Join us online on our virtual event platform for this networking event. This event will look at how the North West of England is emerging a centre for disease preparedness, and will have presentations from several organisations at the cutting edge of these developments:

• Evotec, a drug discovery solutions company providing expertise and capabilities to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as to academic institutions.

• Infex Therapeutics has been working for a number of years on anti-microbial resistance, and will share their experience on this fight.

• Yourgene was not intending to focus on infectious disease, but were able to pivot to using their technology for COVID-19 diagnostics. They will present on lessons learned during this process for the next infectious disease event.

The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Kath Mackay. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Finally, there will be a chance to network remotely using Remo, a platform designed to mimic in-person networking as closely as possible. 

15.00 Sign in and networking
15.15 BIA update
15:20 Bionow update
15:25 Welcome and update from Alderley Park
15:30 Presentations followed by panel discussion and Q&A
16:30 Networking

Speakers

• Peter Jackson, Executive Director, Infex Therapeutics

• Jo Mason, Chief Scientific Officer, Yourgene Health

• Pia Thommes, Vice President Anti-infectives, Evotec

• Kath Mackay, Managing Director, Bruntwood SciTech - Alderley Park