Jonathan Knowles, a former executive at Roche, has been appointed as executive chairman of the Board of Directors at Immunocore, a UK-based developer of T-cell receptor technology. He succeeds Nicholas Cross who will remain on the board as deputy chair. Dr Knowles, who has been a non-executive director since 2010, was formerly president of group research and a member of the executive committee at F. Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki in Finland, holds a visiting chair at the University of Oxford and is a visiting scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Immunocore announced the appointment on 14 November 2013.
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