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 [...]
ApconiX and PhysioStim will be celebrating their first year of The European Centre of Excellence for preclinical cardiovascular electrophysiology at the Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting in Washington this September. ApconiX will be supporting PhysioStim as they exhibit at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on Stand 412 from the 30th of September to the 3rd [...]
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 [...]
Dr Michael Morton will be speaking at EUROTOX this September in Belgium. On Tuesday September 4th at 16:30 in Hall 100 Mike will address ‘Cardiac safety: current state of the art’ chaired by Dr Mark Holbrook of VAST Pharma solutions and Ester Lovsin-Barle from Lonza. Mike will present ‘Ion channel profiling of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes: [...]
Dr Paul Duffy will be speaking at EUROTOX this September. On Monday 3rd of September at 16:30 in the SILVER Hall Paul will address “Old drugs in new guises: the toxicology of repurposing” chaired and introduced by Ruth Roberts and Dr Miranda Cornet from UCB in Belgium. Paul will present case studies to illustrate the [...]
Dr Michael Morton, Professor Ruth Roberts, Dr Richard Knight and Dr Paul Duffy will be attending EUROTOX this September in Brussels. The theme for 2018 is “Toxicology Out of the Box” and reflects the federation’s willingness and enthusiasm to offer an innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme. ‘"The theme for EUROTOX aligns perfectly with our [...]
The official photographs are out to show that it was all smiles in San Antonio earlier this year when I received the 2018 Society of Toxicology (SOT) founders award. I was proud to be presented with the plaque by my good friend and colleague, Leigh Ann Burns Naas. Dr Burns Naas is SOT President as [...]
Ruth Roberts (ApconiX) and Emma Walker (Kings College London) attended the Royal Society of Biology President's Dinner May 2nd 2018 where they chatted with Stephen Benn about the great work he does as Vice-President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and for the Society as their Director of Parliamentary Affairs. Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow succeeded [...]
