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Suzanne Aigrain

Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford

Suzanne’s research focuses on the discovery and characterisation of extra-solar planets using the transit and radial velocity methods, and on the application of probabilistic machine learning to exoplanet datasets. She often works with data from space telescopes such as CoRoT, Kepler, Hubble and TESS, and is involved in the preparation of future missions such as PLATO. In recent years her research has received support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the UK Space Agency and the Leverhulme Trust.

After a Physics degree at Imperial College, Suzanne Aigrain worked as a ung Graduate Trainee at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC research centre in the Netherlands, before obtaining her PhD in Astrophysics form eller gestalt the University of Cambridge. She was a PPARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cambridge and a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter before m

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Keynote Speakers

Patrick was appointed President, Pharmaceuticals R&D, in January 2012. Prior to his appointment he was Senior Vice President, Medicines Discovery and Development. He is a member of the Corporate Executive Team. Patrick joined the company in May 2006 as Head of Drug Discovery.

Prior to joining GSK Patrick was a clinical academic and led the Division of Medicine at University College London. He has over 20 years’ experience of research clinical medicine, general internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine and clinical pharmacology. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.

Patrick has been on the Board of the UK Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research (OSCHR) since 2009.

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz was installed as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 October 2010. The Vice-Chancellor is the principal academic and administrative officer of the University.
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First event in Knowledge Exchange for healthy ageing and affordable medicines

We are delighted to announce the first annual UK SPINE conference in Knowledge Exchange.  For those of you not previously aware of the initiative this is a Connecting Capability Fund (CCF) programme which launched in 2018. We are keen to engage audiences across the Knowledge Exchange, Technology Transfer and Industrialisation teams, additionally thought leaders, researchers and clinicians working and interested in the fields of healthy ageing and affordable medicines.

If you would like to attend please take a look at the conference registration page here uk-spine-annual-conference-2019.eventbrite.co.uk.

Programme

Day 1

Time	Item	Ideas
09.30 - 10.00	Arrival tea and coffee
10.00 - 10.10	Opening Address	Professor Sir Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee
10.10 - 10.50	The conundrum of creating frictionless KE