Alyson Fox, PHD
Lead Sponsor of Drug-resistant Infections Programme, Wellcome Trust
Alyson Fox joined Wellcome in November 2010. She has responsibility for the management and governance of our grant funding and review processes. Before Wellcome, she pursued a research career at University College London and Imperial College, and then in the pharma industry. Alyson spent 13 years working in drug discovery at Novartis, ultimately leading a therapeutic area responsible for a portfolio of projects from target discovery and preclinical development to clinical trials. She has experience in neuroscience, respiratory and gastrointestinal research areas.