Tom Coulter

Dalriada Drug Discovery

• Dr. Tom Coulter is Head, Drug Discovery Programs and Partnerships at Dalriada Drug Discovery Inc. where he leads the company’s partnership activities, including business development and customer experience, enabling biotech and pharma partners to identify and develop new medicines. Over the past three decades, Tom has held senior leadership roles in European pharma and biotech, with over 20 years in contract research including an influential role with Evotec where for 17 years he helped to build the premier services company to a world leading position, leaving as Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery. More recently Tom was with Selvita in Krakow as the Director of Integrated Drug Discovery. Tom’s background is in medicinal chemistry, and he has extensive experience spanning the discovery and delivery of new small molecule and biologic agents. He has managed and worked within drug discovery programs from hit identification through to nomination of over 15 preclinical development candidates in the fields of cancer, inflammation, endocrine disease and antivirals and has contributed to the identification of multiple investigational new drugs and one registered medicine.