SOSEI - Key Persons

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• President and Owner of Tullgren Consulting Ltd

Anders Tullgren is the President and Owner of Tullgren Consulting Ltd (UK) and currently serves as a consultant/advisor for several private and public biotech and pharmaceutical companies and private equity groups. Anders is currently a Board member of Biotoscana Investments S.A. (Luxembourg), and BrandingScience Ltd (UK). Anders is also the Chairman of the Board of Xbrane Biopharma AB (Sweden). Anders brings over 30 years of global experience from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. Working at Bristol-Myers Squibb from 1996 until 2017, Anders held senior leadership roles in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the Nordic region. From 2014-2017, Anders was the president of the Intercontinental Region (Latin America, China, Middle East, Russia, Central/Eastern Europe and Asia) at Bristol-Myers Squibb. In this capacity, Anders had full responsibility over P&L and operational experience in over 40 countries, 4,000 employees, and a revenue of over 2.5 billion USD. Anders holds a Master in Pharmacy from Uppsala University (Sweden).

Caetano Reis e Sousa obtained a BSc(Hons) in Biology in 1989 from Imperial College, London, and a DPhil in Immunology in 1992 from Oxford. He subsequently trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, USA, with Ron Germain. In 1998, he returned to the UK to set up a research group at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, later to become Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute. In 2015, the London Research Institute was subsumed into The Francis Crick Institute where Caetano Reis e Sousa is currently an Assistant Research Director and Senior Group Leader, leading the Immunobiology Laboratory. He is also Professor of Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College and honorary professor at University College London and King's College London. Caetano's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury. He has helped to define the cells and pathways involved in innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi and dead cells. His scientific contributions have been widely recognised and he is included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers (Thomson Reuters). He won the BD Biosciences Prize of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (2002), the Liliane Bettencourt for Life Sciences Award (2008), the Award for Excellence in Basic/Translational Research from the European Society for Clinical Investigation (2011) and the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2019), Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences (elected 2006), member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO; elected 2006) and was made an Officer of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada by the government of Portugal, his home country, in 2009.

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• Chief Executive Officer
• President
• Representative Director
• Representative Executive Officer
• Representative Executive Officer, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Chris is a membrane protein biochemist working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) who pioneered the use of conformational thermostabilisation for the structure determination of GPCRs. This technology was the foundation of Heptares Therapeutics and Chris was one of the co-founders of the company in 2007. More recently, his lab developed mini-G proteins that have led to structures of GPCRs in the active coupled state by X-ray crystallography and single-particle cryo-EM. Chris was awarded his PhD (1989) by the University of Bristol, after which he worked in the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, before moving to the LMB in 1992. In 2019, he was named as a Honorary Member of The British Biophysical Society (BBS).

Dr. Schoepp has over thirty years of experience in the discovery and development of innovative Neuroscience therapeutics in pharmaceutical industry. This includes 20 years at Eli Lilly as a scientist and leader of Neuroscience research department, and 12 years at Merck as the Neuroscience research therapeutic area leader.

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• External Independent Director

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• Representative Director
• Executive Officer, Vice President, President of Heptares Therapeutics Ltd., and Head of UK R & D

Ed Bullmore MB PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; then in psychiatry at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He moved to Cambridge as Professor of Psychiatry in 1999 and is currently Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, in the University. He is also an honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of R&D in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust. From 2005 to 2019, he worked half-time for GlaxoSmithKline, as VP Experimental Medicine, running the Cambridge Clinical Unit embedded in Addenrbooke's Hospital, then focusing on immuno-psychiatry, as described in his recent book "The Inflamed Mind". He has published more than 500 scientific papers and his work on brain network science and brain imaging has been highly cited. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Academy of Medical Sciences (Treasurer since 2018).

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• Professor

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• Chief Financial Officer
• Executive Officer
• Vice President

John is an experienced scientist and leader with extensive pharmaceutical/biotechnology R&D experience in small molecule- and biologics-based therapeutics for immunological and cardiovascular disorders. John has a strong track record of leading multi-disciplinary global research teams at Vertex, Janssen and Takeda, driving novel therapeutic entities into pre-clinical/clinical development via integrated translational research. John is currently an independent consultant in biotech and pharma. He co-founded Estrellita Pharmaceuticals LLC and is a member of the American Association of Immunologists. John holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol. John joined the Sosei Heptares Scientific Advisory Board in June 2022.

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• CCO
• Chief Compliance Officer
• Executive Officer
• Vice President

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• Head
• Professor

Keith Peters is the former Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the Clinical School in Cambridge where he was a major driver in the formation of the Biomedical Campus. His research focused on the immunology of kidney and blood vessel disease. He has wideranging industrial experience having served on the Board of Medical Advisors of Merck Research Laboratories, chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of Amersham plc, and from 2005-2016 was Senior Consultant in R&D to GSK. Biotech experience includes Celltech, Cambridge Antibody Technology, and Cantab. Keith was elected FRS in 1995, and was a Founder Fellow and second President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was Knighted to 1993 for services to medicine, and made GBE in 2018 for services to the advancement of medical science.

