Alistair Draffan 

Biography

 Alistair G. Draffan has more than 15 years’ pharmaceutical industry experience in the discovery, development and commercialisation of novel drugs. Alistair was Director, Drug Discovery at Biota with responsibility for managing a multidisciplinary group of expert scientists, defining research and IP strategies and ensuring that collaborative R&D was executed to the highest standards. He has led teams working on numerous anti-infective projects including those that successfully identified antiviral candidates for RSV and hepatitis C (nucleosides and non-nucleosides). Alistair worked as a Senior Medicinal Chemist at Celltech R&D (UCB Pharma, UK) before joining Biota in 2002 and holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Nottingham, UK and a BSc (Hons) degree in chemistry from the University of Glasgow, UK.    

Research Interest

 Drug Discovery