About Ruth Roberts

Professor Ruth A Roberts, PhD, ATS, FBTS, ERT, FRSB, FRCPath. A co-founder of ApconiX, Ruth has 25 years of experience in leading roles in drug safety within large pharma. Ruth is also Chair and Director of Drug Discovery at The University of Birmingham, UK and was previously Global Head of Regulatory Safety at AstraZeneca. With over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals, she is former president of the British Toxicology Society, former president of EUROTOX, former secretary to SOT and President of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Ruth was the recipient of the SOT Achievement award in 2002, the EUROTOX Bo Holmstedt Award in 2009 and the SOT Founders award in 2018 for outstanding leadership in toxicology. Ruth is an established science professional bringing rigorous expert thinking to toxicology, drug discovery and drug development.

An Integrated Approach for Early In Vitro Seizure Prediction Utilising hiPSC Neurons and Human Ion Channel Assays

An Integrated Approach for Early In Vitro Seizure Prediction Utilising hiPSC Neurons and Human Ion Channel Assays ApconiX are delighted with our recent publication in Toxicological Sciences where we presented our new data on our integrated approach to detecting seizure.  After 3 years of research, we launched the seizure [...]

By |2024-01-25T10:49:34+00:00September 26th, 2023|Company News, Publications|Comments Off on An Integrated Approach for Early In Vitro Seizure Prediction Utilising hiPSC Neurons and Human Ion Channel Assays

ApconiX Celebrates the Success of Two of Our Project Students

ApconiX Celebrates the Success of Two of Our Project Students ApconiX supervised two final year first degree students from the University of Birmingham this past academic year and caught up with them after their graduation.  Edward Withnall and Tahera Yasmin were both supervised by Dr Sean Hammond, Immunotoxicology Lead.  [...]

By |2023-10-20T10:31:10+01:00August 29th, 2023|Careers, Company News|Comments Off on ApconiX Celebrates the Success of Two of Our Project Students

ApconiX Welcomes Summer Placement Students

ApconiX Welcomes Summer Placement Students ApconiX is delighted to welcome three summer placement students, Josh Wright, Alex Stephenson and Jim Sidaway. Josh Wright Josh has just finished his first year at Nottingham Trent University where he is studying for a Business and Economics degree.  Wanting to learn more about [...]

By |2023-10-20T10:31:29+01:00August 24th, 2023|Careers, Company News|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Summer Placement Students

Drug Safety Forum – Making Safety Part of Drug Design

Making Safety Part of Drug Design ApconiX has organised a free to attend, one day symposium on drug discovery safety at Magdalene College, Cambridge on the 12th of October. Speakers from GSK, SEDA Pharmaceutical Development Services, AstraZeneca, MSD, ApconiX and Newcells Biotech will deliver a broad scope of thought-provoking [...]

By |2023-10-20T10:32:13+01:00August 9th, 2023|Events|Comments Off on Drug Safety Forum – Making Safety Part of Drug Design

ApconiX Is Offering an Industrial Immunotoxicology Research/Development Internship

ApconiX Is Offering an Industrial Immunotoxicology Research/Development Internship The closing date for this job vacancy has passed.  Please visit our Come and Join Us page for current vacancies.  If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to become part of our team please send your speculative CV to careers@apconix.com [...]

By |2023-10-20T10:33:43+01:00July 25th, 2023|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Offering an Industrial Immunotoxicology Research/Development Internship

ApconiX Is Recruiting Target Safety Biologists (Associate/Senior Scientist)

ApconiX Is Recruiting Target Safety Biologists (Associate /Senior Scientist) The closing date for this job vacancy has passed.  Please visit our Come and Join Us page for current vacancies.  If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to become part of our team please send your speculative CV to [...]

By |2023-10-20T10:34:36+01:00April 6th, 2023|Careers, Company News, Target Safety Assessments|Comments Off on ApconiX Is Recruiting Target Safety Biologists (Associate/Senior Scientist)

Chestnut’s Photo Diary

Chestnut's Adventures Captured Chestnut, the red squirrel, joined us in March 2023 and these are just some photos of their adventures... Chestnut in the snowy wilds of Cheshire... March 2023 Chestnut's first snowball fight... March 2023 Chestnut on the plane to Australia with Hannah Jennings... March [...]

By |2023-03-15T15:47:38+00:00March 14th, 2023|Company News|Comments Off on Chestnut’s Photo Diary

ApconiX Welcomes Catherine Savidge

ApconiX Welcomes Catherine Savidge ApconiX is delighted to welcome Catherine Savidge who joins the Acuity Target Safety Assessment team and will be working with Dr James Sidaway. Catherine recently graduated from the University of Newcastle and is on a 6-month placement with ApconiX. Academic Career Catherine studied both the [...]

By |2023-02-22T15:49:51+00:00February 22nd, 2023|Careers, Company News, Toxicology|Comments Off on ApconiX Welcomes Catherine Savidge

It’s Christmas (Twice in One Year – Amazing!)

It's Christmas and It's Actually in December for a Change! Christmas happened once already this year - in May but it was great to get everyone together at the right time at last.  And Christmas seems to have become a lot bigger but still as silly! ...Laurence's table... [...]

By |2023-12-19T09:09:33+00:00December 21st, 2022|Events|Comments Off on It’s Christmas (Twice in One Year – Amazing!)
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