Dr Benedetta Arno
Benedetta is an expert scientist, with over 10 years of research experience within academia and industry. She has experience in leading in vivo drug discovery projects, with the main focus on characterising complex medicines distribution and efficacy using a broad range of imaging modalities including PET, CT, optical imaging and ultrasound as well as ex […]
Dr Michael Fairclough
Michael has worked in the field of PET radiochemistry for over 15 years, obtaining his PhD in radiochemistry from the University of Manchester focussing on PET radiochemistry for the investigation of pain and inflammation. Michael also holds an honorary lecture position at the University of Manchester teaching basic and advanced PET radiochemistry theory for MSc […]
Robert Sherville-Payne
With a professional legal and compliance background and over 25 years of commercial experience, Robert brings significant expertise as a solicitor to his role as General Counsel and Company Secretary at Medicines Discovery Catapult. Having trained and worked at law firm Hogan Lovells in London, Robert spent 14 years at AstraZeneca in a range of […]
Dr Lauren Toms
Lauren is a Scientist in Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy (SMLM) with over six years’ of experience using and optimising super-resolution microscopy techniques. Lauren has a PhD from the University of Manchester, where she used advanced microscopy to investigate the ultrastructure of proteins in cardiac myocytes in health and heart failure. At Medicines Discovery Catapult, Lauren […]
Sinéad McCormack
Sinéad is a qualified accountant with 23 years of experience, holding senior positions in financial services and higher education with organisations including Barclays, Bank of England and the University of Manchester. Having started her career with Aspect Capital, AIG and Barclays, Sinéad then joined the Bank of England as Senior Manager of Financial of Control […]
Clare Atherton
Clare brings a plethora of HR experience gained throughout her career in the rail, retail, FMCG, science and technology sectors to her role as Chief People Officer at Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC). Having started her career within the Rail sector, Clare has held senior positions in private and public sector organisations – most recently with […]
Sue Wallcraft
Sue is a qualified English solicitor and has over 25 years’ experience of advising life sciences companies and charities. Most recently Sue was General Counsel and Company secretary at Vernalis plc, having previously held the same positions at the Wellcome Trust. Sue’s career also includes holding the position of Assistant General Counsel for Pfizer’s primary […]
Alistair Macdonald
Alistair is an Operating Partner with GHO Capital, and works as a Board member and Advisor to several organizations in the Pharmaceutical Service arena. Alistair was formally the Chief Executive Officer at Syneos Health and has over 20 years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and served as the Chair of the Association of Clinical Research […]
Graham Clarke
Graham holds a number of non-executive positions including: Non-Executive member of the Department of Health and Social Care (“DHSC”), sitting on its Audit & Risk Committee. Non-Executive Director of the NHS Health Research Authority (“HRA”), the regulator of human research in England and Wales. Chairman of the board at Herts Urgent Care, a Social Enterprise […]