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Developing a 3D in vitro proximal tubule model for chronic toxicity studies
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Covid-19 Action Plan – 2021 Update
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Improved in vitro renal tubular drug transport modelling to meet regulatory and development cost challenges
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Child retinal dystrophy
BY Newcells Biotech
September 2, 2019
Blog

Vision for the Future of Childhood Retinal Dystrophies

The retina is the means through which most people primarily perceive the world and for children particularly, visual defects can affect educational, social and emotional development.1 The importance of retinal disease, in

BY Newcells Biotech
November 9, 2018
Blog

ESTIV 2018 International Congress

Congress Round-Up The International Congress on in vitro Toxicology (ESTIV2018) organised by the European Society of Toxicology was held in Berlin this October 2018.  This year marks its 20th meeting, with the general theme of new approach methodologies

BY Newcells Biotech
September 17, 2018
Blog

Retinal Organoids: Mini Organs Add a New Dimension to our Understanding of the Eye

Retinal organoids are becoming a powerful tool in the process of drug discovery, as recently shown by researchers at Newcells Biotech and Newcastle University in a study led by Professor Majlinda Lako

BY Newcells Biotech
July 11, 2018July 11, 2018
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22nd North American ISSX Meeting – Montréal, Canada (15th-19th July)

Dr Colin Brown will be presenting two posters at 22nd North American Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics.

BY Newcells Biotech
July 4, 2018July 4, 2018
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Newcells Biotech Secures £2M Investment from NVM Private Equity and Northstar Ventures to Accelerate hiPSC Growth

Newcells Biotech has secured a £2 million investment from NVM Private Equity and Northstar Ventures to support its ambitious growth plans.

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Dr Mike Nicholds

Chief Executive Officer

Mike is Chief Executive Officer of Newcells Biotech and has an extensive commercial track record working in the biotechnology industry.
A microbiologist by training, he started his career working for ICI looking at a range of biotechnology approaches to making chemicals, polymers and food products. He worked for Zeneca (now AstraZeneca) in a range of commercial roles, leading business groups and providing contract manufacturing and development services to pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies around the world.
His experience includes senior executive and board level positions with Avecia and Chirex, including VP sales and marketing, and strategy & acquisitions director. He has been involved with several start-up companies in biotechnology over many years and has an in-depth expertise of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.

Prof Lyle Armstrong

Chief Scientific Officer

Professor Armstrong studied chemistry at the Universities of Sheffield and Northumbria and was awarded a PhD in physical organic chemistry in 1992.
As an outcome of his PhD research into the chemistry of fluorescent molecules, he founded a contract research organisation developing and licensing diagnostic systems to identify and enumerate bacteria in biological fluids. This organisation was successful in generating a range of products that were subsequently licensed to industry and marketed as microbial diagnostic tools.
Prof Armstrong’s highly respected research group is focussed on reprogramming cells to hiPSCs and developing organoid and other complex models of human tissues. A key aspect of this investigation is researching the possible reversal of ageing during the reprogramming process and how this might be valuable for repairing organ damage or treating human diseases using iPSCs.

Dr Colin Brown

Director of Admet Technology

Dr Colin Brown is a leading expert in kidney transport, with research interests in renal, hepatic and GI drug transporters.
He has developed and commercialised (through Newcells Biotech Ltd) a primary cell based assay for measuring kidney transport and toxicity.
The assay has been used in a range of study protocols globally with pharma and other industries to investigate drug transport, drug-drug interaction and nephrotoxicity.

Dr Sandy Primrose

Non-Executive Director

Alongside his non-executive director (NXD) role at Newcells Biotech , Sandy Primrose is also NXD at Arquer Diagnostics and is actively engaged with a number of early stage companies.
Sandy is the senior partner at Business and Technology Management, a biotechnology and healthcare consultancy practice. Previously, Sandy was an academic at Warwick University and then held posts as Senior Director of Drug Development at Searle Research and Development and then managed the Life Science business of Amersham International (now part of GE).

After that he held senior management positions in a number of early stage companies as well as serving on the board of the Microbiological Research Authority (a Special Health Authority) and then the Health Protection Agency.

Dr Frank Armstrong

Dr Armstrong has held Chief Executive roles with five biopharma companies (both public and private) including FulcrumPharma PLC (AIM) and CuraGen (NASDAQ). He led Medical Science and Innovation at Merck Serono and was previously Executive Vice President of Product Development at Bayer and Senior Vice President of Medical Research and Communications at Zeneca.
Dr Armstrong is currently the Chairman of Summit Therapeutics (AIM and NASDAQ), Faron Pharmaceuticals (AIM) and Caldan Therapeutics. He is a member of the Senior Advisory Board at HealthCare Royalty Partners and an SAB Member at Epidarex Capital. Dr Armstrong is a Member of the Court of the University of Edinburgh. Dr Armstrong is a physician and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh).

Tim Levett

Tim is the chairman for Chairman at NVM Private Equity LLP, responsible for investor relations and represents NVM on the board of several companies including Newcells Biotech. He is also a non-executive director of Northern Venture Trust PLC and Northern 3 VCT PLC.

He is twice winner of the prestigious BVCA Deal of the Year award. Prior to NVM, he spent several years in senior management with companies such as Shell UK and International Paints before becoming general manager of Tremco.

In Tim’s early career he was an officer in the Royal Navy.

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