Our Team

Bill brings a breadth of experiences in a variety of positions within the life science/biotech industry, including time as a consultant, a bench scientist and 12 years with Life Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Thermo-Fisher), working in various senior level licensing, business management, manufacturing and research roles.

Bill received a Master of Arts in Molecular Biology from SUNY at Buffalo and a Master of Science in Business Management from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Pelletier joined Barinthus Biotherapeutics as CSO at the beginning of 2023, leading Barinthus Biotherapeutics’s scientific teams in all phases of drug discovery and platform development, as well as building and overseeing the strategic technical direction of the company.

His R&D portfolio includes successful clinical trial programs that resulted in the development of novel agents: mycophenolate mofetil (transplantation), rituximab (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), gemtuzumab ozogamycin (Leukemia), and lipid complex amphotericin B (serious fungal infections). He has held senior management positions at Roche and UCB Celltech and has subsequently been a CMO of several biotechnology companies. He joins Barinthus Bio from ISA Pharmaceuticals, a specialist immune-oncology company.

Dr. Hooftman holds a MD from Utrecht State University (Netherlands) and performed his specialist training in Cambridge and London (UK). Dr Hooftman joined Barinthus Bio as CMO at the beginning of June 2024.

Graham qualified as a solicitor in London in 2005, before moving to co-found technology company MET, which was subsequently sold to a group of private investors. He was an investment fund manager at Matrix Securities and then worked for 9 years as an operator and investor to develop a portfolio of life sciences companies held by Animatrix Capital LLP. Graham’s focus has been on operating and developing early stage products and companies targeting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. One of these was Agalimmune, where Graham led the licensing, funding and development of a novel cancer immunotherapy and played a lead role in the company’s successful sale to NASDAQ-listed BioLineRx in 2017. Graham holds a BA Hons degree in Law with French from Newcastle University.

Robin joined Pharming from Sweden-based Karolinska Development AB (publ.) (KDEV: SS), where he was CFO and Head of Business Development. Mr. Wright was CFO and Head of Business Development at Orexo AB (publ.) (ORX: SS) in Sweden prior to this. Before going to Sweden, he worked in private equity and corporate finance advisory roles, including long periods at Citibank Salomon Smith Barney and Barclays de Zoete Wedd. Mr. Wright holds a BA degree in Chemistry from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in the UK.

Karen is President and founder of Knowledgeable Decisions, LLC, a biopharma pharmaceutical consulting firm focusing on development and commercial/corporate strategy. She previously served as Business Group Head for Bayer Corporation’s U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group, Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Marketing for Wyeth LLC, and Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer for Genetics Institute, Inc.. Karen began her pharmaceutical career at Pfizer, Inc. where she held numerous positions including Vice President, Marketing for the Pratt Division. She is Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Repligen Corporation and serves as a Board Director for Medicenna Therapeutics, PaxMedica Therapeutics, and Medicines 360. She received her M.B.A. from Harvard University and her B.A. and M.A. in English from Simmons College.

Pierre has over 30 years of experience in the global life science industry, especially with specialty care, vaccines and immunotherapy, at the helm of international operations, in C-level positions at global level in multinational corporations and as CEO of start-up companies. He is a lecturer in several MBA programs and in life science conferences, and at the Mass Challenge incubator in Switzerland where he is also a mentor for start-up life sciences companies. He holds a Doctorate of Pharmacy, a Master in Business Law and an MBA. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD and IMD.

Prior to joining C-Path, Dr. Scheeren served in various senior roles at Bayer AG, a global pharmaceutical company, including serving as Senior Vice President, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, bringing a significant number of novel products to the global market in various therapeutic areas. Dr. Scheeren held numerous executive positions, including at Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Roussel UCLAF, The Ares-Serono Group and Les Laboratoires Servier. He is the current Chairman of the Fellows of the Drug Information Association and serves on several non-profit boards of directors. Dr. Scheeren is a lecturer at Yale University and an adjunct Professor at Peking University. He is also a member of the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the “Academie Nationale de Pharmacie” in France. Dr. Scheeren received a Pharm.D. from the University of Leiden.

He heads a leading malaria vaccine development programme and also regularly consults nationally on pandemic threats. His group led the first clinical vaccine trial against the Ebola virus outbreak strain in the major West African emergency in 2014. Professor Hill’s immunogenetics programme focuses on genome-wide and exome-wide association studies of bacterial diseases, particularly tuberculosis and pneumococcal disease, in African and European populations.

She is an acknowledged expert in the preclinical and clinical development of viral vectored vaccines. Professor Gilbert’s chief research interest is the development of vaccines that work by inducing strong and protective T cell responses, in addition to working on the development of the viral vector platform technology and its application in rapid vaccine development for emerging pathogens.

He treats cancers of the prostate, kidney, bladder, germ cell tumours and breast cancer. Dr Tuthill qualified from University College London (University of London) in 2002. He was awarded BSc Honours (Immunology and Cell Pathology, University College London) in 2001. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2005. He trained in Medical Oncology in London at the Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He graduated with a post graduate diploma in Oncology from the Institute of Cancer Research in 2009. He was awarded a MRC Clinical Research Fellowship (2009) and studied for PhD in tumour immunology (2014) at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Imperial College (London). He was appointed Consultant Medical Oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2015.