Jane Osbourn

Professor

Jane Osbourn

  • CSO Alchemab Therapeutics
  • Alchemab Therapeutics
  • United Kingdom
  • Year elected: 2020

Types of Fellowship

  • Life Fellow

Areas of expertise

  • Antibody engineering, immunology, biologics drug discovery and development

BIO

Jane Osbourn is CSO of Alchemab Therapeutics and her contribution to medical sciences has been to generate antibody-based medicines in the Biotech and Pharma industry. She contributed to the discovery and development of 8 approved drugs with all the subsequent benefits to human health. Her work at Cambridge Antibody Technologies contributed to the invention of Humira, Benlysta and Abthrax before becoming a key member of the MedImmune team that delivered Durvalumab, Moxetumumab, Broadalumab, Benralizumab and influenza vaccines to the market. She continues to pioneer new antibody-based medicines and is the scientific founder of a biotech company taking an entirely novel approach to find naturally-occurring protective antibodies and developing them as therapeutics.