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Stephen joined Sygnature Discovery in January 2016 from Hitgen, where he served as Vice President of Business Development and established several early-stage research collaborations for the Chinese CRO start-up. Before Hitgen, he held business development roles at Pharmacia, Novabiochem, and Protherics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A highly experienced medicinal chemist, Stephen has worked across a broad range of therapeutic areas within both small and large discovery organizations, including MSD, Proteus, Tularik, Amgen, and Vertex, where he led the UK Discovery Chemistry department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen earned a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. He also completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on peptide synthesis methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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