SIMON PIMSTONE

Dr. Pimstone has served as a member of the Xenon Pharmaceuticals Board since November 1996, as the Chief Executive Officer since January 2003 and as the President from January 2003 to March 2018. Since 2012, Dr. Pimstone has been a Consultant Physician at the University of British Columbia Hospital, Cardiology Clinic, and since 2014, he has held the position of Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Division of General Internal Medicine.

Currently, Dr. Pimstone is an Investigator at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) research centre. Dr. Pimstone currently serves as chair of the board of Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc., TopiRx Pharmaceuticals, and Alpha9 Theranostics Inc., three private specialty pharmaceutical companies, where he has served as a director since 2012, 2019, and 2020 respectively.

Dr. Pimstone holds an MBChB from the University of Cape Town, a FRCPC from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in cardiovascular genetics. Previously, Dr. Pimstone was director and chair of the board of directors of LifeSciences British Columbia, a non-profit industry association that supports the life science community, and a former director of the Providence Healthcare Research Trust, BC Advantage Life Sciences Fund, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BIOTECanada, and BC Health Research Strategy Advisory Board of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.