AstraZeneca Veteran Returns To Biotech With Fresh Goals For A New Decade

An Interview With Former AstraZeneca/MedImmune VP Jane Osbourn

In December 2019, Jane Osbourn became the first woman to win Scrip’s Life Time Achievement Award for her work in human monoclonal antibody drug research.

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Dr. Jane Osbourn OBE, Chair At Mogrify And UK BioIndustry Association

Up until spring 2019, Dr. Jane Osbourn OBE was vice president of R&D and site leader for AstraZeneca PLC’s MedImmune unit in Cambridge, UK. She is now working on several smaller biotech projects, one of which focuses scientific thinking around why people are well to inform R&D for new approaches to treating disease.

Osbourn, an expert in antibody engineering, was involved in the discovery of the world’s best-selling drug, Humira. She has authored...

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