Career Details

Previous experience consists of assisting academic research as Research Technician at the University of Manchester with cell culture, hybridoma generation, immunofluorescence microscopy, TEM immuno-gold staining of virus-like particles, embedding and serial sections of cells and microorganisms. I also obtained an MRes studying centriole duplication and maturation.

I then worked for 15 years in the bio-therapeutic industry at Celltech/UCB and MRC Technology/Life Arc. I generated antibodies with hybridoma, phage display and selected B cells using ELISA based assays, liquid handling robotics and high-throughput screening. I used random and site-directed mutagenesis methods to generate affinity maturation libraries for selection by phage display.