Renos Savva Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Support and develop strategic partnerships between Discovery Park and Discovery Park Ventures, with key stakeholders in business, healthcare, R&D, entrepreneurship and investment.Convene and oversee programmes and trainings for startup founders at pre- and proto-commercial stages of inception as well as operationally active businesses.Consider at a scientific diligence and analytical level, startup investment potential for consideration by Discovery Park Ventures and aligned partners.Networking and conference coverage on behalf of Discovery Park and Discovery Park Ventures.Co-development and collaboration on events with strategically aligned partners.Interface with company founders and boards for consideration of occupancy and delivery goals involving Discovery Park as an operational site.Advises and mentors founders and boards by mutual agreement aligned to the above remit.

Sandwich, England, United Kingdom

Discovery Park is a unique robustly environmental and efficiency conscious science park located in Sandwich, part of the East of England’s life sciences cluster, with close links to London, Stevenage and Cambridge.Discovery Park is a home of innovation, attracting companies large and small to its vibrant environment and user-specified facilities, including high-spec laboratories and incubators, Barclays Eagle Labs and Discovery Park Ventures. As Head of Innovation, my role includes identifying, supporting and empowering entrepreneurially minded scientists to achieve their potential in a supportive business and tech ready environment based in an area where high quality work-life balance is fully within reach of our clients.I input on building our networks, events and trainings amongst a strong and motivated team with a client support ethos.

London, United Kingdom

Research team leader in Recombinant Molecular and Synthetic Biology, with a focus on Virus proteins, Protein Evolution, DNA modulating proteins, DNA mimetic proteins, and Structural Biology of macromolecular interactions.Core member of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology [ISMB].Core member of the Centre for Innovation Management Research [CIMR].Programme Director MSc Bio-business at Birkbeck and Module Organiser for its modules: The Bio Industry, Future Health Technologies, The Entrepreneurship Process, and Bio-business Project.Chair of the Industry, internships and impact committee for the BBSRC LIDo doctoral training programmes headquartered at UCL, 2017-2020.Lead academic on iCURE cohort 26 team ‘Robophage’ led by LIDo doctoral graduate Hugo Villanueva - recipients of offer to fund from Innovate UK.Chair of Sub-Board of Examiners for undergraduate degrees in the Department of Biological Sciences.Postgraduate careers facilitator via mentoring and annual events.

London, England, United Kingdom

HEA University teaching accreditation.Lecturer, module designer and convenor (undergraduate life sciences).Programme designer, initiated MSc Bio-business at Birkbeck. Design and delivery of 3 of 8 modules for both Bio-business, BBSRC LIDo and MRC-DTP doctoral training programmes for UCL and partner colleges including Birkbeck, and dissertation convenor. Personal tutor to MSc Bio-business cohort.Core member of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology [ISMB].Core member of the Centre for Innovation Management Research [CIMR].Research projects in bioinformatics and molecular virology: Molecular biology, recombinant protein biochemistry, x-ray crystallography, principal research investigator and group leader. Supervising postdoctoral and postgraduate scientists from Birkbeck and UCL, and hosting undergraduates from the US (through the AES internship program) and Canada (University of Alberta, Edmonton - Biochemistry internships).

London, England, United Kingdom

Initiate independent research. Establish research remit. Molecular biology, recombinant protein biochemistry, x-ray crystallography, bioinformatics.Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students including primary doctoral supervisor.Supervisor of postdoctoral research associates.Inventor of Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology.

London, England, United Kingdom

Inventor Combinatorial Domain Hunting (CDH) technology, 1999.Co-development of CDH technology IP for patent protection, filed 2001.Co-founder Domainex, Ltd., 2001, and Research Director 2002-2008. Principal scientist for parallel commercial research team and BBSRC translational research team.Spin-out to LBIC (2007) and laboratory provision ; consultant scientist until 2010.Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 (London First), Best enabling biotech of the year 2007 (DTI award).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Structural Biology, Awarded

An industrial CASE studentship funded by SERC and The Wellcome Foundation, based at UCL with placement research at the industrial lab.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc (Hons), Biochemistry, 2:1 (Hons)

A general UK biochemistry degree, at what was then North East London Polytechnic, graduating with the institute renamed as Polytechnic.