Clive Stanway

In recent times Clive Stanway has chosen to become an independent cancer drug discovery and development advisor. He is a non-executive director for Atelerix Ltd, CytoSeek Ltd and Babraham Bioscience Technologies and serves on the scientific advisory boards of 4Bio Capital and ANGLE plc in addition to his duties for Araris.

Clive was trained as a scientist in cell and molecular biology at Imperial College and Oxford University rising to junior faculty status. He transitioned into cancer drug discovery and development firstly at Xenova and then Prolifix and subsequently at Cancer Research UK where he established and led a team operating to pharmaceutical company standards. Over his career he has been involved in projects which have matured from discovery status into clinical development. For many years, Clive was part of the executive team in the commercial arm of Cancer Research UK and during that time it grew to have an interest in 4 drugs on the market and multimillion pound revenues. He was also an intellectual property contributor to many cancer therapeutic and diagnostic start-up companies and significant driver in the initiation and completion of various deals in the pharmaceutical sector including companies such as Celgene and FORMA Therapeutics.