Simon Pimstone
President and Chief Executive Officer
Business Development and Manegement
Xenon Pharmaceuticals
Canada
Biography
Dr. Pimstone has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2003. Since 2012, Dr. Pimstone has been a Consultant Physician at the University of British Columbia Hospital, Cardiology Clinic, and since 2014, he has held the position of Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Division of General Internal Medicine. Currently, Dr. Pimstone is an Investigator at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) research centre. Dr. Pimstone currently serves as chair of Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc., a private specialty pharmaceutical company, where he has served as a director since 2012. Dr. Pimstone also sits on the BC Health Research Strategy Advisory Board of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Dr. Pimstone holds an MBChB from the University of Cape Town, a FRCPC from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in cardiovascular genetics. Dr. Pimstone is a former director of Indel Therapeutics Inc., Cyon Therapeutics Inc. and Enject, Inc. Previously, Dr. Pimstone was director and chair of the Board of Directors of LifeSciences British Columbia, a non-profit industry association that supports the life science community, and a former director of the Providence Healthcare Research Trust, BC Advantage Life Sciences Fund, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, and BIOTECanada.
Research Interest
Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Health Research Strategy and Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics.
