Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Wilhelm Huck

CO-FOUNDER

Professor Huck, formerly at the University of Cambridge, is now in the Institute for Molecules and Materials at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where his research focuses on understanding complex molecular systems with a view to ultimately construct a living cell. His research uses picodroplets as an experimental platform for studying physical aspects of cellular organization and as a tool for high throughput single cell studies. He was a co-founder of Sphere Fluidics.

In 2015 Professor Huck co-founded Cytofind Diagnostics, a company developing a new route for detection and isolation of Circulating Tumour Cells.

Professor Huck is a Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr Tristan Vaughan

VICE PRESIDENT, R&D, ANTIBODY DISCOVERY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING FOR ASTRA-ZENECA

Dr Vaughan is a Vice President, R&D, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering at Astra-Zeneca. He leads a team of 120 scientists, directing the discovery and engineering for around half of the company’s biologics portfolio. Dr Vaughan joined MedImmune (formerly Cambridge Antibody Technology, CAT) in 1993 and previously held a number of roles in the organization, playing a key role in the development of its world-leading platform technology to build the first human antibody libraries of 1010 members.

He was integral to the success of the CAT-AstraZeneca strategic alliance (which preceded AstraZeneca’s acquisition of CAT) and led a number of CAT’s ‘milestone and royalty’ based alliances. He helped to discover Benylsta® and is a key inventor of Humira®. Prior to joining CAT, Dr Vaughan was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Leeds Genetics Department. He has authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals.