CEB Alumni Speaker Series 2012
Thursday 24 May, 4 pm, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1
"Abcodia, the biomarker validation company"
Abcodia is a specialist company engaged in the validation and discovery of biomarkers linked to age related diseases. Our mission is to help every individual lead longer healthier lives. Abcodia is a spin out from University College London and was founded in 2011. Abcodia has an exclusive licence to a large serum biobank containing over 5 million samples collected during the UK Collaborative Trial in Ovarian Cancer Screening. Her talk will describe the utility of these samples in early diagnosis biomarker discovery and validation and progress at Abcodia to date.
Biography
Dr Wendy Alderton, Director of Science, Abcodia Ltd
Dr Alderton completed her PhD with Chris Lowe at the Institute of Biotechnology in 1993. She then spent 9 years at GlaxoWellcome in small molecule drug discovery including a project which delivered a compound into development. Wendy left GW to lead the Molecular Pharmacology group at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in the UK working in oncology small molecule projects. In 2003 she moved to PIramed a biotechnology company specialising in the PI3 kinase pathway, which was subsequently sold to Roche. In 2005 she became Head of Biology at DanioLabs, a company developing predictive in vivo safety and efficacy assays in zebrafish larvae. She worked in independent consultancy for 2 years before starting in Abcodia.
Alumni Speaker Series
This series of talks is an initiative suggested by our alumni for the benefit of Department alumni and current students, a venture run by alumni wanting to contribute a relevant talk to the Department. At the same time we would like to give alumni more opportunitites to visit the Department more regularly, reconnect with old friends and give current students and fellow alumni something of value. The talks will be followed by a networking session over drinks and nibbles so that our alumni get a chance to share experiences with our students and these learn some useful career tips from them.
The alumni speaker series was launched on Tuesday 27 October 2009 at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with a talk on 'Innovation, Governance and Capability' by alumnus Peter Davidson, Innovation Adviser in Government (BIS). His talk was complimented by many and has set up a wonderful model to follow for future talks.
Visit past talks to see the alumni who have previously contributed. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on the talks given and suggestions for topics for future talks. Whether you would like to share your views on this initiative, contribute a talk or register to attend please contact us on alumni@ceb.cam.ac.uk. We will be delighted to hear from you.
The talk dates in the 2011-2012 series are now confirmed:
Thursday 27 October 2011 - Dr Les Bolton (Advisor, Reaction Engineering, BP)
Thursday 24 November 2011 - Dr Anthony Hyde (Director ARCADIS UK)
Thursday 26 January 2012 - Dr Deborah Grubbe, Former VP - Group Safety, BP; Corporate Operations Director - DuPont Member, NASA Aerospace Advisory Panel
Thursday 23 February 2012 - Nigel Hirst, Haden Freeman Group Managing Director - The Chemical Engineer as Entrepreneur
Thursday 26 April 2012 - Dr Ben Harris (Lucite International Project Technical Manager)
Thursday 24 May 2012 - Dr Wendy Alderton (Director of Science, Abcodia)
Registration for alumni event
24 May 2012