Biography
Dr. Simon Moroney is one of MorphoSys’ co-founders. He studied chemistry in his native New Zealand, and was a Commonwealth Scholar to the University of Oxford, where he completed a D. Phil in Chemistry in 1984. Prior to co-founding MorphoSys in 1992, Dr. Moroney held positions at the University of Cambridge, U.K., at the University of British Columbia, Canada and in the Chemistry Department of the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Subsequently he was an Associate in the Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A. and an employee of ImmunoGen Inc., where he worked on the development of antibody-based cancer drugs.
In 2002, Dr. Moroney was awarded the German Cross of the Order of Merit for his services to the biotechnology industry.