Chas Bountra
The Power List 2017 – Masters of the Bench
Chas Bountra
Professor of Translational Medicine, Director of Structural Genomics Consortium; Director of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Passion
“I am excited by our goal of discovering and developing new medicines for patients, as well as the opportunity to work with amazing people every day. Pharma is building increasingly porous relations with academia. I am sure this will foster a broader appreciation of the difficulties we face, change the reputation of the industry for the better, and accelerate the development of novel medicines for society. I also hope these new medicines will be more affordable.”
Pivotal moment
“A pivotal moment for me was my move back to Oxford in 2008 because so many things are easier as an academic; for example, you have access to a vast array of clinicians, patient groups, patient biopsies, patient databases, engineers, computational scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and so on.”
