Andrew J M Richards

Andrew Richards is an established biotechnology entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience from the UK biotechnology sector in research, drug development, commercial deals and scale-up of companies. He is the Chairman of Congenica Ltd, Abcodia Ltd, Ieso Digital Health Ltd and Closed Loop Medicine Ltd as well as being a director of Owlstone Medical Ltd, Cancer Research Technology Ltd (the commercial board of Cancer Research UK) and The Scale-Up Institute.

He is a council member of the UK Medical Research Council.

Andrew is a Cambridge graduate with a Ph.D. in enzyme chemistry and was a founder of Chiroscience in 1992 and an Executive Director through to the Celltech deal in 1999. Andrew has a track record as a founder, active investor in and director of more than 25 innovative healthcare and life-science companies, including Vectura plc and Arakis Ltd. He has experience as a board director for several public companies, including Chiroscience plc, Vectura plc, IXICO plc and Silence Therapeutics plc.