John Ridley

John has a dual role at Metrion that involves business development activities and performing electrophysiology studies in the lab. He has 10 years’ experience working in ion channel drug discovery. This experience was obtained firstly as a Senior Scientist at Xention, where he was involved in the discovery of ion channel blockers for atrial fibrillation, neuropathic pain and autoimmune diseases, and then as the Business Development Manager at Xention. John is also the Business Development Director for Cambridge Animal Health, which is a company that is dedicated to developing a non-surgical technology to neuter cats and dogs of both sexes. Additionally, he co-founded Inovion Pharma, which is focused on finding therapies for rare disease channelopathies. John holds a PhD in cardiac electrophysiology from the University of Bristol and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge.