• Joe Foster Credit:Phil Mynott
  • Team Expansion Spurs Move to TusPark
    Dr Karin Schmitt Credit:Phil Mynott
  • Joe Foster Credit:Phil Mynott
  • Team Expansion Spurs Move to TusPark
    Dr Karin Schmitt Credit:Phil Mynott

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Team Expansion Spurs Move to TusPark

The appointment of 15 new staff to its scientific and management teams has seen the transfer of UK company Mogrify Ltd to the TusPark Bio-Innovation Centre at the Cambridge Science Park. The new hires, including Dr. Karin Schmitt as Chief Business Officer and Joe Foster as Chief Operating Officer, bring the company’s headcount currently to 20 and includes cell scientists, bioinformaticians and executives. The Bio-Innovation Centre is fitted with laboratories for multiple occupiers in the life sciences sector; as an anchor tenant Mogrify occupies 12,000 sq. ft of laboratory and office space.

Dr Schmitt will lead Mogrify’s commercial operations and its R&D function, drawing on over 25 years’ experience including successful leadership roles within the life sciences, biotech and therapeutic industries at Exelixis, Inc, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Horizon Discovery Group plc and PredictImmune Ltd. Karin obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, followed by three years of post-doctoral research in genetics at the University of Cambridge.

Joe Foster’s role will consist of managing the corporate operations and IP management function. He began his career at Horizon Discovery Group plc working within the corporate development team, gaining experience in business planning, licensing, technology evaluation and M&A analysis, before becoming Dr. Jonathan Milner's (co-founder of Abcam plc) Portfolio Manager where he built and managed a complex portfolio of more than 40 early-stage life science companies. Joe holds a degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology from the University of Bath and an MPhil in Business Management from the University of Cambridge.


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