An incredible journey: from start-up to exiting to a global pharmaceutical

A﻿ thriving science & tech communityLocated in a stunning woodland setting, the Wood Centre for Innovation offers a wide range of flexible workspaces to grow your business. From private offices  and coworking space in our Barclays Eagle Lab, to specialist R&D facilities, laboratories and workshops, we have the perfect space available for your science or technology focused business.As well as a fantastic location in Headington's Health and Life Sciences District, the Centre is one of Oxford’s most efficient buildings with natural heating and cooling systems. It also includes a range of indoor and outdoor meeting facilities, allocated car and cycle parking, and superfast broadband.

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About this eventCome and hear the real-life story of start-up to exit from David Llewellyn, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Oxford-based biotech company, DJS Antibodies. Founded in 2014, DJS was acquired by AbbVie in October 2022 for $255m to access their lead IPF programme as well as revolutionary HEPTAD platform. David will talk about how the company started, the knife-edge decisions they had to make along the way, and the key turning points.Speaker:David Llewellyn, Managing Director &amp; Co-Founder, DJS AntibodiesDavid led DJS Antibodies from initiation through to its acquisition by AbbVie in 2022. He loves discovery, and so is motivated by the pursuit of developing totally novel therapeutics. He has more than 10 years’ experience in evolutionary immunology, antibody characterisation and myeloid cell biology, and he leads the team at DJS in the pursuit to create world-changing antibody therapeutics. Having originally come from the sunny shores of Australia, David came to the UK to complete a PhD at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship. While studying he co-founded and led the Good Lad Initiative, an organisation promoting positive masculinity and gender equality amongst groups of young men. David remains committed to promoting values of equality and diversity throughout DJS and more broadly.

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