Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 3, 2004

TIM BREARS – XENTION DISCOVERY LTD

TIM BREARS is Chief Executive Officer of Xention Discovery Ltd. He was a Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Gendaq Ltd. spin-out of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology and, after the acquisition of Gendaq by Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. he became Vice President fro the Business Development at Sangamo. From 1993 to 1999, he was Director of Licensing and Business Development at Novartis Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He holds a BA and MA degrees from Oxford University, a Ph.D in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a description, what the business, what the

company is, as well as enough history to give us a good context for how

Xention became what it is today?

Mr. Brears: Xention