One Nucleus People Pathways - January 2021 Edition

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January 2021

People Pathways Happy New Year and Welcome to the January edition of our first ever One Nucleus People Pathways newsletter. We recharged our batteries over the holidays and have certainly come back feeling refreshed and motivated. At One Nucleus we are committed to helping organisations and individuals succeed through a strong Learning & Development ecosystem so, however far along your pathway, we are working to support you the best way we can. What have we been up to? This month, amongst our standard courses, we delivered not one, but three bespoke in-house training courses; a Biological Safety: Management and Practice (BSO) course for MD Catapult and King’s College London and our Introduction to Drug Discovery course for Mission Therapeutics. It has been a fantastic start to the year to work with so many people already on developing their knowledge and skills. We recieved some excellent news that the Online BSO course now comes with IOSH approval to enable remote training from any location. Online learning offers greater flexibility for those seeking to develop their credentials in parallel to employment or studies. The role of investing in some personal R&D to further your career will be the subject of a session at our Building Life Science Adventures conference on 30-31st March. To inform that discussion we would be grateful if you could answer this quick, anonymous poll on what role a good employer should play in an employee’s personal R&D. Survey link. Inside this edition there are upcoming events and courses that you won’t want to miss, insightful training topics, career pathways and opportunities including free access to our on-demand sessions from ON Helix and Genesis conferences. To get involved or have a chance to be featured in the next newsletter please contact training@onenucleus.com and for hot off the press updates, follow our @OneNucleus Twitter and LinkedIn accounts!


Upcoming Courses & Events 03 February BioWednesday Webinar - Enabling AI in Drug Discovery 03 February RSSL Webinar: Nitrosamines Analysis - Better Understanding the Risk 10 February Grants: How to get the most out of your claim 11 - 12 February Online Biological Safety Management and Practice (IOSH Approved) training course registration is closed - please email training@onenucleus for more information 15 February Life Science Marketing Group: Clarity From Complexity - Essential Tips to Sharpen Your Message 18 February Working with Parkinson’s Disease and Embracing Nuerodiversity 25 February Critical Regulartory Paths to Value Inflection 02 March Collaborating to Supporting Biotech and Med Tech Businesses Across Our Neighbouring Regions 22 - 25 March BIO-Europe Spring 2021 30 - 31 March ON Careers Conference - Building Life Science Adventures 14 April Presentation Skills for Scientists 14 - 15 April An Introduction to Drug Discovery - From Idea to Clinical Candidate

Our Training Courses: • • • • • • •

Online Introduction to Drug Discovery - From Idea to Clinical Candidate Presentation Skills for Scientists The Safe Use and Management of Lab Gases Lab Health and Safety Biological Masterclas: Building and Maintaining Competence in BioSafety Online Introduction to Managing Life Science Projects Biological Safety: Management and Practice (IOSH Approved)

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Career Pathways Vacancies Project Manager - Research and Development - Mestag Therapeutics Head of Product Management - Evonetix Territory Sales Manager - Haier Biomedical UK Technician - Microscopy - Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) Discovery Data Manager - Sosei Heptares Click here to see the wide range of opportunities at bit.bio - some of the roles include; Project Coordinator, Sales Administrator, Health and Safety Officer, Senior Marketing Associate and many more! CCDK are looking to grow their team. To view their current vacancies including Junior and Senior Software Engineering roles, click here. To view more vacancies like this, visit onenucleus.com/jobs Dont forget that if you are a member of One Nucleus you can list your current vacancies on our website.

Recent Member Appointments Artios Pharma have expanded their US leadership team with the appointment of Abid Ansari as Chief Financial Officer PharmaEnable welcome Dr James Dale as Director of Drug Discovery Domainex Ltd. are delighted to have appointed David Cronk, CBiol, MRSB, to the team as its new Chief of Staff. Mestag Therapeutics welcome Dr. Yuchen Bai as VP, Head of Data Science Congenica have appointed Dr. Muthu Meyyappan as Chief Commercial Officer Horton International announced the appointment of Emma Whittle as Partner within it’s Global Healthcare arm


Training Topics Free Learning Opportunities Because learning experiences don’t always necessarily stand with formal training, One Nucleus is making a range of educational workshops and webinars available to watch free of charge within its on-demand content. New year comes with new resolutions and learning and development should be part of it. So here is a snapshot of workshops held at our ON Helix and Genesis conferences constituting strong business and technology educational insight: - - - - -

IP Due Diligence Early Stage Funding Readiness Communications 101 Deal Management for Innovators Preclinical Dataset

We hope you find them useful and please keep watching the on-demand content page of the One Nucleus website for further update.

Pivoting your learning and development in 2021 Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhees 2020 turned many of our lives upside down. For some it will have meant furlough, working in shifts, working from home, juggling home schooling, caring for elderly relatives. For all of us it will have meant managing our health and well being with a minimum of our usual social and leisure resources. And we still have a few months to go… We’ve all had to pivot the way we live our lives and do our work. It would not be surprising if our learning and development had also also been put on hold during this time, or taken some new form. RiverRhee, like other One Nucleus member-to-member suppliers, has been pivoting the way it supports the development of management and team member skills. Coaching, team workshops, training courses are delivered via Microsoft Teams or Zoom, in short convenient modules, with online white-boards where appropriate.


