Phumzile Sikakana Graduates Phum graduated from the University of Sheffield this month with a master’s degree following research into “The role of the phosphoinositide (PI) 5-kinase PIKfyve in phagosome maturation and killing, using the amoeba and model phagocyte Dictyostelium discoideum”. It was brilliant to hear Phum had been awarded [...]
ApconiX Awards Prize for Best Toxicology Project ApconiX is very happy to sponsor the best MSc Toxicology Project prize at the University of Birmingham. This year’s winner was Christopher Cox. Chris was investigating the mechanisms of toxicity of ferro-nucleobases developed at Birmingham by James Tucker (Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry) [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts on SOT Ballot ApconiX is happy to announce that Professor Ruth Roberts is on the SOT ballot for the position of Vice President-Elect. As Secretary to SOT, Ruth was the first non-US based Council member and now hopes to be the first non-US based President! ‘It’s [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Dr Karin Burnett to The Team ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Karin Burnett, an experienced project toxicologist with a broad knowledge of toxicology and chemical risk assessment in the pharmaceutical industry. Karin will join the team of experts in nonclinical safety toxicology at ApconiX, who cover all [...]
Highlight Article for Experimental Biology and Medicine “Drug discovery and development: Biomarkers of neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration”, co-authored by Abigail L Walker, Syed Z Imam and Ruth A Roberts, has been selected as a highlight article for Experimental Biology and Medicine’s 243:13 issue. As a result of this designation it [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Phumzile Sikakana to The Team ApconiX is delighted to welcome Phumzile Sikakana who joins us straight from University. Phum, an enthusiastic new master's graduate will work with our team of experienced scientists on a variety of projects, including target safety reviews and in the ion channel screening [...]
Insider Breakfast Golden Triangle Breakfast Event Professor Ruth Roberts was thrilled to be invited to speak at Business Insider’s recent Golden Triangle Breakfast Event at Alderley Park in the Northwest. The new golden triangle is part of a vision to take the Cheshire Science Corridor and create a golden [...]
Making Safety a Part of Drug Design The Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) will host a live webinar with ApconiX's Dr Claire Sadler on ''Making safety a part of drug design" on 13th November 16.00-17.30 GMT. Claire is an expert discovery project toxicologist specialising in early project safety assessment [...]
Target Safety Reports: What's in a Name? Irrespective of what we call them, target safety reports form a key part of risk assessment and risk mitigation plans in drug discovery and development. Why is that? Well, target-related toxicity accounts for >50% of all drug project failures (Cook et al., [...]
Collaboration and competition: ethics in toxicology What are our attitudes to research resourcing, publication and the peer review system? The British Toxicology Society (BTS) is conducting a survey to establish attitudes of toxicologists to key questions such as ‘I believe collaboration to be important in driving toxicology research in [...]
