Christopher Penny Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

San Francisco, California, United States

• Healthcare-focused Project Leader in the San Francisco office of BCG, transferred from London in June 2022 as part of BCG's Global Ambassador Scheme
• Experience in global health and biopharma R&D sectors, with a focus on strategy design & operationalization, execution of transformations, analytics, and operating model design
• Led operational strategy design & execution for COVAX's dose sharing mechanism, coordinating across stakeholders across multiple organizations incl. the White House, WHO, Gavi, Unicef & others
• Led transformation of R&D function at major vaccines biopharma company, co-delivering ~$70m of savings
• Designed operating models & KPIs for new global health organization
• Supported many further strategy & implementation projects across the biopharma R&D and global health sectors

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London

• Invited to become the lead researcher for a prestigious Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust Fellow
• Combined multidisciplinary techniques in a novel way to understand how learning causes brain cells to restructure, with a view to probing how this is dysfunctional in neurological diseases
• Co-authored 2 papers, incl. one review as first author

London, United Kingdom

• Led interdisciplinary research leading to eight peer-reviewed publications, with seven as first author, receiving ~300 total citations as of August 2023.
• Research combined techniques from disparate fields (chemical, structural, cell & computational biology) to provide new insights on the structure, function and pharmacology of lysosomal two-pore channels (TPCs), a.
• Directed four collaborations (inc. two international) that included a publication in the prestigious Nature journal Scientific Reports
• Invited to presented to over 200 scientists an international conference
• Extensive teaching experience from demonstrating at >40 undergraduate laboratory classes; also organised UCL Young Life Scientists Symposium 2016

London, United Kingdom

• 3 month internship with the publishers of Clinical Science and the Biochemical Journal, amongst others, followed by freelance editorial services contract.Responsibilities:
• Critically analysed the performance of competitor journals in contrast with Portland Press' portfolio
• Identified under-represented topics and recommended setting up a new journal, now launched as Neuronal Signalling
• Updated the journals' communication and outreach strategies
• Conducted reviews of editorial outcomes and proposed changes to editorial processes
• Reviewed the composition of the editorial board and proposed additional members

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

• Undertook a Graduate Scheme in Supply Chain ManagementResponsibilities included:
• Defining and modernizing contract management governance processes
• Providing vendor analysis for procurement of new reactor control rods
• Actively managing contracts and contractors during outage at Torness Power Station
• Supporting the management of a transition between VMI suppliers

Oxford, United Kingdom

One of 8 university departmental medical research interns appointed in the summer of my first year at university. Worked as part of a vaccinology team as a lab assistant for the Oxford malaria vaccine trials.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Molecular Cell Biology

Thesis title: Molecular Physiology of Two-pore Channels (see above)

Bachelor'S Degree, Physiological Sciences, 2:1

Activities and Societies: • Exeter College Ball President • Junior Common Room (JCR) Secretary & Information Officer • JCR LGBT RepFinal.

Education record

A Levels Maths (A), Biology (A), Physics (A)