• About Us
Addressing the root cause of severe neurodegenerative diseases through next-generation gene editing
Evox Therapeutics is redefining the treatment of genetically-driven neurodegenerative diseases by harnessing the power of next-generation genome editing technologies.
Backed by leading investors and partners, Evox is advancing an innovative, proprietary pipeline with MSH3 for Huntington’s disease as our lead program, alongside ATXN2 for ALS and SCA2, while unlocking broader opportunities across genetic and non-genetic central nervous system diseases. We are dedicated to transforming patient outcomes through cutting-edge science and unparalleled therapeutic innovation.
Leadership
Evox has assembled an experienced, multidisciplinary team with deep expertise spanning all aspects from early research and development to intellectual property and commercialization of novel drug modalities. We cultivate an open and transparent environment, united by the goal of improving the lives of patients facing severe diseases.
Per Lundin, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Irina Antonijevic, M.D., Ph.D.
Fractional Chief Medical Officer, Consultant
Dave Carter, Ph.D.
VP, Research
Bob Higton
VP, Finance & Operations
Kerry Jaycock
VP, People & Culture
Colin Love, Ph.D.
Fractional Head of CMC
Per Lundin, Ph.D.
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Categories: Leadership
Per Lundin is a serial entrepreneur who serves as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Evox Therapeutics Ltd. He has ~15 years of experience founding, leading and advising biotech companies developing advanced therapies. Prior to co-founding and building out Evox, he founded and led IsletOne Therapeutics, a cell therapy company developing allogeneic cell therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, which was ultimately acquired in PE-led trade sale. Over the last two decades, Per has been involved in the formation of five biotech companies developing products based on technologies ranging from cell therapies and exosomes to peptide-based drugs and non-viral delivery systems. He currently serves as board director of Breakthrough T1D International and Breakthrough T1D UK, the leading non-profit funder of research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes. He is a qualified European Patent Attorney with extensive business development and licensing experience; Per earned his Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute, his M.S. in biotechnology engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, and his MBA from Stockholm University School of Business.
Irina Antonijevic, M.D., Ph.D.
Position: Fractional Chief Medical Officer, Consultant
Categories: Leadership
Irina Antonijevic, M.D., Ph.D., serves as Fractional Chief Medical Officer of Evox Therapeutics. She is also Chief Medical Officer of Trace Neuroscience, a biopharmaceutical company developing genomic medicines for people living with neurodegenerative diseases.
Prior to joining Trace, Irina served as Chief Medical Officer at EveryONE Medicines, a precision medicine company targeting genetic variants causing fatal, neurodegenerative diseases. In this role, she was responsible for designing and implementing an individualized medicines platform focused on correcting uniquely rare neurogenetic mutations. She previously served as Chief Medical Officer and Head of R&D at Triplet Therapeutics, a company developing treatments for genetic conditions associated with expanded DNA nucleotide repeats. Earlier in her career, Irina held clinical and scientific roles at various pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Wave Life Sciences, vasopharm GmbH, Sanofi Genzyme, Lundbeck and Schering AG.
Irina is a board-certified physician trained in psychiatry and neurology at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Berlin. She holds an M.D. from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
Dave Carter, Ph.D.
Position: VP, Research
Categories: Leadership
Dave is Head of Research at Evox Therapeutics. He has over 20 years of experience working on pioneering, multidisciplinary applied research projects. Prior to joining Evox, he led a research team that focused on extracellular vesicles as a Professor at Oxford Brookes University where he secured over £1m in grant funding and published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. He was an active member of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and co-founder and first president of the UK Society for Extracellular Vesicles. His passion for exosomes brought him to Evox in 2021, where he has since supported the development of the DeliverEX platform and contributed to several pipeline projects in a matrix approach. Dave obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge where he provided the first direct in vivo demonstration that enhancers and promoters physically interact to regulate gene expression. He also spent a year at the Sanger Centre, contributing important mapping data for the Human Genome Project.
Bob Higton
Position: VP, Finance & Operations
Categories: Leadership
Bob is VP Finance & Operations Director at Evox Therapeutics. With over 16 years of financial experience, including a decade in the UK biotech sector, Bob is an established finance leader. He has played a pivotal role at Evox since joining in 2018, driving finance to support the company’s strategy.
Before joining Evox, Bob worked at Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc (now NIOX Group plc) where he helped scale the company post-IPO, working on multiple successful acquisitions during his tenure.
As an expert finance director, Bob has nurtured a culture of excellence within his team, empowering colleagues to excel. His financial insights have guided Evox through the complexities of biotech finance, enabling decisions that foster innovation and maintain the company’s leading position.
Bob is an ACCA certified accountant and graduated from the Reed Business School in accounting and finance.
Kerry Jaycock
Position: VP, People & Culture
Categories: Leadership
Kerry is a strategic and commercially focused leader with significant experience in business change and transformation. Motivated by a passion to drive the culture and ethos of a company, as Head of HR at Centrica Customer Services she enabled the organisation to effectively engage with both their employees and with key audiences. With the ability to influence and build strong relationships at all levels across organisations, oversee and project manage large-scale restructuring and organisational change, Kerry is motivated to deliver through values, employee engagement and communication.
Colin Love, Ph.D.
Position: Fractional Head of CMC
Categories: Leadership
Colin Love, Ph.D., serves as Fractional Head of CMC of Evox Therapeutics and brings more than three decades of experience developing, manufacturing and launching biotechnology products.
