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F-Star Appoints Three Pioneers in Antibody Engineering and Development to its Newly Established Scientific Advisory Board

14 Dec 2007 - f-star announced that it has established a Scientific Advisory Board and has appointed three scientists to form the nucleus of this advisory body. Members of f-star's Scientific Advisory Board include:
 
Professor Sir Ravinder Maini, Imperial College, London, UK
 
Sir Ravinder Maini is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at Imperial College, University of London, UK, and currently a member of the Trust Board of The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London. He is a pioneer in the research and development of anti-TNF therapy, played a vital role in research and clinical development of infliximab (Remicade), and was a non-Executive Director of Domantis, the antibody engineering company founded in 2000 and acquired by GSK in 2006.
 
*Professor Anthony Rees, MIP Technologies AB, Lund, Sweden
 
Anthony Rees is CEO of MIP Technologies AB, a company developing molecularly imprinted polymers. He was previously Scientific Director at the French biotech company Synt:em and before that Head of the School of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK. In 1989, Dr Rees was scientific co-founder of Oxford Molecular plc which marketed antibody modelling software developed by his group at Universities of Oxford and Bath, now available as a web-based modelling service and widely used in antibody engineering.
 
Professor Sir Gregory Winter, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
 
Sir Gregory Winter is Deputy Director of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acids Chemistry. Sir Gregory developed technologies for making human antibodies, and most of the therapeutic antibodies on the market were developed using methods devised by him. He was a founder and Director of Cambridge Antibody Technology, now part of MedImmune, AstraZeneca's biologics business unit. In 2000 he co-founded Domantis, recently acquired by GSK, and acted as Director and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board.