Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization Isomerase
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Website www.isomerase.co.uk/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Matthew is an experienced drug discovery professional skilled in programme management and intellectual property rights protection. He has particular experience of anti-infective drug discovery and was previously Director of Intellectual Property and Project Management at Biotica Technology Ltd. At Biotica he managed the intellectual property and
collaborative research on internal projects from 2005-2013, with particular therapeutic focus in infectious diseases, inflammation and oncology. In doing so, he was also responsible for segregating internal programmes from collaborative research. Matthew was the project leader of the company's flagship cyclophilin inhibitor program, which was focused on development of a high barrier to resistance backbone therapy for treatment of HCV, HBV and HIV. Matthew joined Biotica in 2003, having been involved with the company since 1999 when he was at the University of Cambridge working on production of novel rapamycin analogues and genetic manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway in Professor Peter Leadlay’s group. Matthew has almost 20 years of experience in actinomycete genetics, is an author or inventor on over 30 patents, patent applications or publications and holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Nottingham.
