Tim Tasker, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, has become chief medical officer at Heptares Therapeutics Ltd, which specialises in GPCR-based drug discovery and development. Dr Tasker, who also holds the title of vice president of development, will lead Heptares’s clinical development activities.
Dr Tasker is a physician and a clinical pharmacologist who has worked for more than 20 years at GlaxoSmithKline Plc, leading early-stage clinical research. He subsequently worked for Evotec AG and then set up his own consulting firm.
Dr Tasker is a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians and of the UK Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.
Heptares announced the appointment on 9 January 2014.
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