Dr James Legg

Biography

  As VP R&D, James is a member of Crescendo Biologic’s executive team and responsible for managing Crescendo’s Immuno Oncology Portfolio from research through to preclinical development as well as the biology/pharmacology functions. James has 15 years’ experience in biologics drug discovery, mostly in the oncology area and has been responsible for the successful progression of multiple oncology biologics programmes through the research phases of drug discovery. Prior to joining Crescendo, James was a member of the global oncology leadership team at MedImmune, the Biologics arm of AstraZeneca and held key scientific positions at Cambridge Antibody Technology. James has a BSc in Applied Biology from Bath University, a Ph.D in Molecular Cell Biology from Imperial College, London and undertook PostDoctoral research at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Now CRUK) in London.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutics, clinical sciences,biotechnology, biomedical, drug delivery, Health Sciences, Sustainability, testing and inspection , chemical, environmental solutions, biochemistry