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 [...]
Dr Michael Morton, Professor Ruth Roberts, Dr Richard Knight and Dr Paul Duffy will be attending EUROTOX this September in Brussels. The theme for 2018 is “Toxicology Out of the Box” and reflects the federation’s willingness and enthusiasm to offer an innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme. ‘"The theme for EUROTOX aligns perfectly with our [...]
Ruth Roberts and Emma Walker were featured on the front cover of Toxicology Research this month. The mother and daughter’s review article, Collaboration and competition: ethics in toxicology hit the headlines in Volume 7. The front cover was painted by Emma, an accomplished artist as well as scientist. Emma is currently studying for her Master’s [...]
Abstract: How can small-to-medium pharma and biotech companies enhance the chances of running a successful drug project and maximise the return on a limited number of assets? Having a full appreciation of the safety risks associated with proposed drug targets is a crucial element in understanding the unwanted side-effects that might stop a project [...]
