From academic roots…
ViaNautis was established in 2018 as SomaServe, a spin-off from UCL by founders Dr Francesca Crawford, Professor Guiseppe Battaglia and Dr Denis Cecchin.
…to a thriving biotech
ViaNautis is now a globally focused biotechnology company advancing its mission to create value through the development of genetic nanomedicines
Our Team
Dr Fran Crawford
Chief Executive Officer
Track record in founding and growing technology companies and BTB/BTC sales, network
Dr Denis Cecchin
Chief Technical Officer
Skilled in Translational research, research and development, and Business Development.
Dr. Samuel Barker
Chief Business Officer
Expertise in developing and commercialising innovative platform technologies.
Ben Stephens
Director of Finance
25 years’ experience at board level finance and operational roles in the Pharma and Industrial sectors.
Scientific Advisors
Board of Directors
Dr Fran Crawford
Chief Executive Officer
Track record in founding and growing technology companies and BTB/BTC sales, network
Steven Altschuler
Chairman
Steven Altschuler brings nearly 25 years of experience building and leading world-class, integrated, translational, value-based health care systems and transformational biotechnology companies.
Prof Giuseppe Battaglia
Chief Scientific Officer
Technology inventor and Professor of Molecular Bionics at IBEC in Barcelona
Join our team
We work hard to deliver innovative science and have a lot of fun along the way. If that is the environment that you are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.
Recruitment Agencies: please do not contact us. We operate a closed preferred supplier list that doesn’t allow agencies to register with us or send CVs to us. This is made up from carefully selected specialist scientific agencies, and we are not looking to add to our suppliers.
Investors
