Toxicological Sciences: From the Editor's Desk, Editor's Highlights One of the recent Editor's Highlights in Toxicological Sciences was a paper by Peters et al., on GI Barrier and Drug-induced Diarrhea, reviewed by Professor Ruth Roberts, an Associate Editor of Toxicological Sciences. As Ruth highlighted, attrition in drug discovery and [...]
K2p3.1 protein is expressed as a transmural gradient across the rat left ventricular free wall 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 [...]
British Toxicology Society Congress a Great Success 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 [...]
Toxicogenomics: A 2020 Vision 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 [...]
ApconiX Attends British Toxicology Society Congress - "Celebrating 40 years of the BTS". 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 [...]
Congratulations to Dr Myrtle Davis 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 [...]
Successful DMDG Symposium at Alderley Park 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 [...]
ApconiX at SOT 2019 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 [...]
ApconiX Celebrates Opening Swedish Office 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 [...]
SOT 58th Annual Meeting & ToxExpo - 3575: a Late Breaking Poster Presentation 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 [...]
