Fusion Antibodies plc announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Kinkaid as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective 15 August 2022. Adrian Kinkaid is an experienced life sciences executive with 25 years' experience in life science and biotherapeutics industries. He joins Fusion from Vortex Liquid Biopsy Solutions Ltd. and Vortex Biosciences Inc. (together "Vortex"), a biotech group focused on world class technology for the isolation of high quality circulating tumour cells.

As CEO of Vortex, Adrian led the company's development, including management of its business units. Prior to joining Vortex, Adrian worked as CEO at several antibody-based diagnostics companies including BioFab Ltd, and Lumabs BV. He was formerly the Chief Commercial Officer for Promexus Ltd, a protein biotherapeutics company where he developed the corporate strategy for Therapeutic Affimers, culminating in amulti-target dealwith a potential of over $1bn.

Adrianwas previously Chief Business Officer of the Aptamer Group,and Strategic Market Development Leader for Abcam plc, the leading provider of research antibodies. Adrian has a PhD in Biochemistry and undertook postdoctoral research with the Institute of Cancer Research, London. As Chairman and founding member of the European Laboratory Research and Innovation Group, Adrian established their Drug Discovery event, which is now the leading conference of its kind in Europe.