University College London 2021 Flexible Talent Mobility Account
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Cell and Developmental Biology
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Geraint Thomas (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | Innovation Placement - Dr Sofia Oikonomidou with UCL School of Pharmacy |
| Organisation | Biosensors Beyond Borders Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of expertise in new methods of designing and manufacturing (3D printing) of micro needles for transdermal drug delivery through training of UCL technical staff and scientists . Enabled early prototyping and validation protocol development of company (BBB) micro needle devices. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UCL School of Pharmacy was able to bring in new expertise in bioengineering for transdermal drug delivery using microneedles. |
| Impact | A successful 3-month Innovation Placement. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Innovation Placement - Ms Ioanna Kourouzidou with Bit.bio Ltd |
| Organisation | Bit.Bio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided a Research Technician from academia as a Visiting Research Assistant to the company to phenotypically characterise three commercial cell products and to generate high resolution images for marketing and technical support to both the Cell Phenotyping and Commercial teams of the company. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There was a specific goal to expose an early career academic scientist to the processes of characterisation of muscle and neural cells using imaging and flow cytometry in a commercial environment within a wider team of scientists, The company provided exposure to the realities of stem cell-based research in the commercial environment and kick-started experiments for the academic partner lab. The UCL partner was also able to obtain relevant cells and cell lines from the host company for later use at UCL. |
| Impact | A successful 3-month Innovation Placement. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Innovation Placement - Ms Shehrazade Dahimene with Metrion Bioscience Ltd |
| Organisation | Metrion Biosciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Providing a research technician with specific skills in patch clamp electrophysiology to support the collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Dahimene was able to experience the full cycle of candidate drug compound evaluation in a commercial contract research environment. The company introduced the optimisation of transfection and eletrophysiological recordings of the channel by testing different concentrations of the reference agonist, assessment of the client compound using different concentrations and recording conditions and meetings the clients and report present and writing. |
| Impact | A successful 3-month Innovation Placement. |
| Start Year | 2023 |