partner
Morgan Lewis

Anthony Warnock-Smith, a partner in the London office of Morgan Lewis and the European head of the Life Sciences Practice, focuses on the pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetics, veterinary drug, and foods and food additives industries.

Mr. Warnock-Smith has 25 years of experience in regulatory matters, as well as commercial agreements and transactions. His regulatory experience involves the full range of issues, from clinical trial and product development issues, to marketing and allied reimbursement, product liability and other trade regulation matters. He is also experienced in corporate and commercial transactions, European Union competition law, and strategic partnering.

From 1973 until 1996, Mr. Warnock-Smith worked at Sterling Winthrop (now Sanofi-Synthelabo), rising to vice president of legal services in Europe.

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Dr. Michael Dalrymple, Director
MRC Technology

A PhD molecular biologist and MBA, Michael Dalrymple joined the MRC in 1998 as Director of the MRC Collaborative Centre Scotland having spent eight years at PPL Therapeutics, latterly as head of their ‘product discovery’ function responsible for in-licensing. Re-organisation of MRC technology transfer activities in 2000 saw the formation of a new technology transfer company, Medical Research Council Technology (MRCT), and Michael became Director of the ‘Applied Research’ Division (ARD) of MRCT which has laboratories in Edinburgh and Mill Hill, north London. As Director of ARD, he is responsible for running the two in-house research centres as well as assisting colleagues in developing commercialisation opportunities more widely.

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David Gandy, Senior Managing Director
NASDAQ Europe

David Gandy joined Nasdaq Europe in January 2002 as Senior Managing Director. Prior to Nasdaq he spent 14 years at Reuters Plc. He held executive positions including Global Managing Director of Reuters Information Ltd, responsible for the company’s Equities and Fixed Income business. Prior to that he was Global Managing Director of Strategic and Commercial business, Managing Director of the European Division, and Deputy Managing Director, UK.
Prior to Reuters he held senior positions at SKF in Sweden and executive positions within the Shell/Billiton Group.

He has lived and worked in Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Japan and Scotland. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Birmingham University and an HND in Business and Finance from Glasgow University.

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Dr Juerg Meier, Executive Director
Novartis Venture Fund

Since 1998 Juerg MEIER has been the Executive Director of the Novartis Venture Fund. This life science venture fund helped with CHF 100 Mio plus USD 100 Mio the start-up and spin-off of many companies worldwide. Its portfolio includes at present 110 companies at various stages of development and financing (see www.venturefund.novartis.com). Previously, he was working over 25 years in various international functions of the former company SANDOZ Pharma Ltd.: Head R+D of BIOCHEMIE Ges.m.b.H. in Austria, Head of R+D in the US, Head of R+D Sandoz Pharma worldwide, President of Sandoz Pharma Japan. As a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Jürg Meier supervises three of the 14 new NCCR programs (National Centers of Competence in Research). He is further involved in the Center for Technology Assessment at the Swiss Science and Technology Council and in the Swiss Network for Innovation.

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Dr. Ismail Kola, Vice President, Discovery Research and Global Head: Genomic Sciences and Pharamcogenomics
Pharmacia Corporation, U.S.A.

Ismail Kola was born in 1957 and graduated B.Sc. (University of South Africa); B.Pharm cum laude (Rhodes); and Ph.D. (Med) (Cape Town).

He has authored over 125 publications, many in the most eminent scientific journals and is a named inventor on twelve patents. He is the recipient of several international research prizes.

He was previously: Professor of Human Molecular Genetics, Monash Medical School; Director of the Center for Functional Genomics, Monash; and Member of the International Genomics Advisory Board for SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.

He is currently Vice-President of Research, and Global Head of Genomics for Pharmacia (8th largest global pharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of US$55 billion). He is also a member of: the Research and Leadership Team of Pharmacia, Pharmacia-Washington University Advisory Board, Pharmacia-M.D.Anderson Advisory Board; Chairman of the Joint Steering Committee of the Pharmacia- Karolinska Institute Collaboration, and Co-chair, Pharmacogenomics Operations Team, Pharmacia. He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Washington University (St Louis) and Monash, and on the Board of Directors of Eragen Biosciences.

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Brian Chee, General Partner
Polaris Venture Partners

Brian Chee is a general partner in our Seattle office. He joined Polaris in August 1996. Brian focuses on investment opportunities in medical and information technology.

Experience: Prior to becoming a technology investor, Brian gained significant experience in business operations and leadership.
Brian is a decorated veteran, having served as Captain in the US Army Corps of Engineers. His service included command of 42 combat engineer soldiers during the Gulf War. As platoon leader, Brian was awarded the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor for successfully completing missions while encountering enemy fire on the front lines. He also worked at Baxter International, a world leader delivering medical products and solutions to healthcare professionals.

