Company: NCNA
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-042709
Chunk: 193

Company: NuCana plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 193
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 to December 2001 and Warner-Lambert Company (now Pfizer Inc.) from April 1992 to October 1995. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Scottish Lifesciences Association. In 2018, Mr. Griffith received a lifetime achievement award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Life Sciences’ by the Scottish Government. Mr. Griffith is a named inventor on over 398 patents and over 300 pending patent applications. He received an M.B.A. from Cardiff Business School and a B.Sc. Honours in Biology from the University of Stirling. We believe that Mr. Griffith possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a member of our board of directors, including the perspective and experience he brings as our Chief Executive Officer, which provides historic knowledge of our company, operational expertise and continuity to our board of directors, and his significant experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in positions including chief executive officer, chief operating officer and executive director.
 Jeffrey Bloss, M.D. has served as our Chief Medical Officer since August 2021. In addition, he has over 20 years of leadership experience in oncology at multiple pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, Genentech, Xencor, GSK, Astellas, and Aegerion. Immediately prior to joining NuCana, Dr. Bloss served as Chief Medical Officer of Tarveda Therapeutics a venture-backed clinical stage oncology company from August 2018 to August 2021. Prior to Tarveda, Dr. Bloss was Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs at Aegerion Pharmaceuticals from June 2017 to August 2018. Dr. Bloss completed his Residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center and his Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Bloss received his M.D. from Thomas Jefferson University Medical College and B.S. from Juniata College. 
David Harrison, M.D. has served as our Head of Translational Medicine since December 2017. Dr. Harrison is also professor of Pathology at the University of St. Andrews since May 2012, honorary professor at The University of Edinburgh, and an adjunct professor at the University of Florida since 2003. He also oversees ethics relating to use of human tissue at Lothian NHS University Hospitals in Edinburgh where he is an honorary consultant pathologist. Dr. Harrison has served as Chair of the U.K. Government advisory Committee on Committee