David TewSenior Scientific Director, Enzyme Engineering and at Glaxosmithkline Medical Reseach CentreSpeaker
Profile
David Tew is a Senior Scientific Director at GSK. In 2018 David was appointed as The Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at Bristol University working with BrisSynBio and the Bristol Biodesign Institute. David held this position until 2022.
David has 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including early drug discovery, mechanistic enzymology, assay development, reagent generation and the application of Synthetic Biology. Most recently David has been leading a project to apply Synthetic Biology to redesign the manufacture of therapeutic oligonucleotides. This has resulted in a platform approach to therapeutic oligonucleotide synthesis and manufacture that is both scalable and more sustainable than current approaches.
Agenda Sessions
A Platform Approach to Manufacturing Single Stranded Oligonucleotides by Enzymatic Assembly
, 10:45amView Session