Jonathan Tobin
Partner Brandon Biocapital
Jonathan is a Partner at Brandon’s London office and serves on the boards of Pheon, Myricx Pharma, NRG Therapeutics, AstronautX, Salvina, and Catalym. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Arix Bioscience, where he built the team and portfolio, sitting on boards including Artios Pharma and VelosBio (acquired by Merck for $2.75bn). Before Arix, Jonathan was a Principal at Touchstone Innovations, helping build biotech spin-outs like Inivata (acquired for $415m). He also worked at LifeArc in drug discovery.
Jonathan holds a first-class Biology degree from Oxford, a PhD in Molecular Medicine from UCL, and an MBA from Imperial College London. He conducted postdoctoral research on cancer cell signalling at Cancer Research UK, publishing in Nature Genetics and NEJM. He is a trustee of the Autism Centre for Excellence and advises KHAN drug discovery fund.
Seminars
As the ADC field matures beyond the large-scale pharma M&A deal-making from 2024, there continues to be a stream of licensing and partnerships activity as the community looks to leverage novel science and technologies to develop the next generation of targeted oncology therapies. Further driven by an increasingly crowded landscape and heightened need to develop differentiated ADCs, the bar has been raised to develop novel ADCs that will be backed by life science investors and attract the attention of pharma and biotech collaborators.
Exclusively designed for search and evaluation, external evaluation, and business development leads, C level biotech leaders, and VC biopharma investors, the ADC Licensing, Partnering & Investment Panel is the place to be to understand diverse perspectives on what ADC innovation is showing most promise, how best to balance novelty versus risk to investors, and biopharma decision-maker attitudes when evaluating ADC deal-making opportunities in 2026.
Open to all registered attendees, join to be part of an insightful panel session followed by an informal networking opportunity to foster new relationships for ADC collaboration, partnerships and investment.
Panel Discussion Highlights:
- Contextualising the current state of investment and deal-making in the ADC field: What direction if the field headed as it crests the Topo1 wave?
- Breaking down different avenues for ADC differentiation to understand what is showing promise and predict where the ADC field will be in 3-5 years
- Delving into investor perspectives to help set up ADC companies in Series A funding for success
- Understanding pharma and biotech attitudes towards required data, level of risk, and differentiating factor when deciding which ADC programmes to explore licensing and partnering
- Debating the factors contributing towards the go/no-go decision in the clinic to move towards licensing and partnership conversations
