Robert Irwin Kamen
Independent non-executive Director
Mr. Robert Irwin Kamen, Ph.D., is an independent non-executive Director of our Company. He also served as a director of Harbour Antibodies from December 2007 to December 2016 prior to the acquisition of Harbour Antibodies by our Group. Dr. Kamen has served as an independent Director on our Board as well as a member of our scientific advisory board since December 2016. He provides our Group with independent consulting and advisory services and is not involved in the day-to-day management of the Group. Dr. Kamen was the head of the transcription laboratory and a principle investigator of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund from 1976 to 1982, after which he served as the senior vice president of scientific affairs at Genetics Institute, Inc. from 1982 to 1989, where he was the overall head of research and development. He then served as the president of the BASF Research Corporation from 1991 to 2000, and the president and unit head of the Abbott Bioresearch Center, where he was also a member of the Abbott Labs executive committee, from 2000 to 2002. Dr. Kamen served as an executive in residence at Oxford Bioscience Partners, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to 2008. He has served as a venture partner at Third Rock Ventures since 2010. Dr. Kamen has served as a director of the following listed companies:
• Jounce Therapeutics (NASDAQ:JNCE), since June 2013;
and • Neon Therapeutics (which was formerly NASDAQ-listed with ticker symbol NTGN and subsequently acquired by Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (NASDAQ:BNTX), in May 2020), since October 2015.
Dr. Kamen received his bachelor’s degree of arts in biophysics from Amherst College in the United States in 1965 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1970. He has also been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1976.