Nicola Burgess-Brown

Nicola earned her PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Nottingham before working in industry on high-throughput cloning and cancer antigen validation at Oxford GlycoSciences and Celltech. She later spent 17 years at the University of Oxford, where she led the Biotechnology Group at the SGC and became Head of the Protein Production Small Research Facility in the Centre for Medicines Discovery. From 2021-2023, she served as Director of Enzymology and Protein Engineering at Exact Sciences in Oxford, supporting cancer diagnostics research. She is now a Professorial Research Fellow in Protein Sciences and COO of Protein Sciences for the SGC at University College London.