Andrew Hopkins

CEO
Exscientia plc

Andrew Hopkins, DPhil is the Founder and CEO of Exscientia. He is one of the most distinguished and cited scientists in modern drug discovery. After more than a decade at Pfizer, Andrew was drawn to academia to pursue pioneering research projects applying data mining and machine learning to the pharmaceutical industry. His invention of an automated and algorithmic approach to drug design and discovery led to the founding of Exscientia. Since its founding, the Exscientia team has grown to more than 300 employees with offices around the world and has delivered the world’s first three AI-designed drugs into the clinic.

Following Exscientia’s successful listing on Nasdaq in October 2021, Andrew’s focus as CEO is a patient-first mission to accelerate the creation of the best possible medicines with improved probability of success using AI methods to select targets, precision design new drugs and enhance patient selection.

Andrew holds a first class BSc in Chemistry from the University of Manchester and a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics from Wadham College, Oxford. He is also an honorary professor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, where he previously held Chairs in translational biology and medicinal informatics.