About Richard Knight

Dr Richard Knight PhD, ERT. A co-founder of ApconiX, Richard is an expert toxicologist with more than 20 years of drug development experience gained in AstraZeneca, where he was part of the Drug Safety and Oncology Leadership Teams. Richard has worked on projects in multiple therapy areas involving small molecules, biologics, proteins and oligonucleotides. He has an in-depth understanding of drug discovery and drug development and has been directly involved in bringing over 35 new candidate drugs to clinical trials and 6 to marketing approval. He uses his extensive experience to bring an innovative, science-led and pragmatic approach to the design and delivery of nonclinical safety programmes.

DDTSS “Paper of the Year” Award Webinar

DDTSS “Paper of the Year” Award Webinar The Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section (DDTSS) DDTSS is hosting a webinar entitled “Species-specific urothelial toxicity with an anti-HIV noncatalytic site integrase inhibitor (NCINI) is related to unusual pH-dependent physicochemical changes" to present the work that was published in Toxicological Sciences and [...]

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ApconiX Wins the Queen’s Award for Enterprise

ApconiX Wins the Queen’s Award for Enterprise ApconiX is delighted to be honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.  Announced today (21st April) ApconiX has been recognised for its excellence in International Trade. ApconiX was founded by Dr Richard Knight, Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Michael Morton, ex-AstraZeneca colleagues [...]

By |2023-02-23T11:14:54+00:00April 21st, 2022|Company News|Comments Off on ApconiX Wins the Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Professor Ruth Roberts Receives the SOT Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section Paper of the Year Award for 2021

Professor Ruth Roberts Receives the SOT Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section Paper of the Year Award for 2021 The Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section of SOT has selected Professor Ruth Roberts as the recipient of their Paper of the Year Award for 2021. The Paper of the Year Award [...]

By |2022-08-22T14:51:57+01:00March 31st, 2022|Company News, Toxicology|Comments Off on Professor Ruth Roberts Receives the SOT Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section Paper of the Year Award for 2021

Professor Ruth Roberts Is the Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement 2022 Award Recipient

Professor Ruth Roberts Is the Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement 2022 Award Recipient Professor Ruth Roberts received the Academy of Toxicological Sciences’ Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement award for 2022. The Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement Award The Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement Award was established to honour the [...]

By |2022-09-21T12:35:24+01:00March 9th, 2022|Company News, Toxicology|Comments Off on Professor Ruth Roberts Is the Mildred S. Christian Career Achievement 2022 Award Recipient

ApconiX is Delighted to Welcome David Jones

ApconiX Welcomes David Jones ApconiX is delighted to welcome David Jones as a consultant toxicologist after a career spanning over 25 years at the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).  David is a European Registered Toxicologist and a Fellow of the British Toxicology Society as well as [...]

By |2022-02-21T15:07:23+00:00February 21st, 2022|Careers, Toxicology|Comments Off on ApconiX is Delighted to Welcome David Jones

Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Chair Dr Myrtle Davis at the Drug Safety Gordon Research Conference

Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Chair Dr Myrtle Davis at the Drug Safety Gordon Research Conference Professor Ruth Roberts, Director and Co-founder of ApconiX will be joining Dr Myrtle Davis, Scientific Vice President, Discovery Toxicology, Bristol Myers Squibb as Vice Chair of the at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) at [...]

By |2022-02-16T13:41:47+00:00February 16th, 2022|Careers, Events, Toxicology|Comments Off on Professor Ruth Roberts Joins Chair Dr Myrtle Davis at the Drug Safety Gordon Research Conference

ApconiX Is Recruiting a Project Toxicologist

ApconiX Is Recruiting a Project Toxicologist The closing date for this job vacancy has passed.  Please visit our Come and Join Us page for current vacancies.  If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to become part of our team please send your speculative CV to [...]

By |2022-03-01T10:29:04+00:00February 2nd, 2022|Careers, Toxicology|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting a Project Toxicologist

ApconiX Welcomes Peter Cotton

ApconiX Welcomes Peter Cotton ApconiX is delighted to welcome Peter Cotton who joins our group of toxicology specialists. Peter is a highly renowned clinical pathologist and haematologist with over 30 years of experience in big pharma.  Having managed the clinical pathology laboratory at AstraZeneca for many years, Peter has [...]

By |2021-12-15T13:47:00+00:00December 15th, 2021|Careers, Company News|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Peter Cotton

SOT 2022 – Continuous Education Course

SOT 2022 - Continuous Education Course Professor Ruth Roberts will be presenting at the SOT 2022 Continuous Education (CE) Programme Course in the session entitled ‘Safety Evaluation Strategies in Drug Discovery: From Target Assessment to Identification of Drug Candidates’.  This CE course will take a chronological look at drug [...]

By |2024-08-15T15:55:21+01:00December 8th, 2021|Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on SOT 2022 – Continuous Education Course

EUROTOX “Can We Panelize Seizure” Workshop

Join Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Michael Morton for EUROTOX Workshop EUROTOX 2021: EUROTOX 2021 Virtual Congress will take place between the 27th of September and the 1st of October. "Can We Panelize Seizure" Workshop This workshop will take place on Thursday 30th September at 1pm BST (British Summer [...]

By |2025-01-23T10:23:18+00:00September 22nd, 2021|Events|Comments Off on EUROTOX “Can We Panelize Seizure” Workshop
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