Dr. Hardman is President and Chief Executive Officer, Oxalis Partners LLC, a strategic consultant to US and EU biotechnology companies and VC Venture Funds and an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, where he currently serves as Vice President and Treasurer of the University of Aberdeen Development Trust and as an advisor to University management. Over the last ten years Dr. Hardman has held senior management roles in several companies, including as president and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, CEO of Medical Research Council (MRC) Technology, senior VP of technology for Enzon, COO at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and president and COO at GeneMedicine, Inc. He previously served as Head of R&D at Ciba-Geigy and played a central role in the integration of the global R&D organization during the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz to form Novartis AG, becoming Head of UK R&D Operations in the merged entity in 1996. Dr. Hardman graduated in Chemistry from the University of London and obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, from the University of Manchester. His postdoctoral training included a 2-year period as Medical Research Council Fellow, and as Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
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