Nigel Brooks

Nigel is a research-driven Life Science Consultant with extensive drug discovery and development experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic sectors.  He is motivated by the opportunity to translate basic research into clinical application in a way that benefits patients most effectively.  Nigel was until recently, Director of Translational Science at CellCentric Ltd, a UK based biotechnology business, developing a novel therapeutic approach to treating a number of cancers.  Before that he was Executive Project Lead for a number of oncology drug project teams at AstraZeneca and has taken several candidate drugs into clinical development.  He is coach and advisor at Lean Life Science, a company dedicated to catalysing innovation in the Life Sciences sector, through the delivery of bespoke development programmes.  Nigel sits on a number of advisory boards including the Prostate Cancer Research Translational Science Advisory Committee.  Nigel holds a PhD from Nottingham University and is proud to have published over 80 peer reviewed papers.