Boards: Brian represents Polaris on the boards of directors of Circe Biomedical, DSI, eSurg, MedVantx, Noetix, Optobionics, and Sentillion.

Education: Brian holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BS in engineering and economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he made dean's list all four years.

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Dr. Andrew Clark, Director
Reabourne Technology Investment Management Limited

Dr. Andrew Clark jointly founded Reabourne in 1995. He was formerly a Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Analyst with Barings Securities Limited and a Quantative Research Analyst with Smith Newcourt Securities. Prior to entering the finance industry, Dr. Clark was a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University after receiving a PhD from St. Andrew’s University.

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Prof. Graham Boulnois, Venture Partner
Schroder Ventures Life Sciences

Professor Graham Boulnois joined SVLS as a full-time Venture Partner. Before joining SVLS, Graham was senior vice president of Drug Innovation and Approval at Aventis Pharma AG. At Aventis he had global responsibility for lead generation covering Functional Genomics, screening, medical and synthetic chemistry, chemical development and informatics, in addition to R&D portfolio management as part of the senior R&D team. Prior to joining Aventis, Graham spent a number of years at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, latterly as global Vice President and Head of Enabling Science and Technology.

Graham has a BSc in biological science and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Leicester.

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Dr. Silvano Fumero, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Research and Pharmaceutical Development
Serono International S.A.

Dr Silvano Fumero is Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Research & Pharmaceutical Development at the Serono Group in Geneva, since April 1996. Dr Fumero's career started in the 1970's, when he filled a succession of research positions in the fields of biochemistry, steroid receptors, mutagenesis and toxicology. After two years in Brussels at the EEC as toxicologist (DG III Chemical Industry), Dr Fumero was appointed General Manager in 1987 of Istituto di Ricerche Biomediche A. Marxer (RBM) in Ivrea, the first Italian contract research organisation. He became Vice President of LCG Bioscience in London, a division of Serono which is a network of CRO's offering R&D services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He is also contract professor in "Organisation and Planning of R&D", at the University of Turin (Faculty of Science, Biotechnology).

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Frances Bornstein, Deputy Head SWX New Market
SWX Swiss Exchange

Frances Bornstein holds a degree in business management from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Following her studies, she was initially a consultant to the retailing industry. In 1996, she turned to business journalism, working as a television reporter and for an agency specialised in financial market news. She has held the post of Deputy Head of Key Account Issuers and Deputy Head of SWX New Market with the SWX Swiss Exchange since 1998.

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Prof. Roger Ekins MA, PhD, Dsc, FRS,
Head of Department, Molecular Endocrinology
UCL Medical School, UCL

Professor Ekins is internationally recognised as the independent co-originator (with Drs Berson and Yalow) of radioimmunoassay (RIA) and related microanalytical techniques. Widely used to assay hormones and many other biologically-important substances in medical research and diagnosis, introduction of these techniques made a revolutionary impact on medicine, creating the $10 billion immunodiagnostics industry.

In the mid-1980s he conceived of and patented a new generation of ultrasensitive, miniaturised, assays for protein and DNA/RNA measurement based on the use of “microarrays”, this leading, in 1991, to his collaboration with Boehringer Mannheim in the technology’s further development. Though outstandingly successful, the “Microspot®” project was (for legal reasons unrelated to the project’s success or the technology’s commercial prospects) halted in 1998 by Hoffmann-la Roche following its purchase of BM. Meanwhile international interest in microarray technology has exploded, being predicted by US analysts to form the basis of a $40 billion industry within the next decade.

Professor Ekins has received many premier awards in recognition of his work in clinical chemistry, nuclear medicine, and endocrinology, including the IFCC’s Distinguished Clinical Chemist Award, the von Hevesy Foundation’s Georg von Hevesy Gold Medal, the British Nuclear Medicine Society’s Veall medal, the Society for Endocrinology’s Dale Medal, and, most recently, the AACC’s inaugural Edwin F Ullman Award.

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Prof. Stephen K. Smith, Head of Department, Obstetrics & Gynaecology
University of Cambridge

Professor Stephen Smith was appointed Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge in 1988 and he is Head of Service for Women’s Health at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Professor Smith is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a Fellow of the Institute of Biology and a member of many learned societies and editorial board member of numerous international scientific journals. Professor Smith is a leading expert on the subject of angiogenesis in the female reproductive tract and is currently studying the way in which multiple gene expressions regulate vascular structure in the endometrium.

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