Breakout discussions and exercises have been a great success, with the added bonus of connecting delegates with colleagues in meaningful conversations. Pivoting your learning and development in 2021 could provide you with a valuable reflective space to address your challenges and opportunities in a transformational way. Do contact Elisabeth Goodman at elisabeth@riverrrhee.com, on +44(0)7876 130 817 or take a look at www.riverrhee.com to find out how RiverRhee can pivot your learning and development in 2021.

Do all life scientists wear lab coats? Tony Jones, One Nucleus How will the loss of in-person laboratory teaching impact job prospects? As a follow up to our recent poll asking if the current undergraduates who are losing inperson laboratory teaching will be disadvantaged in securing future jobs. The results can be summarised as:

No surprise perhaps that the overwhelming majority (84% where n=230) felt the answer was yes and in ‘normal’ situations the consequence should be avoided. We are not in normal times, of course, so how to balance the need to contain the spread of a virus with in-person teaching needs is complex for the education providers and students alike. It did stimulate discussion however about how, in an age where virtual and augmented reality, broad internet access and communication, laboratory training could be delivered remotely.


Recreating experiments in a virtual world I can see has merits and a potential legacy beyond the pandemic if it means access to such training is widened. The upfront investment to create such platforms I fear though may well render this approach non-viable without huge grant support. Clearly most agreed however that there was nothing quite like handon experience to enable someone to learn such techniques beyond the theoretical application. Do all science careers require lab coats? It was interesting to be pointed towards two reports about the career destination of science graduates. First, the Prosects ‘What do graduates do? 2020/21’ report. and the earlier Royal Society ‘The Scientific Century’ report when asked, in response to the poll question above, how many of the cohorts go on to use practical skills and hence are less disadvantaged? Interestingly the Prospects report indicated that whilst >30% from 2017/18 graduation ended up in science professional roles such as researcher or technician, 25% were in manufacturing, R&D and construction and so on, it was notable that almost 20% were then in finance, HR, marketing and sales roles after studying a biological sciences degree. Many go directly on to further study of course and whilst I don’t have similarly recent data, the Royal Society report suggests that <5% of PhD graduates end up in permanent university research positions and >20% in research careers outside of universities. This leaves 80% of PhD graduates ultimately career shifting into careers outside science.


Or do they? I ask this question since there is the assertion that all roles not in research are ‘outside science’. This may be true for many, but equally I know many science graduates and PhD scientists who are no longer in lab-based roles. They are however, in associated roles within R&D companies, public policy, investment, communications and wider, still within, supporting and influencing the science sector, just not in the laboratory. Transformation of biomedical R&D to be increasingly data driven creates opportunities for those skilled in data science, engineering, automation and AI/Machine Learning at an almost exponential rate. Understanding how to engage such skills from other sectors is a Learning and Development opportunity for the whole Life Science sector. These scientists don’t wear lab coats, don’t require to be in a laboratory but absolutely require to be part of multi-disciplinary teams with whom to apply their expertise. What attracts the best? Mid-2020, the UK Government published its UK Research & Development Roadmap setting out its aspirations and proposed actions to ensure this was firmly part of a successful UK plc future. One aspect within that was laying down the challenge of how we attract the best talent to the UK? and furthermore how do we ensure research is for all? We have held discussions around those challenges, captured in our blog series and through our network have created a library of related recorded sessions available for on-demand viewing. Harnessing the inherent sense of purpose that the biomedical sector has whilst communicating the huge breadth of roles and opportunities within it is something we aim to do on a continual basis. Personal development matters to us all and career goals are personal and important. Lost of things make a great job, aspirations vary between us and employer practices vary also. We see hugely insightful leadership among those building their teams. Increasingly recognising that flexibility, company culture and how an organisation aligns with the big society matters such as climate change and diversity, mentoring of their staff. These examples indicate how the sector is adapting to ensure it attract, retain and motivate the best possible talent and skills. So, what works? The aim of One Nucleus is to work with our members and stakeholders to discuss and disseminate good practice wherever possible and position our sector as an employer of choice collectively. This allows us to support our members in attracting the best people, not because they create jobs alone, but because they are creating great careers for bright people looking for a cause. Perhaps every Learning & Development exercise starts with awareness. For those building their careers, awareness of opportunity and the skills required to reach their goals. For employers, the awareness sits around understanding what can make them be perceived as an employer of choice, including the value that can add to their brand in the eyes of their stakeholders. The next step must be engagement with each other to create the journeys both wish to purchase tickets for. This alignment of aspirations is a two-way street, establishing what each other wants, what it is feasible to deliver for the other party and what the next steps could be.


This is the reason One Nucleus has created ‘Building Life Science Adventures’, an online careers conference with live sessions over 30th – 31st March delivered via an event app that enables all delegates to connect with each other for more targeted follow up. Far from being designed as a jobs fair where advice is given and CVs handed over, this event is built to enable that discussion around what works for career seekers and for employers, ideally identifying best practice for all. Registration is free to all thanks to the generous support of sponsors and supporters, all of whom are dedicated to ensuring the Life Science sector is the place to be to address unmet needs, global challenges and personal goals.

Building Life Science Adventures Careers Conference 2021

30-31 March 2021

As Paul Meyer has stated “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success”. True for all ages and a fantastic opportunity to learn from those ahead or behind you in their journeys. Building Life Science Adventures allows you to engage, connect, communicate and network. The ingredients for each and everyone’s success are there, so you just need to add yourself and your own aspirations!


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