Orchard Therapeutics PLC
Bobby is a world-renowned scientist and physician and accomplished strategic and organizational leader with more than 25 years of experience in medicine and biotechnology. As one of Orchard’s principal scientific founders, Bobby serves as chief executive officer of the company, and also sits on Orchard’s board of directors. Bobby has been a pioneer in gene therapy and the evolution of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) technology – including some of the first studies in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) – bringing it from some of the first studies in patients to potential regulatory approvals. His unparalleled expertise and deep relationships with key physicians and treatment centers around the world are integral to Orchard’s efforts to identify patients with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and other diseases through targeted disease education, early diagnosis and comprehensive newborn screening.
Bobby is a professor of pediatrics and immunology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and has led multiple clinical trials that have shown that gene therapy can successfully correct the genetic defect in immune deficiencies. He studied medicine and surgery at Kings College in London before completing his Ph.D. at the UCL Institute of Child Health.
Orchard Therapeutics PLC
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Orchard Therapeutics plc, formerly Orchard Rx Ltd, is a commercial-stage, fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company. It is engaged in manufacturing and commercialization of gene and cell therapies, position to provide transformative therapies to patients suffering from a range of rare diseases. The Company is focused on its autologous ex vivo gene therapy approach on three therapeutic rare disease franchise areas: primary immune deficiencies, neurometabolic disorders and hemoglobinopathies. Its portfolio includes Strimvelis, its commercial-stage gammaretroviral-based product for the treatment of ADA-SCID five lentiviral product candidates in clinical-stage development and several other product candidates in preclinical development. It is developing OTL-101 as an autologous ex vivo lentiviral gene therapy to sustainably treat patients with adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID) through a single administration.