Ambitious
Together we are discovering new drugs to treat orphan or immunological disease
Our ambitious team combines cutting edge scientific thinking with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach. We are curious and open minded. We care about our work and each other. We are proud of what we are achieving together. We are committed to and passionate about delivering on our mission - to discover new medicines that can make a difference to people’s lives.
OMASS
Meet Some Of Our Team
Rosamond Deegan
As CEO I enjoy developing strategy, managing the Board and engaging our team. I am focused on making a difference to patients with orphan and immunological disease.
Born England |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Table Football Aficionado
Ali Jazayeri
A card-carrying science enthusiast who can’t believe his good fortune of working with talented, smart scientists and cutting-edge technologies every day on exciting projects with the potential to discover novel medicines.
Born Iran |
Joined 2018 |
Fun Fact Ancestry DNA composition: 99.4% Western Asian and North African, 0.5% Sudanese and 0.1% unassigned looking for a home!
Adam Jan Sanderson
As Director of Medicinal Chemistry, I enjoy helping the team turn weakly active compounds into potent safe human medicines.
Born England |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Recently learned to sail and wake surf (not at the same time)
Amir Feizi
As the Director of Bioinformatics, I am committed to develop and establish a data-driven and AI-enabled target identification and validation strategy with a focus on the orphan and immunological diseases.
Born Iran |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact I am part-time Kamancheh player (Persian bowed string instrument)
Idlir Liko
As Director of Technology, I am proud in leading a team in the development of novel native MS-based platforms and applying them to biological systems with direct implication in immunological disorders.
Born Albania |
Joined 2016 |
Fun Fact I have studied in 5 countries
Katharina Duerr
As Director of Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology, I enjoy working with a fantastic team of protein biochemists and structural biologists to provide the mass spec platforms at OMass with high quality protein and to solve x-ray and cryo-EM structures for guiding the design of small molecule drug candidates.
Born Germany |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact Chocolate fairy
Miguel Silva
As Strategy Director, I enjoy thinking about the best path forward for our programs and how we can make the biggest difference to patients.
Born Portugal |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact Previous 2x office ping pong champion
Karolina Gherbi
As a molecular pharmacologist, I am committed to discovering novel therapeutics to improve patients’ lives.
Born Bulgaria |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact STEM Enthusiast
Chudar Rameshwaran
As Financial Controller, I lead the finance function and I am responsible for maintaining all the financial systems, as well as supporting the wider success of the business.
Born Sri Lanka |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Can stand on one leg for an absurd period of time
Laia Malet Sanz
As a Medicinal Chemist, I really enjoy generating new hypothesis to improve our molecules, testing them and rationalising the results. Ultimately, I aim to add value to our projects and deliver successful clinical candidates.
Born Spain |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact As well as spending time with my family, I like sport and used to play Table Tennis
Lewis Pennicott
As a Principal Scientist in Medicinal Chemistry, I strive to design compounds that will improve the lives of patients with immunological or genetic disorders.
Born England |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Table Tennis enthusiast
Maria Musgaard
As a computational chemist, I am focused on developing models for understanding and predicting the interactions between potential drugs and their biological targets as well as contributing to designing new potential drug molecules.
Born Denmark |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Often seen on the river in a kayak or on a stand-up paddle board
Agni Gavriilidou
As a scientist in the Mass Spectrometry team, I enjoy developing our Native MS platforms. I am focused on delivering targeted solutions for our diseases.
Born Greece |
Joined 2018 |
Fun Fact Capoeira teacher
Andrew Bainbridge
As the Lab Manager for the Nottingham Site, I strive to streamline the functionality of the workspace. I am focused on optimizing stock provision and keeping equipment running.
Born England |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact I have Prosopagnosia
Liz Kirkwood
As Office Manager, I enjoy overseeing the general operation of the Nottingham office, providing administrative support to colleagues, and being part of the Finance team.
Born England |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact F1 Enthusiast
Kathryn North
Working within Human Resources I enjoy supporting the company’s growth via recruitment and contributing towards an engaged workforce, collaborative culture, and robust reward & recognition and employee wellbeing strategies.
Born England |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact I love to challenge myself
Kundan Sharma
As a Senior Scientist in the Mass Spec team, I work with the Affinity MS platform. Designing binding assays and high-throughput screening of drug libraries is what I love to brainstorm.
Born India |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Big Bollywood and Crime series fan, Love Gardening whenever I can.
Parth Kapoor
Goal oriented protein biochemist/ biology mass spec scientist with robust experience in membrane protein biology. As a member of a pharmaceutical biotech organization, I want to contribute towards uplifting and improving patient’s lives.
Born India |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Avid painter, love to doodle with the poodles and explore the world
Rezvan Moallemian
As an immunologist, I explore mechanisms involved in disease development in order to find a strategy to prevent and treat immune-related health problems.
