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 Mölndal, 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 [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts was elected President of the Academy of Toxicology Sciences in June 2018 and holds the position until June 2019. She will be hosting the ATS Annual Business Meeting and Reception at SOT on Tuesday, March 12 where she will be presenting Dr William Slikker, Jr. with the 2019 Mildred Christian Award at [...]
ApconiX are delighted to learn that the BTS Executive Committee has elected Professor Ruth Roberts as Honorary Fellow of the British Toxicology Society (hon FBTS) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the science and profession of Toxicology, including to the BTS. Ruth commented “It’s such an honour to be recognised in this way by [...]
Phum graduated from the University of Sheffield this month with a master’s degree following research into “The role of the phosphoinositide (PI) 5-kinase PIKfyve in phagosome maturation and killing, using the amoeba and model phagocyte Dictyostelium discoideum”. It was brilliant to hear Phum had been awarded a distinction. Everyone at ApconiX says, “Well Done!”
ApconiX is very happy to sponsor the best MSc Toxicology Project prize at the University of Birmingham. This year’s winner was Christopher Cox. Chris was investigating the mechanisms of toxicity of ferro-nucleobases developed at Birmingham by James Tucker (Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry) in pancreatic ductal adenoma cell lines. (J. Med. Chem., 2014, 57 (13), pp [...]
ApconiX is happy to announce that Professor Ruth Roberts is on the SOT ballot for the position of Vice President-Elect. As Secretary to SOT, Ruth was the first non-US based Council member and now hopes to be the first non-US based President! ‘It’s a great honour to be asked to stand for election to lead [...]
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!
Drs Michael Morton and Richard Knight thoroughly enjoyed the Bionow 2018 Awards Dinner at the Mere Golf Resort & Spa, Cheshire on 29th November. The awards which recognise excellence, outstanding achievement and enterprise in a sector that is worth more than £13bn to the North’s economy, were sponsored by Manchester Science Partnerships, Alderley Park, Appleyard [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts was thrilled to be invited to speak at Business Insider’s recent Golden Triangle Breakfast Event at Alderley Park in the Northwest. The new golden triangle is part of a vision to take the Cheshire Science Corridor and create a golden triangle in the Northwest to rival the original golden triangle of Oxford, [...]
The Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) will host a live webinar with ApconiX's Dr Claire Sadler on ''Making safety a part of drug design" on 13th November 16.00-17.30 GMT. Claire is an expert discovery project toxicologist specialising in early project safety assessment and risk mitigation. In this webinar, she discusses the toxicological challenges and pitfalls [...]
