In3Bio’s R&D centre is based in Scotland. We collaborate with leading academic institutions in Europe and with experts all of whom share the same passion for finding the next generation of treatments with an emphasis on tolerability and better quality of life for patients.
Our Opportunity
We are a clinical stage biotech company with a patented novel platform technology for immunotherapy in oncology that has been validated in pre-clinical studies and confirmed to be better in a clinical trial.
Using our patented platform technology, our goal is to develop the next generation of immunotherapy and targeted treatments in oncology therapeutics that:
- are effective as monotherapy or in combination with other approved therapies
- has a mild toxicity profile
- are able to modulate cancers from developing resistance to therapy
- focuses on providing a better quality of life during treatment
Our diversified novel therapeutics are projected to enter into the clinic in 2022.
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Molecule in
Phase I/II
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Molecule at manufacturing stage
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Molecules in advance development
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Cancer indications
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Approved drugs tested in combination with our lead molecule
In3Bio Team
Our commitment for creating meaningful treatment for patients is what sets us apart. We focus not only on survival benefit but also on a better quality of life. To learn more about the incredible In3Bio team, please have a look below.

Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Abu Bakar Suleiman
Abu Bakar became chairman of the group in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and completed his post-graduate training in Nephrology at Georgetown, University Hospital, Washington DC and Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne between 1975 and1976. He attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 1991 and became Director General of Health Malaysia from 1991 to 2001, before being appointed President of IMU in 2001 and Chairman of IHH Berhad in 2011.
Tan Sri Abu Bakar was the President, Malaysia Medical Association (1985), Master, Academy of Medicine Malaysia (1990-1998), Founding President, Malaysian Society of Nephrology, Founding President, Malaysian Society of Transplantation, President, Malaysian Health Informatics Information, President, Board of Governors, National Kidney Foundation, President, National Diabetes Institute, President, Association of Private Hospitals, Malaysia
Abu Bakar’s experience covers both public and private healthcare.

Johan Indot
Johan is the founder and major shareholder of the group (incorporated in 2002) He is an entrepreneur and his first business was a direct selling company that was eventually sold to a PLC. He is currently chairman of his family investment company that owns a finance business for motor vehicles. He has interest in oil and gas as well as a mobile solutions software company and serves on the board of these companies.
Johan assumed a full-time executive role in 2006, the position of Deputy Executive Chairman in 2017 and leads the management team.

Dr Erik D’Hondt
Erik joined the group in 2009 as Head of R&D and Regulatory Affairs. Erik is a highly experienced drug development executive who worked for 28 years at SmithKline Beechams (now GlaxoSmithKline) in biologics research and regulatory roles. He has expertise in vaccine development from bench to market and has prepared almost a dozen different viral vaccines at GSK.
More recently Erik was Vice President of Therapeutics at Europe’s Innogenetics (now Fujibio Europe) and he has consulted widely in Asia for institutes and biotech companies.
Erik was an advisor to WHO HQ Geneva on the Project: Preparedness of Asia for Pandemic Influenza at the time of the Flu H1N1 bird Influenza, 2006/2007.
Erik leads the R&D and regulatory activities at In3Bio. He has experience in managing two global Phase III clinical trials including approvals from the MHRA, PEI and FDA.

Michael Meister
Michael joined In3Bio in 2020 as Head of Technical Operations. He has a background in process development for biological API’s and project management.
He has almost 15 years of experience working in biopharmaceutical contract development/manufacturing organisations. Michael worked for close to 10 years in R&D for Fujifilm Diosynth (Teesside, UK) started from downstream process development to full technical project leadership, essentially becoming the technical interface that served the internal functions as well as external customers. During his recent career at Richter-Helm-Biologics (Hamburg, Germany), Michael was responsible for project/programme management and successfully delivered several key projects ranging from early pre-clinical process development to commercial production.
Michael holds a degree in Chemistry (university diploma) and a PhD in Biology, both from Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.

Shirley Chong
Shirley started her career as Tax Consultant with KPMG Tax Services Sdn Bhd for 6 years. She is a Chartered Accountant, member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants. She left KPMG in 2006 to join commercial industry in Finance & Accounts.
She joined Bioven in 2016 as Financial Controller and is based in the KL office.

Dr Lesley Pillans
Lesley is a Special Grade Doctor in Eating Disorders and practices in Aberdeen, Scotland. She had worked as Medical Advisor for Shell International BV at the Hague. She also worked in Malaysia as Clinical Research Officer at University Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Lesley Joined the group in 2012 and is the medical advisor to the Board
Partnership
We seek partnership for combined treatments with approved therapies and to address the limitations faced in Immuno-Oncology
The collaboration approach will :
- Reduce the development costs
- Identify potential commercial partners
With our R&D platform established through partnerships with academic and pharmaceutical companies, we are interested in partnerships that can offer :
- Design and evaluation of combination strategies
- Out-license opportunities for clinical development and commercialisation