Born Iran |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Painting
Benjamin Tehan
As head of Computational Chemistry, I utilise and empower computational means to enable more intelligent decisions faster.
Born Australia |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Can shear sheep
Antonio Biasutto
As a Senior Protein Biochemist, I am responsible for optimizing the biological reagents for our drug discovery efforts. My drive is to create a tangible positive impact on the world through my work and expertise.
Born Venezuela |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact You’re as likely to find me dancing as doing science in the lab; the two are not mutually exclusive.
Elvira Diamantopoulou
As a Senior Scientist in pharmacology, I enjoy developing new cell-based assays suitable for high-throughput screening. I am passionate about using robotic systems to automate my assays and working towards shared goals.
Born Greece |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Netflix enthusiast
Fernando Almeida
As an LC-MS enthusiastic and Senior Scientist, I have developed the AS-MS platform for compound library screening and hitting the nail on the head for compound finding across multiple company targets.
Born Brazil |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Football lover and H. Murakami’s books passionate
Kathy Sengmany
As a senior scientist, I enjoy being a part of a diverse, collaborative team, working towards developing treatments for orphan and immunological diseases.
Born Australia |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Enjoys walks through the English countryside
Kleitos Sokratous
As a Senior Scientist, I enjoy working on the development of high-resolution native mass spectrometry technology tailored for high-throughput drug screening.
Born Cyprus |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Gliding
Laurence Towner
As a Senior Scientist, I am driven by a fascination with the profound influence of the immune system on heath and disease and to find ways to modulate it to benefit patients’ lives.
Born England |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Keen musician and songwriter
Mark Soave
As a Senior Scientist, I am focused on delivering high quality research, contributing to OMass' efforts in tackling orphan and immunological diseases.
Born Germany |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact I direct and sing with a Barbershop Chorus
Norberto Escudero Urquijo
As the laboratory manager of OMass – Oxford, I am focused on the organization, operations, and maintenance of the lab, and supporting our great team of scientists.
Born Spain |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Experienced Bread Baker
Rachael Skyner
As a cheminformatician, I am focused on complementing the work of experimentalists by finding new and interesting ways to analyse data and make new predictions.
Born United Kingdom |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Board game geek
Reda Assal
As a senior scientist, I enjoy leading GPCR biochemistry projects for drug discovery/structural biology programs. Prior to that I successfully co-led a structural biology project for the human solute carrier in Pasteur Institute (Paris).
Born Algeria |
Joined 2018 |
Fun Fact a blue flair for membrane protein delivery.
Shahid Rehan
I’m passionate about doing a curiosity driven and impact-oriented science in the lab.
Born Pakistan |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Travel, hiking, cricket
Viviane Mignone
As Senior Scientist I enjoy developing new assays, finding the best way to address questions that come along with the projects. I am proud to be part of such a collaborative team, focused on delivering new treatments for patients with immunological diseases.
Born Brazil |
Joined 2019 |
Fun Fact Love Volleyball
Kazuyo Kaneko
As a Senior Immunologist, I strive to address unmet medical needs in immunological and genetic diseases, to improve patients’ lives.
Born Japan |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact Likes making pottery and baking
Luigi De Colibus
Senior Scientist II focused on developing a structural biology pipeline to accelerate drug discovery and improve patients’ lives.
Born Italy |
Joined 2021 |
Fun Fact Blue
Hsin Loke
As VP of Finance and Operations, I am responsible for ensuring we have Finance, People and IT enablers in place to deliver our ambition of making new medicines. I am passionate about creating an environment where people thrive and can do their best work.
Born Malaysia |
Joined 2018 |
Fun Fact Zwift virtual bike racing and knitting, not at the same time….!
Jonathan Hopper
As VP Platforms and Founder, it has been a privilege to help OMass grow and transform into a drug discovery company with the potential to truly impact patients with immunological diseases.
Born England |
Joined 2016 |
Fun Fact Snowboarding
Steven Charlton
As VP Pharmacology I am proud to lead an excellent team of pharmacologists and immunologists as we validate new targets and identify the optimal compounds for their therapeutic modulation.
Born United Kingdom |
Joined 2020 |
Fun Fact Passionate about live music
Lauren Ross
As Human Resources Administrator I enjoy supporting the workforce and take pride in aiding the growth of the company via recruitment processes.
Born England |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact I enjoy taking part in running challenges
Abena Amponsah
As a pharmacology scientist, I am focused on contributing to the development of novel drugs that will make a difference in the lives of patients with unmet clinical needs.
Born Ghana |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact Singer and travel enthusiast
Tatiana Silva
As a mass spectrometry scientist I enjoy learning the ins and outs of methods and equipment. As such, I am focused on making a positive contribution to the team.
