Jonathan Wingfield

Jon Wingfield received his PhD from University of Wales, School of Pure & Applied Biology in 1990. After working as a Post-Doctoral fellow at Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH he returned to the UK and took up a role with a Japanese Pharma working at their research centre in Oxford. Jon moved into automation when the research centre was re-tasked as an assay development function. Jon’s lab received the first European installation of a Beckman/Sagian Core system.
Since Joining AZ in 2000, Jon established the Lead Generation Automation Team. Their role was to build and implement automation systems to support screening within the Oncology function. This group evolved into a centralised biochemical screening capability in 2006. The team implemented a LIMS to improve efficiency, the value of this system was recognised when AZ was awarded the Microsoft Innovation in Pharma in 2008. Jon now supports the screening capability within AZ’s Discovery Sciences, a global screening function. His role includes development, evaluation and deployment of new technologies.