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Sarah Brockbank

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Strategy Leader-Complex Medicines at Medicines Discovery Catapult
📍 Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Sarah Brockbank is a scientist with over 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. As Strategy Leader for Complex Medicines at Medicines Discovery Catapult, she develops national programmes and influences policy. She is a molecular biologist with deep expertise in drug discovery, target identification, and managing large public-private consortia.

Sarah is highly motivated by collaboration and enjoys engaging with experts across different sectors to advance science. She views industry events as key opportunities to connect with friends and colleagues, believing it is important to find opportunities to make the next steps in research happen together.

She is the co-inventor on patents for a nicotinic receptor agonist and for the use of glucokinase activators in treating osteoarthritis.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Strategy Leader-Complex Medicines
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom
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Complex Medicines Strategy
In her current role, she leads the development and implementation of the core national strategy for this emerging and innovative field at Medicines Discovery Catapult.
Drug Discovery
Her career spans over three decades in the pharmaceutical industry, previously serving as a Drug Discovery Project Leader at AstraZeneca and supporting SMEs with their projects.
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Work history

9-2023
Strategy Leader-Complex Medicines
Medicines Discovery Catapult
8-2018 - 9-2023
Lead Scientist-external drug discovery
Medicines Discovery Catapult
12-2013 - 8-2018
Senior Project Leader
OracleBio Ltd
12-2013 - 8-2018
Scientific Manager of the MRC/ABPI Consortium (RA-MAP)
Newcastle University
2-2012 - 11-2013
Project Manager
Newcastle University
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The University of Edinburgh
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Durham University
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