About Us
Strong industrial and scientific leadership
Founded in 2014, Edinburgh Molecular Imaging is a clinical phase biotechnology company focused on enabling image guided interventional medicine. The company’s molecular targetting technology has the potential to tackle disease in real-time to allow interventional procedures including surgery and therapy, providing more accurate treatment while sparing healthy tissue.
Management Team

Roy Davis
Chairman
Mr Davis is currently Chairman of Medica Group plc (the UK’s leading tele-radiology company).
He was formerly CEO of Optos Plc, a leading retinal imaging manufacturer from 2008 to 2015 until its sale to Nikon for $400 million in 2014; he continues to be an advisor to Nikon. Prior to this, Mr Davis was CEO of Gyrus Group plc, a leading medical device company focused on minimally invasive surgery and visualisation until it was acquired by Olympus in 2008 for approximately $2 billion.
Mr Davis has over 30 years of operational expertise and strategic consulting experience and holds a mechanical engineering degree, with honours, from Southampton University and an MBA from the London Business School.

Bernhard Sixt
CEO
Dr Sixt has 30 years of healthcare industry experience in the development and commercialisation of laboratory services, in vivo and in vitro diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals for industry leaders such as Amersham (now part of GE Healthcare) and Nycomed Pharma (now part of Takeda).
Since leaving Amersham, Bernhard has led several companies. He is a co‑founder of Agendia and served as its CEO from 2003 until 2011 and in 2005 founded Ipotuba, a pioneer for addressing the emerging need for pharmaceutical cryo-logistics. He also led ImmunID, an innovator in precision immuno-oncology, from 2013 until 2016.
Dr Sixt holds a Master of Science degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry from Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) and a PhD from the Technical University (TU), both in Munich, Germany

Julian Lord
CFO
Mr Lord has more than 15 years’ experience in the life science industry.
Before joining EM Imaging he was Group Financial Controller at Mereo BioPharma Group, working on establishing and growing the finance function and successful listings on AIM and NASDAQ.
Prior to Mereo, he was Head of Finance and Financial Controller at Immune Targeting Systems (ITS) Ltd from 2010 through to its merger with Vaxin Inc in 2015.
Mr Lord is also CFO for Caldan Therapeutics Ltd, a biotech company developing novel therapeutics targeting modulators of free fatty acid receptors for metabolic disease.
Mr Lord holds a BA (Hons) from Durham University and is a qualified management accountant (ACMA, CGMA).

Elizabeth Roper
Director
Dr. Roper has more than 15 years experience in the Life Science and Healthcare industry, primarily in venture capital fund management and industry Dr. Roper was involved in many key company strategic decisions and successfully established a number of major company-building alliances. She is a former executive with the Life Science venture capital team at the Investments Division of The Wellcome Trust. In this role, Dr. Roper provided direct early-stage equity financing to private companies in the Life Sciences industry in the US and Europe. Her investments included Fovea Pharmaceuticals, Nabriva Therapeutics and Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.
She is also a former member of the Life Science team at Atlas Ventures, London. Dr. Roper holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry (1st class) from the University College Cork, and a Ph.D. from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

About Us
EM Imaging was founded in 2014 to develop a versatile and disease focused approach to optical tracer and therapeutic compounds development.
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Ltd.
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9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter (Gate 3)
Edinburgh EH16 4UX
United Kingdom
Recent News
Results published by Investigator on identification and validation of MET as target for fluorescent guided surgery in papillary thyroid cancer
Results published by Investigator on first-in-human biodistribution and first PET imaging results of [Ga-68]EMP-100 in metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Results published by Investigator on Image-guided Surgery in Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging – 2021