The Reductionist Approach The hERG assay has been a mainstay of safety screening in drug discovery for the last 2 decades. Aided by the development of high throughput automated technology, this important assay has brought unparalleled progress in our ability to design safer drugs without those properties that may lead to [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Priscilla Dumenu ApconiX is delighted to welcome Priscilla Dumenu for a 2-week placement. Priscilla will be working alongside Dr Michael Morton and Dr Karen Jones in the Ion Channel laboratory. Priscilla has just finished her second year studying Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. The 5-year integrated master’s degree [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Rosie Tennant ApconiX is delighted to welcome Rosie Tennant, who joins us for work experience this week. Rosie will be working with Dr Michael Morton and Dr Karen Jones in the ion channel laboratory. Rosie is in Year 12 at The Fallibroome Academy, a secondary and sixth form college [...]
Sophion’s Ion Channel Modulation Symposium Dr Michael Morton will be attending Sophion’s Ion Channel Modulation Symposium, on the 19th to 20th of June 2019, at Clare College in Cambridge, UK. Sophion was founded almost twenty years ago by a group of passionate electrophysiologists and offers the some of the [...]
ApconiX Joins the MDC’s Virtual R&D platform ApconiX has joined the Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Virtual R&D platform. This is a unique national network of consultants, private sector CROs, expert labs and public sector centres of excellence, providing medicines discovery expertise, services and virtual programme management. ApconiX specialises in ion [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Sushma Pabbineedi. ApconiX is delighted to welcome Sushma Pabbineedi for a placement during May. Sushma will be working alongside Dr Michael Morton and Dr Karen Jones in the ion channel laboratory. Sushma studied Biomedical Sciences and gained a bachelor’s degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. She took a [...]
K2p3.1 protein is expressed as a transmural gradient across the rat left ventricular free wall Dr Michael Morton co-authored a paper recently published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. The paper should serve as a reminder that ion channels which may not be the focus of regulatory guidance or [...]
SOT 58th Annual Meeting & ToxExpo - 2588: Talk by Dr Michael Morton of ApconiX At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, Dr Michael Morton of ApconiX will be giving a talk as part of the workshop [...]
SOT 58th Annual Meeting & ToxExpo - 2072: Poster Presentation by Richard Printemps of PhysioStim At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, poster presentation by Richard Printemps of PhysioStim on Tuesday March 12th 3:00pm - 4:30pm Poster [...]
ApconiX Welcomes Dr Steffen Ernst ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Steffen Ernst to our team, as the company begins its international expansion with the formation of its Swedish subsidiary, ApconiX AB. Steffen has worked in preclinical and clinical safety for over 20 years with Hoechst-Schering, Boehringer-Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, Pfizer [...]
