Ged Short

Ged has extensive clinical development experience, particularly in rare diseases and gene therapy, as well as an established track record of building and leading successful teams in clinical development and Medical affairs during over 20 years working in companies from big pharma to biotech start up.

Ged qualified in Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, now part of Imperial College, and after 8 years working in the NHS joined Lorex Synthelabo as a medical advisor on cardiovascular and psychiatry. When Sanofi acquired Synthelabo his role focussed on CNS therapeutics. He went on to join Pfizer to lead their UK CNS Medical Affairs team. Following this he joined Novartis UK where he worked on rheumatology and gastroenterology. He next joined global clincal development at Genzyme where he worked on an innovative treatment for hospital acquired infection before leading the global development team for an acute leukaemia medicine. Following the acquisition of Genzyme by Sanofi he led the global clinical development team for Pompe’s disease overseeing clinical development of the second generation Pompe disease ERT. As work completed establishing the phase 3 development plan for the second generation Pompe’s disease ERT he joined Freeline, a gene therapy start-up. During almost five years at Freeline he established the medical, clinical, regulatory, and PV functions led numerous regulatory and advisory board meetings and started two gene therapy clinical programmes in haemophilia B and Fabry’s disease whilst setting the foundations for future programmes.

In addition to his medical degree he has passed the MRCP, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and has an MBA from London Business School.