Our Expert Team

Stuart has 20 years’ experience in funding the growth and corporate development of both established international technology/biopharma companies and 7 early stage life science companies. He has also been involved in 7 successful Innovate UK grant applications. During his career he has raised over £100M of capital in equity & debt instruments and has been involved in M&A and other contract negotiations with customers and business partners globally including North Africa, Middle East and China.

Brian is Professor of Molecular Nutrition at the Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, QUB. He has 21 years of experience in academic research, published >200 scientific articles (cited more than 5,000 times), and secured over £4 million in grant funding and is internationally renowned in the field of molecular nutrition. His laboratory made the initial discoveries which led to the pre-clinical development and market discovery of Aramune^TM. Brian has worked on a wide range of academic (grant funded) and industry-led projects which relate to the development and testing of novel pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals for treatment of diseases including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases. Research projects have been funded by EPSRC, MRC, NIH (HSC NI), Diabetes UK, The British Heart Foundation, InvestNI, KTP, NIHPSS, Innovate UK, Alzheimer’s Research UK and a number of commercial companies.

Chris Nicklin has over 30 years of chemical process development and manufacturing experience with both blue chip and private equity backed SME organsiations in the Pharmaceutical, Fine Chemical and Life Science sectors. His experience encompasess Process Development, Technology Transfer, Scale-up, Outsourced Manufacturing, and Global Supply Chain. He has supported all stages of the product development life cycle, from late stage research through to development, launch and commercial supply.