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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MDC celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science
To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are celebrating by highlighting some of the MDC and Lighthouse Lab women who play a vital part in making drug discovery happen. Ana-Maria Tomova – Bioscience lead Ana-Maria, who has a background in biomedical science and research, completed a PhD in Cell and Molecular […]
Meet Hervé Barjat – Bioinformatics (Tissue Image Analysis)
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in the Informatics department, and more specifically, I am part of the Bioinformatics team. We use informatic tools to gather as much information as we can about disease processes and medicines discovery. What’s your role within your team? My main focus […]
Meet Alessandra Gaeta – Syndicate Programme Director
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. For example, we have worked with the Cystic Fibrosis Trust to create the Cystic Fibrosis […]
Meet Michael Eyres – Post Doc Biomarkers
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work with the Biomarkers team, sat within Discovery – we look for markers of disease or treatment, treatment resistance and any other factor associated with drug discovery and clinical targets. What’s your role within your team? I initially started in January as […]