Lorna Suckling

With 15+ years experience in drug discovery, Lorna has worked in both academia and industry with a focus on high-throughput screening and laboratory automation. A biologist by training, she completed her PhD in Cancer Therapeutics at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, followed by a Postdoctoral research position at Imperial College London where she utilised integrated robotics platforms to develop high-throughput assays for engineering biology. She currently works as a Scientific Leader at GSK within the R&D Technologies Automation team, supporting the implementation of Automation across early drug discovery, from target discovery through to pre-clinical testing in both small and large molecule modalities.