Eddy Littler

Eddy is an expert virologist with a career spanning over 40 years in both academia and industry. He has held senior positions in both the Wellcome Research Laboratories and GlaxoWellcome. In 2000 Eddy left GlaxoWellcome to joining his first biotech company becoming Senior Director at Medivir AB where he led the UK site and also Lead Discovery in both Sweden and the UK. At Medivir he was part of several outlicensing deals with a total value of over $360m. He led the team that developed Olysio which was licensed to Janssen for the treatment of hepatitis C virus which had peak sales of over $10B.