Today is the last day of Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting & Expo 2019. It's been a fabulous few days in Baltimore with the ApconiX team meeting up with old friends and new. Brilliant talks by Dr Jane Barber, Dr Paul Duffy and Dr Michael Morton. "All the presentations were excellent. Lots of great [...]
Dr Michael Morton, Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Richard Knight flew to Sweden to celebrate the opening of ApconiX AB in Gothenburg by sharing coffee and cake (fika) with our fellow tenants in the BioVentureHub. Experienced toxicologists Drs Steffen Ernst and Björn Dahl, who are based at the new Swedish office, joined the three Directors [...]
At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, Dr Paul Duffy of ApconiX will be giving a talk as part of the Safety Assessment: Pharmaceutical—Drug Development I Platform on Wednesday March 13th 9:15am – 9:30am in Convention Center Room 321. New Opportunities for a Psychoactive Psilocybin in [...]
ApconiX will be exhibiting on booth number 2610 at the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo in Baltimore between 10th and 14th of March. Ruth Roberts, Richard Knight, Michael Morton, Jane Barber, Paul Duffy, Steffen Ernst and Marie Cumberbatch will be attending the conference. Jane, Paul and Mike are all speaking. Poster presentations [...]
ApconiX is excited to announce the opening of our new office in Sweden. The subsidiary ApconiX AB will be located at AstraZeneca’s BioVentureHub in Gothenburg. ApconiX was formed by Dr Richard Knight, Dr Michael Morton and Professor Ruth Roberts in 2015 and is based at Alderley Park in Cheshire, U.K. The co-founders have established a [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Steve Snyder to the team. Steve joins the nonclinical study monitoring team and is based in Florida in the United States. Having worked at Wyeth, Eli Lilly, McNeil Pharmaceutical and Charles River, Steve has a wealth of experience in preclinical toxicology as both an outsourcing customer and provider. He is [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Björn Dahl to the team, who joins our new Swedish office at AstraZeneca’s BioVentureHub in Gothenburg. Björn is a highly respected and experienced toxicologist, having been the co-chair of the European Federation Pharmaceutical Industry Association (EFPIA) Preclinical Development Expert Working Group and served as the EFPIA topic lead in [...]
The ApconiX team enjoyed a festive lunch at the Coach and Four in Wilmslow this Christmas. We'd all like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holidays, a Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Here's to making lots of better decisions in 2019!
Non-clinical contract research organisations (CROs) are an integral part of modern drug development. For any novel agent, delivery of GLP toxicity data to support clinical trials is a crucial step that requires a professional organisation with dedicated management, infrastructure and a broad array of technical and scientific skills. In selecting a CRO, the sponsor typically [...]
EUROTOX 2018 was a great success with many excellent sessions, posters and keynote lectures. There were more than 1400 attendees from >50 countries giving an outstanding opportunity for networking and learning. Highlights included the Merit award lecture from Sam Cohen (University of Nebraska) who talked about “Cell proliferation and carcinogenesis” and the HESI CITE lecture [...]
