Mike Westby, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer

Mike has over 25 years’ experience in Pharma R&D, having worked for both Roche and Pfizer before joining Centauri Therapeutics. Mike has worked across the Research and Development spectrum and whilst at Pfizer he helped successfully develop a novel therapy for treatment of HIV infection. He also headed up Pfizer’s Opportunities for Partnership in Medicine (OPM) Research Unit and was a member of the Research Leadership Team at Pfizer’s R&D UK Laboratories.
Mike trained in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University of Durham, obtained his PhD at Warwick University and then completed a postdoctoral research fellow at St George’s Hospital Medical School.