Born Portugal |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact Crazy plant lady
Srinath Krishnamurthy
As a Senior Scientist at OMass, I enjoy tackling and solving 'complex' problems. I am excited to contribute towards the development of drugs against challenging targets and orphan diseases.
Born India |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact I love racquet sports, hiking, long board games and ridiculously long fantasy fiction books.
Emma Norgate
As Scientist II at OMass I enjoy using native mass spectrometry to solve complex challenges, to ultimately help patients.
Born England |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact I enjoy getting out in nature and I'm looking forward to exploring the countryside around Oxford
Christine Oswald
As a Principal Scientist in the Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology department I am contributing to a better understanding of ligand-protein interactions in order to develop new medicines.
Born Germany |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact Acted in an Indian movie
Elias Hamida
As the Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis I am focused on helping develop financial planning processes, alongside other Finance-related projects to ultimately help OMass reach its objective to discover new drugs to treat orphan and immunological disease.
Born England |
Joined 2022 |
Fun Fact Trilingual
OUR
Values and Culture
We are proud of our diverse and international team. We enjoy working in multi-disciplinary teams across our sites in Oxford and Nottingham, and in partnership with our stakeholders globally.
Responsible
Innovative
Focused
Caring
Collaborative
Ambitious
MISSION-DRIVEN • PURPOSEFUL • THINK BIG • PROACTIVE • INTENTIONAL • PATIENT-CENTRED
We are driven by our shared mission to discover, develop and deliver impactful medicines to patients using cutting edge science.
We are motivated to push boundaries and think big as we tackle challenges we confront as a company.
We take a proactive approach towards research, and we are intentional in setting our short-term and long-term goals.
Being purposefully ambitious allows us to celebrate our individual and collective strengths, and aspirations to grow, learn and tackle hard to drug targets for our patients.
Responsible
ACCOUNTABLE • RIGOROUS • HIGH QUALITY • RELIABLE • MOTIVATED
At OMass, we take personal and collective responsibility for delivering our shared goals.
We hold ourselves and each other accountable – to our patients, colleagues, investors, as well as our work and mission.
We apply the necessary rigor to ensure high quality.
We are self motivated and rely on each other to operate and perform at the highest levels.
Innovative
INGENIOUS • THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX • INQUISITIVE • AGILE • CONTINUOUS LEARNING • RISK TOLERANT
At OMass, we are inquisitive and resourceful
Each day we solve problems, think outside the box and push boundaries in the pursuit of delivering novel therapeutics.
When we hit a stumbling block, our ingenuity helps us remain agile and allows us to find new ways towards our goals.
In the spirit of continuous learning and improvement, we accept that not everything will work first time and we learn from any failures.
We share knowledge and ideas, and recognize innovation is a team effort.
Focused
PRIORITIZED • ALIGNED • GOAL-ORIENTED • SENSE OF URGENCY • COMMITTED • CLARITY
To ensure alignment with our mission, we take a focused approach to our delivery
We wisely utilize our resources and pay attention to our priorities.
We act with a sense of urgency to our work and commitment to colleagues and patients.
We balance pursuing our ambitious goals and innovations with our ability to ”focus and finish”.
We focus on our most important work, and we are clear on our daily priorities to deliver our collective goals and mission.
Caring
CAMARADERIE • INCLUSIVE • APPRECIATIVE • SUPPORTIVE • RESPECTFUL • INTERDEPENDENT
People at OMass care about each other as individuals, respecting and embracing our diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.
Really getting to know each other helps us feel connected and included.
We are unselfish, appreciate each other and take time to help and support one another.
We value camaraderie and interdependencies between us as a team, and with the environment in which we operate.
Caring is a 360° thing, where team members care about each other, the company cares about us, and we care about the company.
Collaborative
OPEN-MINDED • CANDID • TRANSPARENT • RECEPTIVE • ASSUMING GOOD INTENT • COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS
People at OMass are open and enjoy a highly collaborative environment.
We expect transparency from each other and from the company, and value information-sharing to keep our collective eyes on our overall goals.
We are receptive to everyone’s diverse ideas and opinions, and assume people have good intentions when they offer viewpoints or feedback.
When we need to have challenging conversations, we face them together and with a candor that ensures productive resolution.
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JOIN US
Open Positions
At OMass we are proud of the great work that we do, and we wouldn’t be successful without our dedicated and highly motivated team. We are currently hiring for the roles detailed below. We offer a competitive remuneration package, including sharing in the success of the company, and flexible working arrangements.
We are looking for talented professionals who share our vision and values.
If you would like to join us, follow the instructions on how to apply below each role, providing both your CV and a covering letter. Please note that positions may be based in Oxford or Nottingham.
Speculative Applications (Chemistry)
Oxford
Speculative Applications (Mass Spectrometry)
Oxford
Speculative Applications (Pharmacology & Immunology)
Nottingham
Speculative Applications (Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology)
Oxford