Axel Hoos

Dr. Axel Hoos is a distinguished physician-scientist, executive, entrepreneur, and leader who was appointed as CEO of Scorpion Therapeutics in August 2021. Prior to Scorpion, he served as Senior Vice President, R&D Governance Chair, and Therapeutic Area Head for Oncology at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK). In that role, Dr. Hoos was responsible for technical and funding decisions and re-built the Oncology business after GSK’s 2015 divestment of Oncology products to Novartis, across all therapeutic modalities in the focus areas of immuno-oncology, synthetic lethality, tumor cell targeting, epigenetics, and cell & gene therapy.

Dr. Hoos is recognized as an Immuno-Oncology pioneer for his work on the development of the anti-CTLA-4 antibody ipilimumab, the first FDA-approved checkpoint immunotherapy, and the creation of a new development paradigm for cancer immunotherapies, which launched the field of Immuno-Oncology.