Join us for the fourth meeting of the Christ’s College Life Sciences Network!
With thanks to Andrew Hutchinson (m. 1998) and Tom Leonard (m. 2001), we are delighted to invite you to the next meeting of the Christ’s College Life Sciences Network! We aim to connect alumni, graduate and postgraduate students (of any subject) and the broader College community who are interested in the field; an area of huge activity and tremendous breakthroughs over the last decade.
Speakers:
Ann Kramer (m. 1985)
'Scaffolds for Life: Engineering Biomaterials for Healing and Regeneration'
Ann is the CEO of The Electrospinning Company, a biomaterials company that develops components and coatings for medical devices, with applications across ophthalmology, orthopaedics, and cardiovascular fields. Ann graduated in 1988 specialising in plant biotechnology, then spent nearly two decades in techno-commercial roles in agritech, before assuming leadership positions in UK SMEs. Ann is a member of the National Materials Innovation Leadership Group and has served on the Strategic Facilities Advisory Board for the Royce National Institute for Advanced Materials Innovation. A committed mentor, she serves as an ambassador for Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation initiative.
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Chris Whittaker (m. 2001)
'From Bench to Banking: Discovering what Bankers actually do…'
Chris is a Senior Managing Director in the Healthcare team at the independent investment bank Evercore, London, having started his career in finance at Rothschild in 2005. Chris studied Natural Sciences at Christ’s, spending his summers in Cambridge working for Celltech (since acquired by UCB.) He studied Pharmacology in his final year before starting his PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UCL.
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Juliane Weller (m. 2020)
'Shining Light on the Dark Genome with Genetic Engineering'
Juliane is a final-year PhD student at Christ's, working in the Lab of Dr Leopold Parts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her research focuses on using paired CRISPR prime editing to study structural variants and their effects on cell viability at scale. She also develops machine learning models to predict prime editing efficiency and optimise experimental design. Juliane holds a Master's in Bioengineering from Strasbourg and a Bachelor's in Molecular Medicine from Freiburg.
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Please join us for an evening of networking and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there!
Location: Simmons and Simmons, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, City of London, London EC2Y 9SS