As co-founder (along with fellow co-founders; Professors Pedro Cutillas and John Gribben) and member of the executive team, helped to build Kinomica from small spin-out to fully operational and successful R&D company of >20 employees. Raised >£9M of private/public funding (from seed in 2019), including three Innovate UK Grants. Contributed to business strategy, team management, recruitment, technical leadership.Helped to secure and successfully deliver multiple research contracts… Show more As co-founder (along with fellow co-founders; Professors Pedro Cutillas and John Gribben) and member of the executive team, helped to build Kinomica from small spin-out to fully operational and successful R&D company of >20 employees. Raised >£9M of private/public funding (from seed in 2019), including three Innovate UK Grants. Contributed to business strategy, team management, recruitment, technical leadership.Helped to secure and successfully deliver multiple research contracts for pharma / biotech, by providing business development support, technical leadership, hands on assistance in the lab, data-analysis and report writing. Worked with colleagues and collaborators on in-house R&D projects developing new and applying advanced proteomic/phospho-proteomic LC-MS/MS technologies (e.g. KScan) to discover highly predictive multi-analyte biomarkers for multiple drugs across several cancers. Focused particularly on the translation of these technologies and biomarkers to improve cancer diagnostics and precision medicine. Obtained crucial support from clinical partners / key opinion leaders. Show less

Developed and applied LC-MS/MS proteomic approaches to investigate signalling networks in cancer cells and elucidate mechanisms of resistance to anti-cancer therapies. Specialised in the identification and validation of predictive biomarkers and drug targets to advance precision medicine. Focused particularly on development of label free LC-MS/MS based proteomics/phospho-proteomics as multi-biomarker/multi-companion diagnostic laboratory test for cancer biopsies (PBMCs and solid tissue), to… Show more Developed and applied LC-MS/MS proteomic approaches to investigate signalling networks in cancer cells and elucidate mechanisms of resistance to anti-cancer therapies. Specialised in the identification and validation of predictive biomarkers and drug targets to advance precision medicine. Focused particularly on development of label free LC-MS/MS based proteomics/phospho-proteomics as multi-biomarker/multi-companion diagnostic laboratory test for cancer biopsies (PBMCs and solid tissue), to inform the use of targeted and personalised anti-cancer therapies. Skills included; - nano-LC (e.g. Ultimate 3000 UHPLC, EASY-nLC™ 1000/1200)- tandem mass spectrometry (e.g. triple quads, ion traps, orbitraps)- sample preparation (e.g. cell culture, cell lysis, tissue pulverisation, immunoprecipitation, proteolytic digestion, label free, TMT, silac, phosphopeptide enrichment (TiO2, IMAC))- computational MS / proteomics software (e.g. XCalibur, Mascot Distiller, Mascot Daemon, Proteome Discoverer, MaxQuant)- biological interpretation of proteomics data / bioinformatics (e.g. DAVID Bioinformatics, Cell signalling pathway analysis, Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis) Show less

I developed quantitative proteomic assays and workflows to measure protein expression and post-translational modifications in pre-clinical and clinical specimens. Particular focus was on the development of SysQuant®, to measure activity status of cell signalling pathways. Used the following technologies and research tools; heavy isotope labelled peptide standards (AQUA peptide) for absolute protein quantification, Tandem mass tag (TMT®) reagents for relative quantification, Fe-NTA and TiO2 for… Show more I developed quantitative proteomic assays and workflows to measure protein expression and post-translational modifications in pre-clinical and clinical specimens. Particular focus was on the development of SysQuant®, to measure activity status of cell signalling pathways. Used the following technologies and research tools; heavy isotope labelled peptide standards (AQUA peptide) for absolute protein quantification, Tandem mass tag (TMT®) reagents for relative quantification, Fe-NTA and TiO2 for phosphopeptide enrichment, strong cation exchange, reverse phase nanoflow HPLC (EASY-nLC II & EASY-nLC 1000), TSQ Vantage triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometer, and the Orbitrap series of instruments including the Velos & Fusion, as well as several computational mass spectrometry software packages such as Pinpoint, Proteome Discoverer (Sequest+Mascot), PEAKS and MaxQuant.In addition to assay & workflow development for in house R&D projects, I managed many commercial projects. Show less