Mark Jones

Experience

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  Key Organics Ltd

  Sept 1989 - Jan 1990

  Organic Chemist
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  Synerga Ltd

  Jan 1990 - Apr 1994

  Organic Chemist
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  Cambridge Discovery Chemistry

  Oct 1999 - Jun 2001

  Synthetic Chemist

  Synthetic Chemist involved in contract custom synthesis

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  Takeda Oncology

  Jun 2001 - Sept 2003

  Senior Research Associate

  Active member of the UK team that initiated the first synthetic steps on an oncology project that has subsequently lead to the Development Candidates MLN8054 and MLMN8237.

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  Celltech

  Oct 2003 - Jul 2004

  Senior Medicinal Chemist
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  UCB

  Jul 2004 - May 2008

  Senior Medicinal Chemist

  ·Active member of a project team – responsible for the design, synthesis and purification of novel entities.·Experience of traditional and parallel synthetic chemistry techniques for challenging multistep targeted synthesis.·Application of new literature methodology to improve synthetic routes to desired targets.·Interpretation of biological data within a team to drive new ideas in exploring SAR and overcoming Med. Chem./DMPK issues.·Championed the set-up and training of the Cambridge chemists in the use of NEMO, an in-house NMR visualisation tool. Subsequently rolled out throughout the UK.·Feedback on the use of NEMO presented to Senior Management detailing the need for global support to maintain a critical company tool.·Championed the use of Spotfire for the visualisation of project data on the Cambridge site. Several visualisation features adopted by other projects globally. Show less

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  Argenta Discovery

  May 2008 - May 2014

  Senior Scientist
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  Charles River Laboratories

  Apr 2014 - now

  Manager within Compound Management at Charles River Laboratories

  • Group Leader

    Sept 2020 - now

  • Manager

    Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Senior Scientist

    Apr 2014 - Feb 2019