Primary Job Title Vice President, Head of Discovery Primary Organization 
ViiV Healthcare
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Currently lead for the ViiV Healthcare discovery organisation, Mark Cockett is responsible for delivering new HIV drug candidates that are aligned to future medical needs into clinical development; and providing research support for clinical development assets as they progress in the clinic.
Mark joined ViiV Healthcare in February this year
with the acquisition of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) HIV pipeline assets. Previously Mark was VP of Discovery Infectious Diseases at BMS (2008-2016), responsible for delivery of antiviral therapeutics into the pipeline. His team at BMS has delivered marketed products targeting HIV, HBV and HCV as well as the pipeline of HIV drugs recently acquired by ViiV Healthcare. Prior to this at BMS Mark was VP, Applied Genomics (2003-2008) and Executive Director, Functional Genomics (2000-2003) and in those roles led a team that supported all therapeutic areas with genomics technologies and bioinformatics.
Before joining BMS, Mark worked for 7 years in the Neuroscience group at Wyeth, ultimately as Director, molecular & cell biology, and for 10 years in the biotech industry for Celltech PLC, where he worked on mammalian gene expression technology and in oncology. Whilst at Celltech he obtained his Ph.D. in collaboration with the Strangeway Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK working on the involvement of matrix metalloproteinases in tumour cell invasion.
