Team / Dr. Tim Hickling

Tim Hickling, PhD

Principal Consultant & Immunosafety Lead

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Tim Hickling, PhD

Principal Consultant

Immunogenicity Experience

Senior immunogenicity and immunosafety leader with over 20 years of experience spanning academia, large pharma, and consulting.

Deep expertise in immunogenicity risk assessment, measurement, and mitigation across biologics, gene therapies, vaccines, and advanced medicinal products. Proven leader in building and scaling immunogenicity functions, driving portfolio-level strategy, and supporting IND-enabling and clinical development programs globally.

  • Immunosafety and in vitro safety assessment
  • Biologics, mAbs, bispecifics, peptides, gene therapy, vaccines
  • IND and first-in-human (FIH) risk assessment
  • In vitro, in vivo, and QSP immunogenicity tools

Past Experience

My career has spanned multiple leadership roles in pharmaceutical development across large pharma and academia:

  • Immunogenicity Expert Scientist / Investigative Safety Lead at Roche
  • Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer
  • Lecturer in Virology at University of Nottingham

Education

  • PhD, Immunology - University of Oxford

Selected Publications

Therapeutic outcomes, assessments, risk factors and mitigation efforts of immunogenicity of therapeutic protein products.

Yin L, Chen X, Vicini P, Rup B, Hickling TP.

Cellular Immunology, 2015

Nonclinical immunogenicity risk assessment of therapeutic proteins.

Tourdot S, Hickling TP.

Bioanalysis, 2019

A mechanistic, multiscale mathematical model of immunogenicity for therapeutic proteins.

Chen X, Hickling TP, Vicini P.

CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, 2014

How I Work

I provide strategic and project-level guidance for biologics and advanced medicinal product development with a focus on immunogenicity risk assessment, measurement, and mitigation.

I advise companies on building fit-for-purpose immunogenicity strategies across discovery, preclinical, and clinical development, and have unique expertise developing immunogenicity Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) models.

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