About Ruth Roberts

Professor Ruth A Roberts, PhD, ATS, FBTS, ERT, FRSB, FRCPath. A co-founder of ApconiX, Ruth has 25 years of experience in leading roles in drug safety within large pharma. Ruth is also Chair and Director of Drug Discovery at The University of Birmingham, UK and was previously Global Head of Regulatory Safety at AstraZeneca. With over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals, she is former president of the British Toxicology Society, former president of EUROTOX, former secretary to SOT and President of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Ruth was the recipient of the SOT Achievement award in 2002, the EUROTOX Bo Holmstedt Award in 2009 and the SOT Founders award in 2018 for outstanding leadership in toxicology. Ruth is an established science professional bringing rigorous expert thinking to toxicology, drug discovery and drug development.

In Conversation with Dr Emma Bishop

In Conversation with Dr Emma Bishop We've been speaking with Dr Emma Bishop, a Senior Scientist in the immunotoxicology team at ApconiX. Emma updates us on her latest projects and research, as well as giving us some insight on her career development so far. So, I have it on [...]

By |2026-09-15T12:12:20+01:00September 15th, 2026|Careers, Company News, Press|Comments Off on In Conversation with Dr Emma Bishop

ApconiX Is Recruiting a Senior Safety Scientist

ApconiX Is Recruiting a  Senior Safety Scientist An Exciting Opportunity to join ApconiX as a Senior Safety Scientist The Role The Safety Science Group at ApconiX harnesses state-of-the-art informatics to interrogate global databases and scientific literature to identify potential safety risks linked to drug target modulation and the development [...]

By |2026-08-24T14:59:16+01:00August 24th, 2026|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting a Senior Safety Scientist

ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist (Senior Scientist)

ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist (Senior Scientist) The Challenge: Immune safety issues are one of the major reasons drugs fail and have been the cause of some of the most infamous drug failures. The prediction, mitigation and management of immunotoxicological issues is therefore an [...]

By |2026-08-19T19:09:09+01:00August 18th, 2026|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist (Senior Scientist)

ApconiX is Honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation 2025

ApconiX is Honoured with a King's Award for Enterprise for Innovation ApconiX is delighted to announce that we have been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation 2025. ApconiX was founded by Professor Ruth Roberts, Dr Michael Morton and Dr Richard Knight, colleagues with the drive and [...]

By |2025-05-27T14:08:02+01:00May 6th, 2025|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX is Honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation 2025

ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist

ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist The closing date for this job vacancy has passed.  Please visit our Come and Join Us page for current vacancies.  If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to become part of our team please send your speculative CV to careers@apconix.comThe closing date for [...]

By |2025-03-12T12:00:37+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting an Immunotoxicologist

ApconiX Welcomes Lindsey Talecki

ApconiX Welcomes Lindsey Talecki ApconiX is delighted to welcome Lindsey Talecki who is joining the Safety Science team as a Principal Scientist and will be working with Dr James Sidaway to conduct Acuity Target Safety Assessments (TSAs) and to further enhance ApconiX’s investigative toxicology function. Academic Career Lindsey Ingleby [...]

By |2025-03-25T16:11:11+00:00January 14th, 2025|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Lindsey Talecki

ApconiX Is Recruiting a Data Scientist

ApconiX Is Recruiting a Data Scientist The closing date for this job vacancy has passed.  Please visit our Come and Join Us page for current vacancies.  If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to become part of our team please send your speculative CV to careers@apconix.com ApconiX are [...]

By |2025-02-25T11:52:51+00:00January 7th, 2025|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting a Data Scientist

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Hannah Dixon

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Hannah Dixon ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Hannah Dixon who joins the Safety Science team and will be working with Dr Nicholas Coltman within the data science group.  A native speaker of Spanish and Catalan, Hannah is a dedicated bioinformatician who will apply her advanced [...]

By |2025-01-13T10:10:20+00:00July 16th, 2024|Careers, Company News, Toxicology|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Dr Hannah Dixon

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Aina Mogas Barcons

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Aina Mogas Barcons ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Aina Mogas Barcons who joins the Safety Science team and will be working on target safety assessments with Dr Helen Garside.  Aina is a PhD neuroscientist with a strong background in neurodegenerative diseases.  A native speaker of [...]

By |2024-07-30T09:40:03+01:00July 16th, 2024|Careers, Company News, Toxicology|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Dr Aina Mogas Barcons
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