Ivana Knyght

Ivana Knyght, MPharm, PhD, MBA, is Vice President, Global Life Sciences Industry Lead at Capgemini Invent. A molecular biophysicist by training (PhD in drug discovery, King's College London) and a practising UK pharmacist, she has spent twenty years at the intersection of physics, data and medicines. Early in her career she worked at the UK's national large-scale research facilities, Diamond Light Source and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, studying how physical forces govern the way molecules, including medicines, form. Later she turned to integrated R&D and regulatory innovation, leading AI adoption inside regulated R&D functions, with one aim: getting new medicines to patients sooner.