Chas bountra biography of william

Chas is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of Oxford, Professor of Translational Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, CSO for the SGC, academic lead for the Dementia Drug Discovery Institute and Professorial Fellow at Keble College.

Prior to coming back to Oxford in , Chas was Vice President and Head of Biology at GlaxoSmithKline.

Chas is an invited expert on several government and charitable research funding bodies, and an advisor for many academic, biotech and pharma drug discovery programmes. In he was voted one of the “top innovators in the industry”, in received the “Rita and John Cornforth Award” from the Royal Society of Chemistry, in and was voted “Master of the Bench” from the Medicine Maker Power List, and in was awarded the “Order of the British Empire” in the New Years Honours List.