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The OBN Awards 2019

Join us and celebrate Innovation and Achievement in the Life Sciences Industry.

2019 marks the 11th Anniversary of the OBN Awards, that’s years of celebration and recognition for the leading lights of the Life Sciences industry.

We are delighted to announce that the awards will once again be taking place in the South and North Writing Schools of the impressive Examination Schools in Oxford. The Examination Schools were created to house the University of Oxford's examinations, and are still used today.

2019 Judging Panel

John Harris, CEO OBN	John Chaddock, Vice President Neurology - Site Head, Ipsen Bioinnovation
Jonathan Rohll, Head of Business Information, OBN	Jon Bircher, Chief Commercial Officer, Cello Health
Bill Fleming, Chief Financial Officer, Ultromics	Jutta Heix, International Advisor, Oslo Cancer Cluster
David Browning, Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Cancer Biomarkers	Peter Hamley, CSO, Samsara Therapeutics
Carlos Pittol, Director, Clubb Capital	Robert Tansley, Investment Director, Cambridge Innovation Capital
Clare Sarvary-Fourrier, SVP Clinical Operations - Europe, Precision for Medicine, Oncology & Rare Disease	Sarah Holland, VP Global Head of Licensing, Lonza
Jason Slingsby, Head of Business Development, Oxford Biomedica	Ian Oliver, Partner, BDO
Sue Charles, Managing Partner, Instinctif Partners	Rebecca Todd, Investment Director, Longwall Venture Partners
Michel de Baar, Executive Director, BD&L Europe, MSD

Event Host

Dr Steve Cross is a geeky comedian and the founder of science comedy night Science Showoff. He has a PhD in molecular biology, but for the sake of science and his sanity moved into a career in making science interesting, questioning and fun. He's worked for Wellcome Collection, UCL the Science Museum and the Centre for Life and is an honorary fellow of the British Science Association.
You can hear him on the wild and weird Chaotic Adequate podcast and see him telling jokes all over the UK and Europe.
Steve is currently working with Nesta on FutureFest, a one-day festival of everything that is yet to come.

Keynote
We are delighted to announce that Sunil Shah, CEO, o2h Ventures will be sharing an inspiring industry update on the night. Sunil co-founded o2h Ventures which involves discovery services collaborations, seeding drug discovery, academic in-licensing and biotechnology incubation.

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