Dr Michael Morton co-authored a paper recently published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. The paper should serve as a reminder that ion channels which may not be the focus of regulatory guidance or the latest CiPA initiative, still play a critical role in cardiac function, and shouldn’t be forgotten. TASK‐1 (K2P3.1) is a member [...]
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 [...]
Together with the promotion of non-animal testing, in vitro toxicogenomics (TGx) may play a vital role in the next generation risk assessment paradigm. A strategic shift in risk assessment provides an unprecedented opportunity for repositioning TGx in the regulatory setting. As the emerging technique continues to impact the TGx field, novel genomic features such as [...]
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 [...]
The ApconiX team would like to congratulate Dr Myrtle Davis for becoming Vice President-Elect of the Society of Toxicology. Dr Davis is an executive director at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she leads discovery toxicology in pharmaceutical candidate optimization to provide target and molecular hazard identification and risk assessments for issues identified in discovery research. She also [...]
The DMDG Symposium at Alderley Park was a great success. Organised by the teams from Sygnature, Alderley Park and ApconiX, over 120 delegates from around the country joined the symposium Dx Toxicology: Strategies for Success in Discovery and Development, focusing on asking the right questions at the right time around Target, Chemistry and Patient. Speakers [...]
Today is the last day of Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting & Expo 2019. It's been a fabulous few days in Baltimore with the ApconiX team meeting up with old friends and new. Brilliant talks by Dr Jane Barber, Dr Paul Duffy and Dr Michael Morton. "All the presentations were excellent. Lots of great [...]
Dr Michael Morton, Professor Ruth Roberts and Dr Richard Knight flew to Sweden to celebrate the opening of ApconiX AB in Gothenburg by sharing coffee and cake (fika) with our fellow tenants in the BioVentureHub. Experienced toxicologists Drs Steffen Ernst and Björn Dahl, who are based at the new Swedish office, joined the three Directors [...]
At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, poster presentation on Thursday 14th 8:30am - 11:30am Poster Board P372 Convention Center Exhibition Hall. Circulating Biomarkers of Neurotoxicity: Identifying Fluidic Endpoints Correlating with Central Nervous System Toxicity in a Rodent Model of Neurotoxicity. Authors: [...]
At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, poster presentation on Monday March 11th 10:45am - 12:15pm Poster Board P524 Convention Center Exhibition Hall sponsored by Professor Ruth Roberts. Real-Time Measurement of Drug Release Using Carbon Nanotube MEA System. Authors: N. Matsuda, A. Odawara, K. Ogawa, [...]
