Oxford BioTherapeutics Appoints Senior Industry Leader to Head its New Clinical Development Operations in Basel
Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) announced the appointment of Dr Esteban Pombo-Villar as Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the OBT group. In this position he will lead the company’s newly created clinical development operations based in Basel, Switzerland. The establishment of a dedicated development operation represents a key milestone in OBT’s global expansion as it progresses its most advanced therapeutic antibody and antibody drug conjugate (ADC) oncology programs into clinical development. Dr Pombo-Villar will also become an executive member of OBT’s Board.
Prior to joining OBT, Dr Pombo-Villar was at Novartis for over 20 years, the last 12 years of which he focused on all aspects of creating and managing alliances. Most recently he was Head of Alliance Management at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (NIBR), responsible for alliances up to proof-of-concept in man. He has a PhD in organic chemistry and completed postdoctoral studies at the ETH in Zurich before joining Sandoz Neuroscience Research in Basel in 1988. At Sandoz he worked on drug discovery projects as well as leading collaborative projects investigating the potential of emerging technologies. Dr Pombo-Villar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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