BELS Brief Chats podcast

BELS Brief Chats podcast


Latest Episodes

BELS Brief Chats #16 – Dr Karen Akinsanya.
July 04, 2024

Karen Akinsanya PhD is President of R&D, Therapeutics at Schrdinger. This followed leadership positions at Merck & Co and at Ferring Pharmaceuticals. Raised initially in Bristol and then in the su

BELS Brief Chats Episode #15 – Dr Martin Mackay.
July 04, 2024

From humble beginnings in Edinburgh, Martin Mackay PhD's lifelong passion for football and his beloved Heart of Midlothian, allied to a total fascination with the 'coolness' of lab coats, were parlaye

BELS Brief Chats Episode #14 – Dr Gillian Cannon.
August 30, 2023

Dr Gillian Cannon currently serves on multiple boards and in an executive role at Roivant as Head of Commercial Innovation. Her 30-year career has included leadership roles in major pharma includingM

BELS Brief Chats #13 – Professor Will Harvey.
June 25, 2023

Will Harvey, MPhil, BA, PhDWhen we recorded this episode of BELS Brief Chats, Will was a Professor of Leadership at the University of Bristol School of Management. He is presently Professor of Leader

BELS Brief Chats #12 – Dr Fiona Marshall.
June 02, 2022

Fiona Marshall discovered a love for science at school.She eschewed medicine for biochemistry at the University of Bath and then chose neuroscience for her PhD at Cambridge, while also accumulating i

BELS Brief Chats Episode #11 – Dr Gillian Leng.
February 18, 2022

At the age of 10 she wanted to be a vet, at 17 a scientist, and at 21 she settled on medicine. Gillian Leng trained as a doctor at Leeds University, studied peripheral arterial disease in Edinburgh f

BELS Brief Chats Episode #10 – Dr Calum Macrae
February 01, 2022

Born into a medical family on the Isle of Skye, DrCalumMacrae's path to Edinburgh University and London to study medicine and become a leading cardiologist, geneticist and developmental biologist is

BELS Brief Chats Episode #9 – Mike Grey
September 28, 2021

The conversation between Nigel (in London amid rain of biblical proportions) and Mike Grey (in Utah amid smoke-filled air brought about by severe drought and forest fires) brought into sharp relief th

BELS Brief Chats #8 – Dr Annalisa Jenkins
July 28, 2021

Dr Annalisa Jenkins grew up in the south of England in a naval family. Having discovered a passion medicine at an early age, she received offers from several medical schools and chose St. Bart's - be

BELS Brief Chats #7 – Justin Gover
July 28, 2021

Justin Gover is the ex-CEO of GW Pharmaa great UK success storyknown for treatments for epilepsy and the multiple sclerosis treatment product nabiximols which was the first natural cannabis plant de