Andy Richards

Dr Andy Richards is a serial Biotechnology entrepreneur and business angel. He is currently a director of Vectura , Biowisdom, Summit, Theradeas, Cancer Research Technology (commercial arm of CR-UK) Babraham Bioscience Technology, Aitua, Pharmakodex and is Chairman of Altacor . 

Andy was a founder of Chiroscience and an executive director through to the merger with Celltech in 1999. Since that time he has been founding and investing in new
biotechnology companies including several of those listed above as well as Arakis, Geneservice, Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd, Amedis Pharmaceuticals, Sirus Pharmaceuticals and Daniolabs all of which were recently sold. 

He is a director of the Bioindustry Association (BIA) a  founder member of the Cambridge Angels, a founder investor in LibraryHouse and an advisor to Toscana Life Sciences.