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Meet Duygu Yilmaz – Senior Scientist

Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in the Target Engagement & Validation team – our goal is to help companies develop better drug molecules that have meaningful effects in the clinic. We design experiments to demonstrate that a drug molecule engages with its molecular target and affects […]

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Meet Marc Daigneault – Head of Research Funding

Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in the Business Engagement team – we act as the interface between Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) and industry, academia, and small businesses. We are selling our services and building collaborations, establishing relationships. What’s your role within your team? Grants and access […]

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Defining Complex Medicines

This is a guest post by Claire Patterson at Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services. In recent decades there has been a huge increase in the diversification of drug targets and active moieties (synthetic molecules, biologics, and combinations such as antibody drug conjugates) within the drug development field which has led to the development of new, complex […]

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Meet Ria Horsley – Automation Scientist (Lighthouse)

In 50 words or less, what do you do at MDC-Lighthouse Lab? I have recently moved from the position Bioscience Lead to become part of the automation team as an automation scientist. I have the main responsibility of maintaining and troubleshooting the Hamilton machines. Soon we will also be taking the Kingfishers and PCR machines […]

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Meet Samantha McCoy – Bioscience Lead (Lighthouse)

In 50 words or less, what do you do at MDC-Lighthouse Lab? I am a bioscience lead for shift group 2. My role involves managing individual labs, in particular the Hamilton labs. I am the Hamilton super-trainer for my shift group and have trained a very large number of lab scientists to operate the Hamiltons. […]

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Meet Ian Dunlop – Head of Software Engineering

Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in software engineering; it sits within Informatics. I see it as the glue that holds all the things that informatics builds together. What’s your role within your team? I am the Head of Software Engineering – I try to keep things […]

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Meet Sarah George – Chief of Staff (Lighthouse)

In 50 words or less, what do you do at MDC-Lighthouse Lab? I am the Chief of Staff at the Lighthouse Lab and part of the Leadership Team for the Lab. It is a really varied role, with particular focus on our people, communications, governance and planning for the future. What is your scientific training/career […]

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Meet Beverley Isherwood – Programme Manager (Hearing Medicines Discovery Syndicate)

Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in the Syndicates Team – we work with UK medical research charities to create disease-focussed medicines discovery consortia, ‘Syndicates’, that address patient unmet needs, through collaboration. What’s your role within your team? I am a Programme Manager – I am responsible […]

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Meet Matt Burnham – Lead Scientist

Which team do you work in and what does that team do? The Target and Pathway Engagement team within the wider Discovery team. We look at the early stages of drug discovery. People are trying to understand what can be a fairly novel compound, and how that compound actually interacts with its target under different […]

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