Biography
Roles and responsibilities: leading the Business and Innovation team; translation strategy; advancing discoveries; industry partnerships; commercialisation
Róisín has over 20 years’ experience translating scientific discoveries to benefit patients, across government, academic, industry and not-for-profit sectors. Following post-doctoral studies at UCSF's Comprehensive Cancer Center, Róisín worked in biopharma drug discovery before joining Cancer Research Technology (now Horizons) where she spent 13 years leading the commercialisation of academic discoveries. She has led partnership and business development activities within the public sector at CPRD, the MHRA's real world data centre, and the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Harwell; and in the private sector at the leading US oncology liquid biopsy company, Guardant Health and at Ground Truth Labs, a spin-out from the University of Oxford developing AI-enabled biomarker tests.