Ian Smith

Ian is the Chief Medical Officer of Artios Pharma and has a wealth of experience in the translational research and clinical development of medicines to treat cancer.

Ian has held leadership positions within the global clinical development organizations of both Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca and has held academic and clinical positions in the University of Aberdeen. Prior to joining Artios Ian served as Global Senior Medical Director within Eli Lilly where he led the worldwide clinical development, regulatory approval and subsequent commercialization of key successful breakthrough medicines for multiple indications.

While at AstraZeneca Ian lead both early and late phase clinical development of several novel cancer therapeutics for both adult and pediatric indications. Ian has served as reviewer for several oncology journals and sat on national grant awarding panels within the United States and the United Kingdom.

Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry Ian was a Clinical Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen where he led research projects evaluating novel methods of predicting and assessing early treatment response of cancer therapeutics.