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 [...]
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 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 [...]
At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, Dr Michael Morton of ApconiX will be giving a talk as part of the workshop "Can we panelize seizure?". On Wednesday March 13th 9:30am – 10:00am in the Convention Center Ballroom III. An Innovations in Applied [...]
At the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo from March 10th to 14th at the Baltimore Convention Center, poster presentation by Richard Printemps of PhysioStim on Tuesday March 12th 3:00pm - 4:30pm Poster Board P463 Convention Center Exhibition Hall. Incorporating the CiPA Paradigm into an Integrated Cardiac Risk Assessment. Authors: M. Morton1, R. Printemps2, M. [...]
ApconiX will be exhibiting on booth number 2610 at the Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo in Baltimore between 10th and 14th of March. Ruth Roberts, Richard Knight, Michael Morton, Jane Barber, Paul Duffy, Steffen Ernst and Marie Cumberbatch will be attending the conference. Jane, Paul and Mike are all speaking. Poster presentations [...]
Bethany joins ApconiX as a placement student for part of September. A second-year student, Bethany is studying Biomedical Sciences at Sheffield University. Her degree is a four-year sandwich course, with a third-year placement in industry. Bethany was unsure if a career in a laboratory was for her and wanted to be clearer before making her [...]
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 [...]
Katie joins ApconiX as a placement student for the month of July. Katie, a third-year student from Sheffield University studying Biomedical Sciences hopes to carry on with her studies and complete a master’s degree at Sheffield after graduation. Eager to gain experience of a real-world laboratory, Katie took her tutor’s advice and applied. Dr Stephen [...]
