Lisa Patel

Lisa is a partner in the LS Team at IP Group and sits on several portfolio groups. With 10 years’ experience at GSK, starting at SB in product lifecycle, and post merger into the CV CEDD where she led programs from target ID to candidate and beyond. Lisa had responsibility for strategic initiatives in 7TMs and NRs and led, and was part of several candidate selections during this time.

Latterly she was in CPDM, reporting to Barbara Weber and then Perry Nisen with responsibility for translational medicine support for programs in the autoimmune/inflammatory and CV space. Lisa joined an IP Group company, Modern Biosciences in 2007, and since 2008 has been its sole employee, leading the development of its main project from lab hit to a recent PoC in RA. The company was rebranded 2 years ago to Istesso and is currently valued at £140m. She has a PhD in molecular Genetics and an MBA.