Cathy is the founding director of Biolatris Ltd and has more than 20 years’ experience in research, management, and business in the life science and venture capital sectors.


She is highly experienced in technology assessment, market positioning, business development, and strategic planning, and is a recognised opinion leader in the stem cell and regenerative medicine sector.


Cathy is an advisor to the national Healthtech and Medicines Knowledge Transfer Network, and the UK National Stem Cell Bank, and was the lead partner on the largest consortium funded through the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board regenmed programme. 


She is also:


  1. •A life sciences advisory board member for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA, USA)

  2. •An advisory committee member for the charity DebRA

  3. •An expert reviewer for the European Commission framework grant programmes

  4. •A teacher and mentor for the University of Cambridge Master in Bioscience Enterprise programme

  5. •An advisor to the Bio-Ignite summer business school (Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning)


In 2007 Cathy co-founded univerCELLmarket, the most comprehensive on-line information service for the stem cell and regenerative medicine community, and is a director of the company.


Prior to Biolatris, Cathy spent seven years as a director for the venture capital firm Avlar BioVentures and was a non-executive director to several portfolio companies. She was formerly head of drug discovery at Ribotargets Ltd and assistant director and group leader for SmithKline Beecham.


Cathy held post-doctoral fellowships at Max Delbruick Centre for Molecular Medicine (Berlin), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin), and Brown University (USA). Cathy holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

 

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Dr Cathy Prescott


Andrew has more than 25 years’ information technology experience. His technical background is in distributed information systems, but he also has unparalleled expertise in the creation of international standards for modelling business and IT systems, including extensive work with ISO and other international standards.

 

Andrew Watson

Biolatris has built up an extensive network of contacts and associates that extend our service offering when additional skills and resources are required to meet client needs.




univerCELLmarket is a comprehensive source of up-to-date information for the global stem cell and regenerative medicine community. Search for everything from therapies and stem cell banks to suppliers of GMP manufacturing services, tissues,cells, research centres, news and networks.

www.univercellmarket.com







Simply Cells Ltd is a specialist stem cell and regenerative medicine consultancy offering expertise and support in regulatory affairs and clinical development, stem cell engineering and manufacture, market analysis, sales and marketing, due diligence, fundraising and public relations as well as technical writing and training courses.

www.simplycells.com




CAB Ltd is a specialist consultancy offering regulatory advice to the regenerative medicine industry.  Unlike conventional medicines these products require a high level of scientific expertise in addition to a clear understanding of the regulatory framework in order to think later.

www.advbiols.com




Adroit offers expertise across the life-cycles of strategies, programmes and projects: conceptualisation and strategy formulation, market, economic and social research, business case making, including options appraisal, economic impact, cost-benefit analysis and financial appraisal as well as project and programme monitoring, interim and final evaluation.

www.adroit-economics.co.uk



At lets cell it.com we specialise in the development of web portals for the life sciences sector. Our first portal - the UK BioPharma Market - enables you to access products, services and information about the British biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry at the push of a button including news, jobs, events, lab space, drug discovery services, pipelines, tutorials and business services.

www.letscellit.com






 

Dr Beverley Vaughan

Beverley brings over a decades’ experience in research and management working within the academic and clinical sectors. She is experienced in project development, implementation and management as well as teaching and personnel development. She gained over 7 years’ experience as a clinical scientist specialising in haematology. This work included gaining a broad range of experience in stem cell transplantation to treat leukaemia and lymphoma as well as cord blood banking. Prior to her clinical experience, Beverley trained as a molecular cytogeneticist gaining expertise in the application of a range of molecular diagnostics in preleukaemic patients.


Former head of the ARU biomedical ethics panel, Beverley established and managed her own research unit, which included an HPA accredited new tissue culture and molecular biology research facility. She has managed multiple collaborative research programmes with public sector partners including with the Vision and Eye research centre at Addenbrooke’s University Hospital and with the Forensic Chemistry department and Cambridgeshire Constabulary drug enforcement team. She is a state registered Clinical Scientist in Haematology having spent seven years working within the health care sector at Cambridge University teaching hospital and the Royal Free (RF) and University College London (UCL) medical school. Beverley holds a PhD in molecular genetics from De Montfort University, Leicester in collaboration with RF and UCL and has extensive experience presenting at multiple National and International conferences.