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David Hulcoop

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Executive Director, Open Targets at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
📍 Baldock, England, United Kingdom

David Hulcoop is the Executive Director of Open Targets, a public-private consortium focused on identifying and prioritizing therapeutic targets for new medicines. He leverages his background in drug discovery and a PhD from the University of Cambridge to bridge the gap between academic and industrial science, enhancing translational impact.

He is passionate about solving complex, multi-dimensional problems in drug discovery, viewing target selection as the most critical challenge in the field. David is actively involved in supporting research for neurodegenerative diseases, including contributing to frameworks that aid in understanding Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

He has experience bridging organizational cultures to address critical challenges in drug discovery and has worked with the My Name5 Doddie Foundation.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Executive Director, Open Targets
Job Level
Senior
Location
Baldock, England, United Kingdom
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Drug Target Selection
He considers choosing the right therapeutic target to be the most important problem in drug discovery, a focus of his work at Open Targets.
Open Science Partnerships
He leads Open Targets, a major public-private consortium that brings together global pharmaceutical companies and leading academic institutes to innovate.
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Career

Work history

10-2023
Executive Director, Open Targets
European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
7-2023 - 10-2023
Acting Director, Open Targets
GSK
1-2019 - 7-2023
Open Targets Strategy & Operations Director
GSK
9-2016 - 1-2019
Open Targets Operations Director
GSK
2-2006 - 9-2007
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Professor Mark Lautens Research Group
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Education
2002 - 2006
PhD
University of Cambridge
2006 - 2007
Post-Doctoral Research
University of Toronto
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