Most recently, Colin was Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Replimune, a biotechnology company developing oncolytic immunotherapies, where he served since 2015. Since December 2014, he has provided consultancy support to a range of life science companies, from small gene therapy start-ups to large established biotechnology companies, including Amgen. Earlier in his career, Colin was a Vice President of Clinical Operations at Amgen, where he was responsible for the two sites developing and manufacturing T-VEC, an oncolytic virus therapy approved by the FDA and EMA in 2015. Earlier in his career, Love held leadership roles at BioVex Group Inc., Celltech plc (now UCB Celltech), Medeva plc, Serono Diagnostics and Amersham International. Colin holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Glasgow.
Board of Directors
Per Lundin, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Martin Andrews
Chairman
Evan Caplan, M.D.
OrbiMed
Laura Feinleib
Redmile Group
Douglas Treco, Ph.D.
CRISPR Therapeutics
Wallace Wallace
Oxford Science Enterprises
Sarah Gordon Wild
Oxford Nanopore
Per Lundin, Ph.D.
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Categories: Board of Directors
Per Lundin is a serial entrepreneur who serves as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Evox Therapeutics Ltd. He has ~15 years of experience founding, leading and advising biotech companies developing advanced therapies. Prior to co-founding and building out Evox, he founded and led IsletOne Therapeutics, a cell therapy company developing allogeneic cell therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, which was ultimately acquired in PE-led trade sale. Over the last two decades, Per has been involved in the formation of five biotech companies developing products based on technologies ranging from cell therapies and exosomes to peptide-based drugs and non-viral delivery systems. He currently serves as board director of Breakthrough T1D International and Breakthrough T1D UK, the leading non-profit funder of research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes. He is a qualified European Patent Attorney with extensive business development and licensing experience; Per earned his Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute, his M.S. in biotechnology engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, and his MBA from Stockholm University School of Business.
Martin Andrews
Position: Chairman
Categories: Board of Directors
Martin is a respected commercial leader with a strong track record in strategy development and operational delivery most recently as Senior Vice President, Rare Diseases at GlaxoSmithKline, where he oversaw the development and launch of Strimvelis, the world’s first life-saving gene therapy for children. He currently serves on the Board of Freeline Therapeutics.
Evan Caplan, M.D.
Position: OrbiMed
Categories: Board of Directors
Evan is a Principal on the private investment team at OrbiMed, a leading healthcare investment firm.
Laura Feinleib
Position: Redmile Group
Categories: Board of Directors
Laura is a Vice President at Redmile Group, specialising in biotechnology venture investing. She brings experience in investment banking, biomedical engineering and optical technology development.
Douglas Treco, Ph.D.
Position: CRISPR Therapeutics
Categories: Board of Directors
Doug is a seasoned biotech executive with extensive experience founding and leading highly successful biotech companies, including Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by UCB) and Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. (acquired by Shire Pharmaceuticals). He currently serves as the Lead Independent Director at CRISPR Therapeutics and was most recently Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Inozyme Pharma (acquired by BioMarin).
Wallace Wallace
Position: Oxford Science Enterprises
Categories: Board of Directors
Wallace is part of the Independent Investments team at Oxford Science Enterprises, supporting portfolio companies beyond the venture-building phase. She previously invested at M Ventures and began her career in Accenture’s strategy group. Wallace holds a B.Sc. in genetics from the University of York and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge.
Sarah Gordon Wild
Position: Oxford Nanopore
Categories: Board of Directors
Sarah has worked on Wall Street for over 15 years and was Managing Director, Management Committee Member and Senior Healthcare Analyst at Lone Pine Capital LLC from 1998 to 2003. She is also currently on the board of Oxford Nanopore and Redx.
Scientific Advisory Board
A core component of Evox’s strategy is to support and drive scientific exploration within the exosome and neurodegenerative disease space, with a relentless focus on translating scientific discoveries into patient benefits. To this end, Evox has established an extensive global network of scientific advisors and collaborators.
Michael Benatar, MBChB, M.S., DPhil
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Samir El Andaloussi, Ph.D.
Karolinska Institutet
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah Tabrizi, M.D., Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci
University College London
Fyodor Urnov, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Wood, FMedSci
University of Oxford
Michael Benatar, MBChB, M.S., DPhil
Position: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Neurology and the Walter Bradley Chair in ALS Research at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. A trailblazer in pre-symptomatic ALS research, Professor Benatar has led international consortia to discover early biomarkers and develop preventative strategies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Samir El Andaloussi, Ph.D.
Position: Karolinska Institutet
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Biomolecular Medicine and Advanced Therapy at Karolinska Institutet, where he leads the exosome research group within the Department of Laboratory Medicine Karolinska Institutet. A pioneer in extracellular vesicle–based drug delivery, Professor El Andaloussi has characterised exosome biology and engineered novel exosome platforms for macromolecule-based therapies targeting neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases.
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Position: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Institute Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT, and faculty member of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. A pioneer in controlled drug delivery, Langer holds over 1,400 patents and has authored over 1,600 papers. He advises Evox on brain and CNS delivery.
Sarah Tabrizi, M.D., Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci
Position: University College London
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Neurology at University College London, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, and Group Leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute. Professor Tabrizi spearheaded the first-in-human gene-lowering trials for Huntington’s disease, identifying key biomarkers and translational pathways for neurodegeneration.
Fyodor Urnov, Ph.D.
Position: University of California, Berkeley
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director at the Innovative Genomics Institute. A pioneer in genome editing, Professor Urnov co-developed foundational CRISPR/Cas tools and, as a co-founder of the CRISPR Cures centre, helped shepherd the development of a bespoke CRISPR base-editing therapy for “Baby KJ”, the first-ever personalized in vivo gene editing treatment.
Matthew Wood, FMedSci
Position: University of Oxford
Categories: Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Laboratory of RNA Biology and Neuromuscular Disease. He launched the field of exosome therapeutics by bioengineering exosomes for RNA delivery in the brain, demonstrating their potential as natural nanocarriers for CNS applications.
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