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SUMMARY:Exploiting Cancer's Achilles' Heels
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DESCRIPTION:Entrepreneurial talk on building a precision Oncology Biotech 
 Company and discovery of First-in-Class MLLT targeted protein degrader for
  AML.\n\nDr. John Pollard is a biotech executive with over 25 years-exp
 erience in drug discovery and development and has led teams to identify mu
 ltiple drug candidates and medicines. He is currently CSO of Dark Blue The
 rapeutics\, a precision medicine oncology company based in Oxford\, which 
 recently made headlines as a result of its acquisition by Amgen.  Prior t
 o Dark Blue\, John held senior leadership roles in Bayer\, as VP and Glo
 bal Head of Early Development and Translational Medicine for the Oncology 
 Group\; and at Vertex Pharmaceuticals where he served as VP and Principal 
 Research Fellow at the company’s Oxford site. John is a visiting Profe
 ssor of Drug Discovery at the University and has served on advisory boards
  for multiple organisations including the Diamond Light Source\, Rosalind 
 Franklin Institute and The National Brain Tumor Society.
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LOCATION:MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine - WIMM Seminar roo
 m\, WIMM Seminar room MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Headi
 ngton Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 9DS United Kingdom
SPEAKER:John Pollard PhD (Dark Blue Therapeutics\, Visiting Professor Oxfo
 rd University)
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