Dr Ajay Agrawal, PhD

Non-Executive Director

Dr Agrawal has almost 20 years’ experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry worldwide. He was a founder of polyMASC Pharmaceuticals plc, London in 1995, the first UK biotech company, derived from a university that was directly listed on AIM, raising approximately $40 million in 1995, and subsequently merged with a NASDAQ-listed company, Valentis Inc (USA) in 1999 to become one of the biggest companies in the delivery of biologics at that time. He currently sits on the editorial advisory board of three international medical journals, Current Drug Delivery, Infectious Disorders- Drug Targets, and Recent Patents on Drug Delivery and Formulation, Bentham Press, California, USA. Dr Agrawal has been a consultant to a number of companies in the sector, including Genovac GmbH (Germany), Qiagen (Germany), PHT Pharma (Italy) and Karo Bio (Sweden). He holds a PhD in Chemistry and has conducted his post-doctoral research in the faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada and at the Royal Free Hospital in London.


Home About ImmuPharma Lead compounds Discovery pipeline Management team News For Investors Contact us	Dr Ajay Agrawal, PhD Non-Executive Director Dr Agrawal has almost 20 years’ experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry worldwide. He was a founder of polyMASC Pharmaceuticals plc, London in 1995, the first UK biotech company, derived from a university that was directly listed on AIM, raising approximately $40 million in 1995, and subsequently merged with a NASDAQ-listed company, Valentis Inc (USA) in 1999 to become one of the biggest companies in the delivery of biologics at that time. He currently sits on the editorial advisory board of three international medical journals, Current Drug Delivery, Infectious Disorders- Drug Targets, and Recent Patents on Drug Delivery and Formulation, Bentham Press, California, USA. Dr Agrawal has been a consultant to a number of companies in the sector, including Genovac GmbH (Germany), Qiagen (Germany), PHT Pharma (Italy) and Karo Bio (Sweden). He holds a PhD in Chemistry and has conducted his post-doctoral research in the faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada and at the Royal Free Hospital in London.