LAUSANNE, Switzerland & SAN DIEGO– HAYA Therapeutics, SA, a biotechnology company pioneering precision RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics for rare, common, and chronic diseases, announced that Dr. Richard Law has joined as Chief Business Officer. With more than two decades of experience in drug discovery and business development, Dr. Law brings tremendous expertise in creating biopharma partnerships, shepherding company growth, and securing life sciences funding.
“In recent months, HAYA has reached significant milestones with our regulatory genome RNA-guided platform, including the announcement of our collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company,” said Samir Ounzain, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of HAYA Therapeutics. “As we continue our rapid growth and expansion into new disease areas, Richard’s unparalleled expertise in investments and collaboration strategies at the intersection of biology and technology, in addition to company building, will help us form innovative partnerships and accelerate a broader reach for our programmable, disease-modifying therapeutics.”
Before joining HAYA, Dr. Law was Chief Business Officer of Exscientia, helping to lead the company’s merger with Recursion Pharmaceuticals last year. He was critical in driving Exscientia’s partnerships and M&A, including collaborations with multinational pharmaceutical companies, alongside corporate strategy, communications and investor relations. For over a decade, Dr. Law held key roles at Evotec, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he led biotech investment strategy, preclinical asset partnerships, and drug discovery collaborations. Previously, he was the company’s Global Head of Computational Chemistry. Dr. Law holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford as well as an MBA from Imperial College London.
“When I looked at HAYA, I saw a company that is not only the first to fully understand how to map these regulatory areas of the human genome to disease but is also successfully executing on creating new drug candidates with true potential to reverse complex common, chronic and age-related diseases, at the cell and tissue state level,” said Richard Law, Ph.D., CBO of HAYA Therapeutics. “HAYA’s pioneering platform has the potential to change how the whole industry thinks about the biology of disease and of drug discovery itself. I’m really thrilled to join Samir and the entire HAYA team as we look to bring this groundbreaking technology to patients.”
