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Dr. King is a pharmaceutical professional with over 16 years of drug discovery and development experience (Janssen R&D/Johnson & Johnson; SmithKLine Beecham). With experience ranging from early drug discovery and preclinical/translational sciences. Dr King gained his B.Sc. from the University of Leicester, UK, in Biological Sciences in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2000, from the University of Liverpool, UK. After 2 years of postdoctoral training, Dr King joined Janssen Pharmaceuticals in 2002 at the Beerse site in Belgium, as a Scientist and Senior Scientist, in the Metabolic Disorders and Oncology Teams. He led the preclinical oncology in vivo team, where he contributed to numerous NME declarations and IND filings. As part of the Oncology Biomarkers Team, he was responsible for the Ex Vivo Center of Excellence for humanized model development. In 2012, Dr King joined the Molecular Imaging Team at the Janssen Spring House site in USA and lead the imaging program to support the Oncology Therapeutic Area.