Kevin Read
Head of Dmpk @University Of Dundee
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Dmpk @University Of Dundee
I started my career in 1989 as a DMPK scientist with Huntingdon Research centre gaining experience in the use of radionuclides in drug metabolism studies and carrying out ADME and PK studies in pre-clinical species in support of various drug development projects. In 1992 I joined the DMPK division in Glaxo Group Research in the UK, gaining extensive experience in drug discovery programme support. In 2001, I moved from GlaxoSmithKline UK to Verona, Italy as a senior research leader to support Psychiatry drug discovery programmes. Here, I had management responsibility for up to 19 staff and was a drug discovery project leader or deputy project leader on a number of lead optimisation programmes. In January 2008, I moved to the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, to build a DMPK group from the ground up. I now have a team of 20 DMPK scientists with extensive Biopharma DMPK experience. I have also led the development within the DDU of key rodent models of disease for the kinetoplastid diseases; Human African trypanosomiasis, Visceral Leishmaniasis and Chagas’ disease. My group has all the skills and tools necessary to ensure that only those molecules with appropriate developability to deliver the required target product profile will progress toward candidate nomination. I am on the DDU management team and have been since joining the DDU in 2008 and I am also on the board for our Wellcome Centre that was awarded in 2017. I have helped grow the DDU from approximately 20 scientists to now over 130 scientists delivering a fully integrated drug discovery engine embedded in Academia. I have brought in, and continue to bring in, substantial funding to the DDU from sources such as Wellcome and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and currently I am a lead investigator on a number of active grants. I have strong fully integrated collaborations with a number of major Pharma companies.
EDUCATION
King's College London
PhD
Coventry University
Bsc (hons)
SKILLS
ABOUT KEVIN READ
A dynamic and internationally oriented R&D professional, bringing a background in drug…
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