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Steve has over 30 years’ experience in the biotech and drug discovery CRO industry. Most recently Steve was Executive Vice President, Strategic Alliance Management at Evotec having progressed from Department Head in Medicinal Chemistry through to SVP Drug Discovery where he led many research programmes in collaboration with Pharma and Biotech. Prior to Evotec, Steve was at Oxford GlycoSciences where he was a Group Leader in Medicinal Chemistry. Steve has extensive experience in drug discovery and has led multiple programmes resulting in the identification of more than 20 pre-clinical candidates with several progressing into clinical trials. Steve gained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) in the antibacterial area and followed this with postdoctoral research positions at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) and the University of Portsmouth (UK) working in natural product synthesis and cancer research.

Mr Steve Courtney's Session:

• Medical Technology Accelerators Symposium
  Date: 20 Sep 2025, Saturday | Time: 1115—1245 | Venue: Level 2, L2-S2