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Professor Ruth Roberts PhD, ATS, FBTS, ERT, FRSB, FR CPath
Director and Co-founder | ApconiX
Ruth is chair of drug discovery at Birmingham University, UK and Co-founder of ApconiX, an integrated toxicology and ion channel company that brings together a team of world-renowned nonclinical safety experts with over 300 years of drug discovery and development experience. Before that Ruth was Global Head of Regulatory Safety at AstraZeneca and Director of Toxicology for Aventis in Paris, France. With >150 publications in peer reviewed journals, she is interested in developing and implementing new models to increase success rates in drug discovery and development. Ruth is former president of EUROTOX, former past president of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and was recently elected to vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI), based in Washington, DC. She was the recipient of the SOT Achievement award in 2002, the EUROTOX Bo Holmstedt Award in 2009 and the SOT 2018 Founders award, given in recognition of outstanding leadership in fostering the role of toxicological sciences in safety decision making.
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