Olav Zilian
Senior Vice President Corporate Development
Management
Medigene
Sweden
Biography
Dr. Olav Zilian joined Medigene in January 2016 to drive corporate development of the company. Dr. Zilian can look back on extensive experience in brokerage service, investment banking and consultancy from his past eleven years at the Swiss based Baader Bank subsidiary Helvea SA where he focused as Senior Analyst on sell-side research for European healthcare companies. Prior, he worked as Research Assistant Professor at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) where he headed and integrated a team of 12 collaborators at the interface of fundamental and applied research. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Oncology at Genentech Inc. in San Francisco, USA. Dr. Zilian studied medicine and holds a MD from the University of Basel, Switzerland and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has received several awards for his analyst work, e.g. as "Europe No. 1 Stock Picker in Biotechnology" in 2014, and recently received an Executive Master of Business Administration from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Research Interest
Experimental Cancer Research
