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Maria Thompson

Maria Thompson, PhD has a background in molecular genetics and over 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical and diagnostics research and development. She has held a variety of roles including Head of Genome Wide Screening for Type 2 diabetes, Six Sigma Black Belt, and VP of Scientific Affairs. Dr. Thompson is a Principal Consultant at APEX Think, a private consulting company providing scientific and technical advisory services to clients across the life science industry. Dr. Thompson holds a BSc in Genetics and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry from the Royal London School of Medicine, UK.
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Sep 24, 2013

Looking back on papers published in high profile journals over the years, the path to publication has become ever more involved. The number of...

Sep 16, 2013

Core labs at academic institutes lower the barrier to expensive technology and give people access to techniques outside their field of expertise...

Sep 10, 2013

Targeted based drug discovery has been a mainstay of pharmaceutical pipelines for the last 20 years. Identifying and validating novel drug...

Sep 3, 2013

Steve Blank wrote an excellent 3 part blog series last week. We covered Part 1 which described the challenges Life Science companies face in...

Aug 29, 2013

In a recent case study by Scientist, Joe Payne told us of this rule of thumb. “If you need the compound in 3 hours, make it in house; 3 days...

Aug 27, 2013

Interesting news for those thinking about personalized medicine and drug development: children born to mothers after bariatric gastrointestinal...

Aug 22, 2013

Life science companies are known to be one of the most expensive and difficult to start up. We look for an answer as to why in an excellent article...

Aug 19, 2013

This month Drug Discovery News published Dr. Kevin Lustig’s editorial discussing how outsourcing is a viable strategy for advancing oncology...

Aug 7, 2013

If you’re looking to outsource research services, you invariably will come to the decision to keep it local or not. With the growth of the contract...

Aug 1, 2013

Almost weekly in the news there is an article about a new scientific breakthrough and how animal models were instrumental in making this discovery...