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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Linda Powers, CEO, Northwest Biotherapeutics Powers has served as the Chairman of NW Bio since 2007, and as CEO since 2011. And this is especially true in senior leadership: only one in four C-suite leaders is a woman, and only one in 20 is a woman of colour.” I owe so much to Franklin and many others.”

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Transforming high-throughput screening with mass spectrometry

Drug Discovery World

HTS as a tool for drug discovery has evolved rapidly since the origin of the technique in the 1990s. Using timsTOF technology as an HTS read-out method has the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of the drug development process by increasing lead quality and providing access to a new drug target space in early drug discovery.