Catherine Kettleborough

Catherine Kettleborough is the Head of Biology at LifeArc’s Centre for Therapeutics Discovery (CTD). LifeArc (formerly MRC Technology) is an independent life science technology transfer charity, offering professional services to organisations within the academic, charity, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors globally. LifeaArc’s Biology group is responsible for conducting target validation, reagent generation, assay development, screening (100-250K screens) biochemical, biophysical and cell based assays to support prosecution of hit to lead and antibody discovery projects for novel drug targets sourced from academic research groups worldwide.

Prior her current role, Catherine was Assistant Director of Applied Research at MRC Technology and her responsibilities included managing the Assay Development and Screening Group. She has 25 year plus of working at the interface between academic research and pharma/biotech, as a bench scientist, project manager, team leader and start-up Director.