Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Professor of Translational Medicine, University of Oxford

Chas Bountra is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Professor of Translational Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is Director of the Centre for Medicines Discovery in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and Associate Member of the Department of Pharmacology. As the Director of the newly created Centre for Medicines Discovery (mid 2020 – ), he is focused on exploiting novel genomic outputs and generating high quality research tools to enable the discovery of new drug targets (for neuro-degenerative, inflammatory, cardio-metabolic, psychiatric, infectious and rare diseases, and cancers). As Director of SGC-Oxford (2008 – mid 2020), he established a leading research group in human protein structural biology and epigenetics chemical biology, and arguably created one of the most successful open innovation, public-private partnerships in the world.