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Mentoring Program

Accessing the experience of excellence

The Medicines Discovery Institute has worked with Dr Declan Jones, Honorary Innovation Fellow at Cardiff University to build a panel of industry veterans to act as a mentoring panel to support Early Career Researchers in drug development. Our mentoring panel has experience across a broad variety of roles in the pharmaceutical industry from initial target discovery and drug development through to commercial deal making. This program is making a difference to Cardiff University with one-to-one mentoring to our Investigators and knowledge transfer across the wider campus via seminars and symposia.

We want to thank our Mentors for their time spent with our Early Career Researchers and the Institute.

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Our Mentoring Team

Photo Declan Jones

Director Mentoring Program,

Formerly VP Ferring, J&J, GSK

Photo of Paul Beswick

VP, Chemistry and IP Bicycle Therapeutics

Photo of Richard Angell

Founder & Company Director 3C

Photo of Pam Brown

Head of Chemistry, Centauri Therapeutics Ltd; Dir Cantab Anti-infectives

Photo of Ian Churcher

Founder/CEO Janus, CSO Amphista Therapeutics, CSO OxStem

Photo of Rick Cousins

VP Drug Discovery, MitoRx Therapeutics, Akros Pharmaceuticals

Photo of Darren Green

Hon Professor, Chemistry, UCL Head Chemoinformatics GlaxoWellcome

Photo of Peter Maycox

Director, UK/Europe CNS, Takeda Visiting Prof UCL, Assoc Dir GSK

Photo of Carol Routledge

CMO/CSO Small Pharma Ltd, Dir Alzheimer’s Research UK

Photo of Nicola Wallis

Sen VP, Head of Biology Astex Pharmaceuticals

Photo of Ann Connolly

Founder A-Squared, Sen Dir J&J, Sen Dir UCB Pharma

Photo of Lee Dawson

SVP Neuroscience, Cerevance VP, Head of CNS Astex Pharmaceuticals

Photo of Julie Holder

Dir Mogrify, Study Manager Gyroscope, Head IPSC Innovation, Roslin Cell Mfg

Photo of Sonal Patel

VP, Oncology External Innovation, J&J, Sen Dir Roche pRED

Photo of Dave Smith

Principal Scientist, Open Innovation, Astra Zeneca

Photo of Jeannette Watson

Sen Dir Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Dir Operations/Board Member Cytomos

Cardiff University logo and Medicines Discovery Institute text in English and Welsh

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United Kingdom

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