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• Chief Accounting Officer
• Executive Officer
• Vice President

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• External Independent Director

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• External Independent Director

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• External Independent Director

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• Chemistry Consultant

Paul Leeson is a medicinal chemistry consultant with >35 years' experience in major pharmaceutical companies: Smith Kline and French, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Wyeth (USA), AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline. Since 2014 he has advised pharmaceutical companies, start-ups, and academia. At AstraZeneca (1997-2011) Paul was head of medicinal chemistry at the Charnwood site and he led AstraZeneca's Global Chemistry Forum, holding accountability for the company's chemistry strategy. Paul's drug discovery contributions have been in the cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation therapy areas. He has a special interest in compound quality and in 2014 he received the Nauta Award from the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry. Paul has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and holds an honorary professorship at the University of Nottingham.

BS, University of Rochester, in Chemistry with High Distinction, 1973 PhD, Columbia University, in Organic Chemistry, 1978 Fellow, Department Of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979 In 1979, after doctoral studies with Professor Gilbert Stork, Columbia University, and a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Barry Trost, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Peter joined the Medicinal Chemistry Department of ICI Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington, DE. He worked there 31 years, continuing through its spin-off as Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and its merger with Astra Pharmaceuticals to form AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Following his retirement in 2010 he established PhaRmaB LLC as a platform for providing consulting and mentoring in drug discovery and development. Peter has worked at developing treatments to many different diseases, through multiple mechanisms of action, and has had more than 10 compounds advance into development. Early in his career he initiated, and worked on, ICI's leukotriene antagonist project. During this effort he co-invented and helped develop Accolate™, the first leukotriene antagonist to be approved in the US. After developing and out-licensing a back-up, ZD3523, he moved onto inhibitors of human neutrophil elastase. Two compounds from those efforts, ZD8321 and ZD0892, entered clinical development. Since then he has worked on, or led, chemistry teams targeting: neurokinin antagonists, β-estrogen agonists, γ-secretase inhibitors, H3 antagonists, 5-HT1B antagonists and dual NET/DAT reuptake inhibitors. In the area of neurokinin antagonists he led the chemistry teams working on dual NK1/NK2 antagonists for pulmonary disease [ZD6021 and ZD2249] and selective NK1 antagonists for CNS indications [ZD4974]. Towards the end of his time at AstraZeneca, he led the preclinical 5-HT1B-antagonist [AZD3783] and the H3-antagonist [AZD5213] programs. Peter is an author on greater than 200 scientific papers, presentations, and patents. He is active as a consultant, editor, and board member. He currently holds appointments as: Digests Editor, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters; Member, ISC Advisory Panel, Harrington Discovery Institute; and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware. He was the Chair of the 2004 Gordon Research Conference on Med Chem, Chair of the 17th Tetrahedron Symposium [2016], served 6 years on the ACS MEDI executive committee, 8 years as Member and Chair of the Carothers Award Committee of the Delaware Section ACS and 9 years on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Keystone Symposia. At AstraZeneca, in addition to managerial duties, he progressed up the Scientific Ladder to the position of Senior Principal Scientist. After his retirement he was chosen as the "Distinguished Lecturer" for the 2010 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award Symposium. In 2011 he was named to the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame and in 2018 he was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Richard is a molecular biologist and biophysicist who is distinguished for his contributions to protein crystallography. Richard was the first to solve the structure of a protein found in the membrane of a cell. Using X-rays to analyse bacteriorhodopsin, a light-harvesting protein found in tiny microbes, Richard discovered that it was composed of helices. Then, in collaboration with neuroscientist Nigel Urwin, he uncovered the three-dimensional arrangement of the helices within the bacterial membrane by electron microscopy - pioneering the powerful technique's use to study biological molecules. Their model was published in the journal Nature in 1975. Richard has worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1973, and was its Director from 1996-2006. He was a founding scientist of Heptares Therapeutics Ltd, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sosei Group Corporation. His awards include the 1999 Gregori Aminoff Prize, the 1993 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

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• Visiting Professor at NHLI

Roberto is a Visiting Professor at NHLI and chairs the Imperial College Confidence in Concept programme. Roberto is a cell biologist and before joining Imperial he was Vice President and head of Biology in the respiratory therapy area at GSK. He also spent 4 years as CEO of MRCT, the technology transfer arm of the MRC, where he was involved in the commercial translation of MRC research and helped the creation of spinout companies such as Heptares. He has served as an advisor to a number of venture capital companies and is currently a Venture Partner with Brandon Capital Partners, an Australian life sciences venture capital investor. He has served on the board of several biotechnology companies. Roberto obtained a PhD from Nottingham University in 1981 and went on to do two post-docs at the University of Lausanne and the University of Liverpool before joining Glaxo in 1986.

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• External Independent Director

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• Chairman of the Board

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• Representative Director
• Executive Officer, Vice President, Representative Director and President, Sosei Co. Ltd

Job Titles:

• External Independent Director