Matthew Thomas

Biography

As Head of Department RIA Bioscience Regeneration, his role is to build a vibrant new department focused on lung regeneration, and lead AstraZeneca to targets and technologies which transform the lives of patients whose lung disease puts them in greatest need of help. Having spent more than 16 years in pharmaceutical research, he has experienced in all aspects of drug discovery – from target finding, pathways investigation and pathophysiology to translational pre-clinical systems/biomarkers and the route into patients. his principal motivators lie in the more exploratory aspects of early target research, which reach beyond familiar technology into new concepts in disease biology and novel modalities by which to impact them

Research Interest

pulmonology