ApconiX is delighted to welcome William O'Brien as their new Finance Director. William has a strong background in high-tech development management and corporate finance. William is the founder of WOCO, a specialist R&D tax and financial advisory business based at Alderley Park, Cheshire. A seasoned leader, he previously worked across a wide range of industries [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Rosie Tennant, who joins us for work experience this week. Rosie will be working with Dr Michael Morton and Dr Karen Jones in the ion channel laboratory. Rosie is in Year 12 at The Fallibroome Academy, a secondary and sixth form college in Macclesfield. Studying A level biology, chemistry and [...]
There are few of us who have not been touched by cancer in one way or another and many of us know family and friends that have been helped or are being supported by Macmillan Cancer Support. Macmillan Cancer Support is here to help everyone with cancer to live life as fully as they can [...]
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 [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Kimberly Rockley. Kim has a strong research background in oncology and will work with the team of experts in nonclinical safety and toxicology at ApconiX. Kim studied Biomedical Science and gained her bachelor’s degree and her master’s degree in Cancer Pharmacology at the University of Bradford, graduating with distinction. [...]
ApconiX has joined the Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Virtual R&D platform. This is a unique national network of consultants, private sector CROs, expert labs and public sector centres of excellence, providing medicines discovery expertise, services and virtual programme management. ApconiX specialises in ion channel biology, target safety assessments and in all aspects of nonclinical programme design [...]
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 [...]
Phumzile Sikakana graduated from the University of Sheffield in January this year and was awarded a distinction in her master’s degree. Phum joined ApconiX in November last year and here reflects on her first 6 months with the company. "I was a recent biomedical science graduate when I joined ApconiX. I was really happy to [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Dr Russell Huby to the team. Russell joins the team of experts in nonclinical safety toxicology at ApconiX and will be primarily working in the area of target safety assessments. Russell graduated from the University of Oxford with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry before going on to gain a PhD [...]
ApconiX is delighted to welcome Sushma Pabbineedi for a placement during May. Sushma will be working alongside Dr Michael Morton and Dr Karen Jones in the ion channel laboratory. Sushma studied Biomedical Sciences and gained a bachelor’s degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. She took a gap year working at the AQA examination board in Manchester [...]
