ApconiX was delighted to hear that Dr Kimberly Rockley had received a EUROTOX Fellowship Grant to attend the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference in the USA this August. The Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity Conference “Integration of Emerging Technologies in Mechanistic and Translational Toxicology” runs from the 11th to the 16th of August and [...]
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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 most flexible automated patch clamp systems on the market today. The [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Paul Duffy recently spent some time with the Servier nonclinical safety team in Paris, hosted by Dr Nancy Claude, Director of Non-Clinical Safety at Servier and Patrick Genissel, Director Centre of Excellence Research & Biopharmacy, R & D VP. The discussions focused on science-led strategies to nonclinical development of new [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts, Co-founder and Director of ApconiX will be joining Rob Wallis and other eminent scientists in delivering training at the highly acclaimed course Practical Application of Toxicology in Drug Development. The course, co-organised by the British Toxicology Society and the American College of Toxicology will be held at The Møller Centre, Churchill College, [...]
Professor Ruth Roberts, Co-founder and Director of ApconiX will join Professor Paul Stott, Chief Executive Officer of Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services, Dr Steve McConchie, Chief Executive Officer of Aptus Clinical and Dr Matt Cooper, Business Development & Marketing Director of National Institute for Health Research to discuss “Collaborating Across the Value Chain to Translate Great [...]
Victoria Miller, a PhD student from the Drug Discovery Centre at the University of Sussex recently spent a few months working in the ApconiX ion channel laboratory as a part of her research. Her PhD project titled “Identification of Potent and Selective Inhibitors of the Epithelial Sodium Channel 𝛿”, was supervised by Professors Martin Gosling [...]
Dr Michael Morton will be attending the 30th Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Eastern England at Hatfield, United Kingdom on 2nd May 2019. This is a highly successful, long-standing, one-day annual meeting. To commemorate 30 years, the programme will focus on ‘Celebrating UK Drug Discovery’, highlighting success stories from large pharma, biotech and academia; and [...]
Dr Richard Knight, Dr Guy Healing, Professor Ruth Roberts, Phumzile Sikakana and Dr Karin Burnett thoroughly enjoyed the British Society of Toxicology Congress this week at Robinson College, University of Cambridge. Highlights of the meeting included a great opening keynote from Dr Stefan Platz (AstraZeneca) who shared his vision for the use of AI in [...]
British Toxicology Society (BTS) and the UK Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Congress “Celebrating 40 years of the BTS" will be held at Robinson College, University of Cambridge between 15th -17th of April. Professor Ruth Roberts, Dr Richard Knight, Dr Guy Healing and Phumzile Sikakana will all be attending. Ruth will be presented with an Honorary Fellowship [...]
