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Dragon Associates occupies a unique niche position in the area of fermentation and biotechnology consulting by providing on-site consultancy services. The advantages are a much lower cost than off-site strain improvement services and also the development of your strains and processes in-house avoids the scale-up problems which occur when transferring strains and processes from one location to another. An additional benefit is the training of in-house staff which occurs during on-site consultancy.
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| Professional Interests: |
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Fermentation, microbial genetics and physiology, strain/process improvement, scale-up and extraction/purification. |
| Academic Record: |
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1974-1977: Beit Memorial Medical Research Fellow at University of Bristol Medical School, UK
PhD in Microbial Genetics, University of Bristol, 1974. Thesis title: "Extranuclear mutants of Aspergillus nidulans"
BSc. (Hons. 2i) in Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, 1971
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| Languages: |
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English, Welsh, Spanish; working knowledge of French, German, Italian and some Mandarin Chinese |
| Employment History: |
| 1998-present: |
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Self-employed consultant under the name of Dragon Associates, providing technical consultancy to the fermentation/ pharmaceutical industry. Active client base currently includes Europe, India and China. |
| 1984-1998: |
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Director, Biotechnology Services for Panlabs, Inc., USA, a contract research organisation specialising in drug discovery and process development services for the pharmaceutical industry. Responsibility for directing a variety of yield improvement research programmes of around 80 scientific staff at Panlabs' laboratory in Taiwan, and for liaison with the industrial clients in Europe, India and Asia for whom this work was carried out. |
| 1981-1984: |
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Senior Section Head, Strain Improvement Section for Beecham Pharmaceuticals, UK. Responsibility for expanding and directing the clavulanic acid (Augmentin) strain improvement programme, including establishment of a genetic engineering group. |
| 1977-1981: |
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Section Head, Genetics and then Screening Sections, for Glaxo Operations, UK. Responsibility for directing the cephalosporin and penicillin strain improvement programmes, including the setting up of Glaxo's first genetic engineering group in this area. |
Committee Member, Institute of Biology North West Branch, 1978-1981
Industrial PhD Supervisor (Glaxo), University of Nottingham 1979-1981
Industrial PhD Supervisor (Glaxo), University of Nottingham 1983-1984
Industrial PhD Supervisor (Panlabs), University of Wales, Cardiff 1996-1999
External PhD Examiner, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1985
Symposium Convenor, Society for Industrial Microbiology, Seattle, WA, USA 1989
Course Director, Fermentation Workshop, Mumbai, India 2000
Visiting Lecturer, University of Sheffield 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
Honorary Lecturer, University of Wales, Cardiff 1996 onwards
Entry in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering" from 2003 onwards (7th Edition)
Entry in "Dictionary of International Biography" from 2004 onwards (31st Edition)
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