Alex Whitehouse

Experience

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  University of Bath

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

  Student Blogger
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  The Wistow Maze

  Jul 2015 - Sept 2016

  Team Member
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  GSK

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2017

  Industrial Placement Student

  Working within the Antibody Pharmacology team in the Biopharm Molecular Discovery department, I learnt several techniques during my placement year including mammalian cell culture, ELISA, MSD, miniprep and maxiprep, and graphpad. I also developed skills in scientific writing and presenting.

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  LGC

  Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

  Method development, validation and sample analysis to support biotherapeutic drugs in preclinical and clinical studies for immunogenicity and PK, working to GLP and GCP standards. Platforms include standard ELISA, MSD and Gyrolab. Additionally a 6-month part-time secondment into flow cytometry from November 2019 - April 2020 involved setting up this new department within the company, using both Cytoflex and Accuri cytometers.

  • Scientist 2

    Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Scientist 1

    Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
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  Cancer Research Horizons

  Oct 2020 - now

  Biosciences Team at Cancer Research Horizons. Focussing on flow cytometry (Attune and Aurora) and ELISA outputs to validate targets for immuno-oncology therapies. Additionally method development for screening of candidate antibodies in vitro. Overall focus on primary cells, in particular macrophage assays.

  • Scientist

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Associate Scientist

    Oct 2020 - Jan 2022