Dr. Simon Tucker brings decades of experience in pharmaceutical research and development and management. He also serves on the board of Jumpstart Fertility. He previously worked at GD Searle, USA, helping make key discoveries leading to the development of a treatment for HIV infection. He was later vice president of research at Biota Pharmaceuticals (now Vaxart), where he was responsible for their entire intellectual property and research portfolio. In 2015, he founded and was CEO of the successful contract research organization, 360biolabs. Dr. Tucker has a BS in biochemistry from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Reading.