Philip Beer

Chief Scientific Officer Step Pharma

Philip Beer is a physician scientist, cancer biologist and oncology drug developer. He started his professional career as a haematologist with over 16 years frontline healthcare experience including clinical haemato-oncology, pathology and molecular diagnostics. This was followed by 8 years in academic research in Cambridge, UK and Vancouver, Canada, focussed on the development of improved cancer models. For the last 11 years, Philip has worked in the oncology biopharma sector, focussed on biomarker discovery and early phase oncology drug development, leading scientific and clinical development of small molecule and antibody programmes. In addition to his biopharma roles, Philip sits on a molecular tumour board for patients who have exhausted standard of care therapies, and supports biomarker development projects through membership of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas, and as the Chair of the Genomics Working Group at BIVDA, The British In Vitro Diagnostic Association.

Seminars

Tuesday 31st March 2026
Interrogating Publicly Available Datasets for Biomarker Discovery & Prioritisation
2:30 pm
  • Presenting a worked example of how data from human cell lines and primary tumours can be leveraged to identify biomarker of response to a compound currently in clinical development
  • Discussing biomarker complexity as a consideration for clinical development
Philip Beer Speaker at 16th World Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit Europe