Dr Jonathan Knowles

Biography

Dr Jonathan Knowles has been a Non-Executive Director of Immunocore since 2010 and became Executive Chairman in November 2013. He was formerly President of Group Research and a Member of the Executive Committee at F. Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland for 12 years. Dr Knowles also served as a Board Member at Genentech Inc. for over 10 years and was a Member of the Board of Chugai Pharmaceuticals, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining Roche in 1997, he was Research Director at Glaxo Wellcome Europe. Dr Knowles has also served as Chairman of the Hever Group and the EFPIA Research Directors Group. He was instrumental in creating the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and was the first Chairman of the Board of IMI (a Joint Undertaking with the EU Commission). He is a Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, holds a visiting chair at the University of Oxford, and is a visiting scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2017, Dr Knowles was recognised for his contribution to medical science with an election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Research Interest

pharmaceutics