Meet Sarah Brockbank – Lead Scientist
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in Virtual R&D team. Our remit is to support clients drug discovery projects by reviewing their project plans and data, challenging it, and providing proposals to take them to the next stage. We also work closely with external experts within our […]
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 Joanne Hartley – Senior Scientist – Biosamples
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work on samples with Helen Hind, which is part of our Discovery team. The team’s remit is to help companies locate and access clinical samples for use in their research. What’s your role within your team? I support many of the team’s […]
Meet Helen Hind – Biosamples Lead
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I lead the Samples capability which is part of our Discovery team. Our remit is to support SMEs in accessing clinical samples, which they often require to progress their R&D assets. Based on previous feedback we’ve received from the UK life sciences sector, […]
Meet Rachel Lawless – Grants Officer
Which team do you work in and what does that team do? I work in the Grants team – our role is to provide funding help and guidance to our business partners. This includes scoping out grant opportunities, helping with grant writing, and connecting partners who can compliment each other to ensure projects are run […]
Meet Charlie Bury – Cheminformatics Data Scientist
Which team do you work in, and what does that team do? I work in the Cheminformatics team, headed by Dr Andrew Pannifer. Our team is primarily focused on supporting the UK SME drug discovery community, through the development of AI and statistical approaches in order to better leverage the chemical and biological data to […]
Meet Kepa Burusco-Goni – Molecular Science Informatician
Tell us a bit about the team you work in? I work in the Cheminformatics team; there’s four of us – Anna, Charlie and Andrew. We mainly work in the cheminformatics field, but also cover areas of bioinformatics and molecular modelling. We use ligand- and structure-based drug design approaches, molecular descriptors, databases, artificial intelligence plus […]
Meet Anna Pallo – Cheminformatician
Which team do you work in and what’s your role in this team? I work in the Cheminformatics Team lead by Andrew Pannifer. We take large chemical databases and apply data science to them to answer questions about drug-design. Currently, I’m working on an exciting project with clinical trials and patent data as part of […]
Meet Dr Andrew Pannifer – Head of Cheminformatics
What team do you work in, and what does this team do? I work in the Cheminformatics team with Anna, Charlie, and Kepa. The role of our team is to use the massive amounts of chemical, biochemical, protein, and chemical structural data out there to help answer questions that drug discovery organisations encounter: Are there […]