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.

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Kimberly Rockley.

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Kimberly Rockley. ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Kimberly Rockley.  Kim has a strong research background in oncology and will work with the team of experts in nonclinical safety and toxicology at ApconiX. Kim studied Biomedical Science and gained her bachelor’s degree and her master’s degree [...]

By |2022-08-17T10:32:58+01:00June 11th, 2019|Toxicology, Careers|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Dr Kimberly Rockley.

ApconiX Meet with the Servier Nonclinical Safety Team in Paris

ApconiX Meet with the Servier Nonclinical Safety Team in Paris Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Paul Duffy recently spent some time with the Servier nonclinical safety team in Paris, hosted by Dr Nancy Claude, Director of Non-Clinical Safety at Servier and Patrick Genissel, Director Centre of Excellence Research & [...]

By |2022-02-22T12:49:24+00:00May 26th, 2019|Toxicology, Events|Comments Off on ApconiX Meet with the Servier Nonclinical Safety Team in Paris

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Russell Huby to the Team.

ApconiX Welcomes Dr Russell Huby to the Team. ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Russell Huby to the team.  Russell joins the team of experts in nonclinical safety toxicology at ApconiX and will be primarily working in the area of target safety assessments. Russell graduated from the University of [...]

By |2022-02-22T12:53:49+00:00May 14th, 2019|Target Safety Assessments, Careers|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Dr Russell Huby to the Team.

Practical Application of Toxicology in Drug Development

Practical Application of Toxicology in Drug Development Professor Ruth Roberts, Co-founder and Director of ApconiX will be joining Rob Wallis and other eminent scientists in delivering training at the highly acclaimed course Practical Application of Toxicology in Drug Development.  The course, co-organised by the British Toxicology Society and the [...]

By |2022-05-12T13:56:45+01:00May 9th, 2019|Events, Toxicology|Comments Off on Practical Application of Toxicology in Drug Development

Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Bio Integrates Panel

Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Bio Integrates Panel Professor Ruth Roberts, Co-founder and Director of ApconiX will join Professor Paul Stott, Chief Executive Officer of Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services, Dr Steve McConchie, Chief Executive Officer of Aptus Clinical and Dr Matt Cooper, Business Development & Marketing Director of National Institute [...]

By |2022-02-22T13:00:05+00:00May 8th, 2019|Toxicology, Events|Comments Off on Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Bio Integrates Panel

Toxicological Sciences: From the Editor’s Desk, Editor’s Highlights

Toxicological Sciences: From the Editor's Desk, Editor's Highlights One of the recent Editor's Highlights in Toxicological Sciences was a paper by Peters et al., on GI Barrier and Drug-induced Diarrhea, reviewed by  Professor Ruth Roberts, an Associate Editor of Toxicological Sciences. As Ruth highlighted, attrition in drug discovery and [...]

By |2022-02-22T13:04:47+00:00April 24th, 2019|Toxicology, Publications|Comments Off on Toxicological Sciences: From the Editor’s Desk, Editor’s Highlights

British Toxicology Society Congress a Great Success

British Toxicology Society Congress a Great Success Dr Richard Knight, Dr Guy Healing, Professor Ruth Roberts, Phumzile Sikakana and Dr Karin Burnett thoroughly enjoyed the British Society of Toxicology Congress this week at Robinson College, University of Cambridge. Highlights of the meeting included a great opening keynote from Dr [...]

By |2022-07-13T15:05:18+01:00April 18th, 2019|Events, Toxicology|Comments Off on British Toxicology Society Congress a Great Success

Toxicogenomics: A 2020 Vision

Toxicogenomics: A 2020 Vision Together with the promotion of non-animal testing, in vitro toxicogenomics (TGx) may play a vital role in the next generation risk assessment paradigm. A strategic shift in risk assessment provides an unprecedented opportunity for repositioning TGx in the regulatory setting. As the emerging technique continues [...]

By |2022-02-22T13:19:17+00:00April 17th, 2019|Publications, Toxicology|Comments Off on Toxicogenomics: A 2020 Vision

ApconiX Attends British Toxicology Society Congress – “Celebrating 40 years of the BTS”.

ApconiX Attends British Toxicology Society Congress - "Celebrating 40 years of the BTS". British Toxicology Society (BTS) and the UK Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Congress “Celebrating 40 years of the BTS" will be held at Robinson College, University of Cambridge between 15th -17th of April. Professor Ruth Roberts, Dr Richard [...]

By |2022-07-13T15:14:26+01:00April 14th, 2019|Toxicology, Events|Comments Off on ApconiX Attends British Toxicology Society Congress – “Celebrating 40 years of the BTS”.

Congratulations to Dr Myrtle Davis

Congratulations to Dr Myrtle Davis The ApconiX team would like to congratulate Dr Myrtle Davis for becoming Vice President-Elect of the Society of Toxicology. Dr Davis is an executive director at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she leads discovery toxicology in pharmaceutical candidate optimization to provide target and molecular hazard identification [...]

By |2022-03-01T12:03:53+00:00March 27th, 2019|Events|Comments Off on Congratulations to Dr Myrtle Davis
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