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Chief Medical Officer at AstraZeneca
About John Evans
In 2021, John Evans led AstraZeneca’s pivotal pivot to biomarker-stratified trial designs in oncology, replacing broad patient cohorts with genetically defined subpopulations across eight Phase III studies, accelerating median time-to-first-patient-enrolment by 47%. His insistence on embedding real-world evidence loops into protocol development, not as an afterthought but as a co-primary endpoint, reshaped how the MHRA evaluates accelerated approvals. Raised in Sheffield and trained at St Bartholomew’s, he carries a clinician’s impatience with siloed data: his team built the first internal ‘clinical-data mesh’ linking EHRs, wearables, and central lab APIs without compromising GDPR-compliant audit trails. He doesn’t speak of AI as disruption but as delegation, freeing physicians from documentation drag so they can interpret nuance that algorithms still miss. His annual 'Medical Strategy Review' isn’t a PowerPoint deck; it’s a live-coded simulation where regulatory pathways, health economics models, and trial feasibility metrics evolve in real time against shifting NHS commissioning rules.
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