Dr Amanda Baxendale
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Job title: Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Manager
Email: a.baxendale@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 597815
Room: Enterprise Centre Room 208
Recent publications
- Baxendale et al., Single shot tetanus vaccine manufactured by Nanomix(TM) is as effective as multiple doses of an alum adsorbed vaccine. (In submission)
- Baxendale et al., Constitutive activation of the CD40 pathway promotes call transformation and neoplastic growth. Oncogene. 2005
- Hill et al., Activation of CD40 in cervical carcnimoa cells facilitates CTL responses and augments chemotherapy-induced apoptosis. J Immunol. 2005
Experience in Industry
I worked as a Biologics Scientist and Pre-Clinical and Clinical Studies Manager, for Critical Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Nottingham. I was a member of a small close-knit team within Critical Pharmaceuticals for over two years. The majority of my time was spent working on the proof of concept of use of the company's proprietary technology for controlled release single dose vaccines. Working towards Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), I ran my own research programme (a BBSRC Small Business Research Initiative), planning and undertaking my own research including devising new assays and collaborating with Unviersity of Nottingham. I also got a good grounding in the running of a small business. I was involved in operations management, preparing reports to our funders (private investors and Research Councils), exploring business development opportunities, marketing and PR, and advising and taking advice from our Directors and advisers.
I have also worked in the biochemistry laboratories of an NHS hospital; what was then, the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, which gave me a good insight into the automation and quality management requirements of a high throughput laboratory.
Current Activities / Links with Industry
I regularly attend industry focused and networking events, to develop contacts to bring back into the University. I am always willing to visit organisations with academics, allowing the partnership to focus on the project being developed together, whilst I take care of the collaborative process.
Faculty: UoD Corporate
I am an Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Manager for Unviersity of Derby Corporate. I help to create links between external partners and our academic expertise within the University of Derby. By building these relationships we can help organisations achieve their objectives and overcome challenges, whilst giving students relevant, up to date case study material and contact with businesses. This ensures that the teaching and research undertaken at this University is practical and contextualised within today's society, whilst stimulating new research avenues for our academics.
I have held similar positions at the University of Sheffield and University of Birmingham. In addition to this I have worked at a small pharmaceutical company in Nottingham.
I can advise members of staff on working with companies and other organisations; including putting the appropriate formal agreements in place and identifying funding opportunities that can help to fund or co-fund the collaborative relationship.
Academics can also approach me if they have an idea about an aspect of their work that they think could be developed into a product or service. Together we will create a development plan, that will compliment their research and work together to develop the idea.
Professional interests
Everybody else's research! I like helping others achieve what they want to out of their research and ideas.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
I am a Member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science of Great Britain www.apsgb.co.uk
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Birmingham
Research qualifications
- PhD: Constitutive activation of the CD40 pathway in cell transformation, CRUK Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham
