Mr Alastair Carrington

Founded over 20 years ago at the infancy of biotechnology, the BIA is the trade association for innovative enterprises involved in UK bioscience. Members include emerging and more established bioscience companies; pharmaceutical companies; academic, research and philanthropic organisations; and service providers to the bioscience sector.  The BIA represents the interests of its members to a broad section of stakeholders, from government and regulators to patient groups and the media. Our goal is to secure the UK's position as a global hub and as the best location for innovative research and commercialisation, enabling our world-leading research base to deliver healthcare solutions that can truly make a difference to people's lives. For further information, please go to www.bioindustry.org

Mr Alastair Carrington
BIA (UK BioIndustry Association)

Dr Karen Chandler-Smith

Founded over 20 years ago at the infancy of biotechnology, the BIA is the trade association for innovative enterprises involved in UK bioscience. Members include emerging and more established bioscience companies; pharmaceutical companies; academic, research and philanthropic organisations; and service providers to the bioscience sector.  The BIA represents the interests of its members to a broad section of stakeholders, from government and regulators to patient groups and the media. Our goal is to secure the UK's position as a global hub and as the best location for innovative research and commercialisation, enabling our world-leading research base to deliver healthcare solutions that can truly make a difference to people's lives. For further information, please go to www.bioindustry.org

Dr Karen Chandler-Smith
BIA (UK BioIndustry Association)

Dr Paul Clewlow

Sygnature Discovery is a leading United Kingdom-based provider of integrated drug discovery services to the global pharmaceutical industry. Key areas of expertise include medicinal and synthetic chemistry, computational chemistry and bioscience. Sygnature´s team of more than 50 industry-experienced scientists add considerable value to our clients´ programmes by undertaking key elements of the drug discovery process, such as hit finding, hit-to-lead, lead optimisation and complete integrated drug discovery projects.

Services on offer at Sygnature include:

  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Synthetic Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Bioscience (in vitro biology and screening)
  • Arrays and Libraries
  • Process and Scale-up Chemistry
  • ADME/Toxicology (via a strategic alliance with Cyprotex Discovery)
Dr Paul Clewlow
Sygnature Discovery

Mr Paul Cronin

Diamond Pharma Services is a leading technical and scientific consulting group serving the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Our emphasis is on the following areas:

  • Regulatory Affairs: From Product Concept to Registration and Beyond
  • Product Development: Nonclinical, CMC and Clinical Aspects
  • Pharmacovigilance: Clinical trial (Phase I-IV), Post-Marketing and QPPV Services
  • Compliance: GLP, GMP, GCP and QP Services
  • Patient Information Leaflet Testing: Over 120 Tested with 100% Positive Agency Feedback

Our clients range from virtual start-up companies to the largest multi-national corporations. Our expertise includes products of recombinant DNA and hybridoma technology, nucleotide based products (RNA and DNA), synthetic peptides, chemical entities (innovative and generic), vaccines (therapeutic and prophylactic), blood products and advanced therapy medicinal products (gene therapy products).

We have sophisticated and well-equipped office facilities and a state-of-the-art IT system. Our IT system includes a fully validated in-house eCTD system (Extedo) and safety database (ARISg). The company was founded in 2005 by Dr. Maureen Graham, formerly Director of Regulatory Affairs at Amgen. Our specialised team of more than 24 professionals includes those with a broad and varied industry experience and former regulators, offering both breadth and depth of expertise, from which our clients can benefit.

Diamond Pharma Services