Neil Borthwick

Neil Borthwick

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  • About me

    PhD student, Co-Founder & Principal Scientist at Polyceutix

  • Education

    • DTU - Technical University of Denmark

      2019 - 2020
      Academic exchange for one semester Biotechnology and pharmaceutical science

      Activities and Societies: Coordinator of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) Company Visits Committee at DTU (09/2019 – 01/2020). Member of the DTU Choir (tenor singer) (09/2019 – 01/2020). + Research Project: Center for Intelligent Drug Delivery and Sensing / DTU Nanotech: handling micro-devices for oral drug delivery (06/01/2020 – 26/01/2020).

    • DTU Health Tech

      2021 - 2024
      PhD Nanotechnology for immunotherapy

      Activities and Societies: Head coordinator of the DTU Choir (09/2021 - present) PhD in nanotechnology for immunotherapy at the Department of Health Technology, Nanosmithery group.

    • Stanford University

      2023 - 2023
      Visiting Student Researcher Material Science and Engineering

      Research stay at the Appel Lab, Stanford Department of Material Science and Engineering, focusing on applications of polymers for medical science.

    • INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

      2015 - 2020
      Engineering degree Biochemistry and Biotechnology

      Activities and Societies: INSA Lyon Astronomy Club: member (09/2015 – 06/2019) then President of the association (09/2017 – 06/2019). Handicap’INSA certification for promoting the integration of people with disabilities (04/2019). Multidisciplinary program including theoretical and experimental trainings in: biochemistry, organic and analytical chemistry, pharmacy, animal experiments, cellular, molecular and synthetic biology, microbiology, enzymology, image analysis, bioinformatics and statistics, and also programming, material science, electronics and optics, technical drawing and CAD, metal construction and machining.

  • Experience

    • DANIVAL

      Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
      Work internship

      Manufacturing and packaging of organic food products in all the units of the production site.

    • Thermo Fisher Scientific

      Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
      Technical Project Leader Intern

      - Main mission: Quality by Design enhancement: created a Risk Assessment model for each manufacturing process type in the Pharmaceutical Development Services unit (for Solid Oral Dosage Forms).- Assisted Technical Project Leaders on CDMO pharmaceutical process development projects.

    • Lonza

      Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
      R&D Intern in (pharmaceutical parenteral) Formulation Development department

      - Developed a model for the delivery of intravitreal dosage forms.- Provided support on formulation development of extracellular vesicles for pharmaceutical applications.

    • DTU Health Tech

      Sept 2021 - now
      PhD Student

      Title of thesis: Immunogenic polymer-lipid nanodiscs

    • Polyceutix

      Mar 2024 - now
      Co-founder & Principal Scientist

      Co-founder & Principal Scientist

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Deutsches Sprachdiplom - Level B1

      Kultusministerkonferenz
      Aug 2012
    • Laboratory Animal Science qualification, EU function ABD

      Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
      Mar 2022
    • TOEIC (Listening and Reading) - Score : 980 / 990 (Level C1)

      ETS
      Feb 2019