Jason Cooke - consultant

MA DPhil MBA CChem MRSC

Dr Jason Cooke has more than 26 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development at one of the world's leading pharma companies.

Jason has a proven track record of leading chemistry teams during the development of novel synthetic routes and efficient chemical processes. He has also successfully led a multi-disciplinary team to develop the commercial supply chain for the HIV attachment inhibitor fostemsavir tromethamine. Marketing authorisations were recently submitted by ViiV Healthcare to both the FDA and EMA to allow commercialisation of fostemsavir. For this work Jason was awarded a Gold employee recognition award.

Prior to this Jason worked on a large number of clinical and pre-clinical development compounds developing new routes and processes using a range of technologies including flow chemistry and Quality by Design (QbD) approaches. Jason has extensive experience of working with companies and teams in the UK, Europe, US, India and China.

In addition to a first class degree in chemistry and doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry - both from the University of Oxford - Jason also holds an MBA with merit from Warwick Business School.