Ted took over as Prokarium’s CEO in March 2014 after serving as Development Director since December 2011. Prior to joining Prokarium, he has held positions in clinical research at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and in strategy consulting at Sweden’s Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, where he coordinated the country’s national innovation strategy. Ted holds a PhD from the University of Guelph, Canada, and has been recognised as a leader in biotechnology under the Sloan Foundation funded Synthetic Biology Leadership Accelerator Program (LEAP). He is a member of the international Bacterial Vaccines Network (BactiVac) management board, as well as an active member of the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA).

Rocky is the CTO and co-founder of Prokarium. Rocky completed a PhD in genomics of cyanobacteria at Newcastle University in 1997 and joined Cobra Biologics later that year. He spent two years from 1998 at the University of Oxford in a research collaboration, and then relocated to Cobra’s headquarters at Keele, Staffordshire in 2000. Rocky managed Cobra’s molecular biology group, which conducted numerous internal R&D projects and contracts for biopharmaceutical companies in the field of recombinant protein and DNA production. Rocky was involved in spinning Prokarium out from Cobra in 2012, and he has developed and patented several new genetic technologies and vaccine candidates for diseases including Chlamydia, plague, enteric fever and non-typhoidal Salmonella.

Kristen Albright joined Prokarium in 2018 as the VP, Business Development and Translational Research. Prior to joining Prokarium, Kristen was a Life Science Investor at Osage University Partners, a Philadelphia-based venture capital fund focused on academic spinouts from leading research universities. At Osage, Kristen completed multiple deals in the immunology, oncology and rare disease spaces ranging from target validation to clinical-stage companies. Earlier in her career, Kristen worked within Business Development at multiple mid-size companies including Emergent BioSolutions and Cangene Corporation, where she specialized in asset licensing and M&A. In the latter she was involved in the acquisition, integration and regulatory approval of a haemophilia programme. Kristen earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and is a licensed pharmacist. She also holds an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.

Livija joined Prokarium in 2018 as the VP Immunology and Oncology. She is leading the strategic and operational development of Prokarium’s immuno-oncology portfolio. As an immunologist Livija specializes in mucosal and tumour immunology, immunological assay development and immuno-oncology. Prior to joining Prokarium, Livija headed the lead selection and immuno-oncology R&D at Oxford BioTherapeutics where she focused on the target discovery and the development of immunomodulatory antibodies for cancer treatment. She has a MA in Medical Biotechnology and holds a PhD in Basic and Applied Immunology. Livija conducted her research at Cancer Research UK and King’s College London before joining the biotech industry.

Mike is Prokarium’s Head of Clinical Development and brings over 25 years of experience in biopharmaceutial development from the US, UK and Denmark. He was VP bacterial vaccine research at Acambis UK, Chief Development Officer at ACE Biosciences and TD Vaccines in Denmark and has provided independent product development consultancy to pharma, biotech and academic clients. He has a BA in biochemistry and a D.Phil in molecular immunology from the University of Oxford and was a Fogarty International Postdoctoral Fellow at the US National Cancer Institute, NIH. Mike has been involved in the development of a number of vaccines against diarrhoeal diseases and continues to be consulted as Key Opinion Leader by various organisations in the enteric diseases field.

Paola is Prokarium’s Head of Molecular Biology. She joined Prokarium in 2013 as Principal Scientist, following on two years as Senior Scientist at Cobra Biologics within the molecular biology group, where she was involved as lead scientist in a number of collaborative research and development projects. Paola has a PhD in microbial molecular genetics from the University of Palermo, Italy and has worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Experimental Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis in Milan (Italy), the School of Biology of Lund University (Sweden) and the Institute for Life Science of Swansea University (UK). Her research activity has focused mainly on microbiology and microbial molecular genetics.