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.

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|Toxicology, Careers|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|Toxicology, Careers, Events|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|Toxicology, Careers|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|Company News, Careers|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 |2021-12-08T14:08:15+00:00December 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 |2022-06-21T09:56:51+01:00September 22nd, 2021|Events|Comments Off on EUROTOX “Can We Panelize Seizure” Workshop

Professor Ruth Roberts’ ToxSpotlight Author Profile

Professor Ruth Roberts Is Profiled as Article Chosen for September Issue ToxSpotlight The Article: Ruth A Roberts, Richard A Campbell, Phumzile Sikakana, Claire Sadler, Mark Osier, Yili Xu, Joy Y Feng, Michael Mitchell, Roman Sakowicz, Anne Chester, Eric Paoli, Jianhong Wang, Leigh Ann Burns-Naas, Species-Specific Urothelial Toxicity With an [...]

By |2021-09-23T11:00:11+01:00September 22nd, 2021|Company News|Comments Off on Professor Ruth Roberts’ ToxSpotlight Author Profile

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone Today, last year, the ApconiX team were in a pub in Wilmslow enjoying a Christmas dinner.  Sadly, this year we couldn’t but we still had a whale of a time on Teams. Phumzile Sikakana organised a cracker of a get together [...]

By |2022-09-21T12:37:32+01:00December 18th, 2020|Events|Comments Off on Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone

Dr Laurence Bishop Attends Bio-Europe Digital 2020

Dr Laurence Bishop Attends Bio-Europe Digital 2020 Dr Laurence Bishop is attending Bio-Europe Digital 2020 from the 26th to the 29th of October. Dr Michael Morton and Dr Richard Knight joined the UK delegation at The UK Pavilion at BIO-Europe last year.  ApconiX benefited from a Tradeshow Access Programme [...]

By |2022-09-21T14:21:50+01:00October 21st, 2020|Events|Comments Off on Dr Laurence Bishop Attends Bio-Europe Digital 2020
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