Speakers

Andy graduated from Churchill College Cambridge in 1980 with a first class degree in Natural Sciences and completed a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry before joining Glaxo as a medicinal chemist in 1983. He spent seven years at the Ware and Greenford sites working on CNS targets and then three years at the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina as the lead chemist on Cardiovascular projects.

Andy joined Pfizer in Sandwich in 1993 as a manager in the Medicinal Chemistry department. He became Therapeutic Area Lead for Cardiovascular and Neurodegeneration Research, and later on Tissue Repair managing a portfolio of projects up to First in Human. He had his first taste of process improvement at Glaxo building strong relationships with IT and operational groups and advancing a range of continuous improvement initiatives.

This interest blossomed over the years at Pfizer and in 2005, lead to him having global responsibilities for coordinating the continuous improvement of research processes and workflow. Andy gained a qualification as an Agile process facilitator during this period.

At the start of 2009 he became site lead at the Sandwich Site for External Research Solutions group, leading a multidisciplinary team focusing on optimising external research and in 2011 founded TRN – The Research Network Ltd, an associate network of drug discovery consultants focused on enabling drug discovery and development.

Expertise
Chemistry-Medicinal, CNS, CVMD, Dermatology, Pain, Small Molecule, UK, Neurodegeneration, Cardiovascular, Outsourcing, Drug Discovery Strategy, Drug Development Strategy, Funding, Networking, Team Building, Project leadership.

Presentation Title: Sourcing of New and Ad Hoc Services – Tools and Strategies to Find, Qualify, De-risk

Abstract: You’re only as good as your Team!

Fielding the right team at the right time is an ongoing challenge for the progression of drug discovery and development. Finding and effectively engaging the right scientific and management expertise to do the right thing and ensure continuity plus the right operational/service provider team to deliver effectively and a secure informatics/communication/policy framework to help the whole thing hum often have shortfalls.

This presentation explores available tools to help address these challenges and to maximise opportunities to build and enable your team building in part on the experience and learnings of TRN over the past decade.

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