Full Name
Dr Mark Briggs
Job Title
Assistant Director of Innovation
Company/Organisation
Cardiff And Vale University Health Board
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Speaker Bio
Mark Briggs is the Assistant Director for Innovation for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and the Precision Medicine Ambassador for the Life Sciences Hub Wales. Prior to these roles he was Co-Director Midland-Wales Advanced Therapies Treatment Centre, Programme Lead for Advanced Therapies Wales and both Head of Cell and Gene Therapy for the Welsh Blood Service and Head of Strategy for Research, Development and Innovation for the Velindre Cancer Centre within the Velindre University NHS Trust.
Prior to moving to the public sector Mark spent more than 20 years within R&D in the commercial Life Sciences industry in a series of senior roles leading the development and application of enabling and disruptive technologies primarily for drug discovery, development, safety testing. In his latter corporate years, he focussed upon the industrialisation of advanced therapies with a view to enabling safe and robust, turn-key production of both genetically and non-genetically modified cellular therapies. During this time, he was co-author on numerous per-reviewed publications and co-inventor of several granted international patents.
Prior to moving to the public sector Mark spent more than 20 years within R&D in the commercial Life Sciences industry in a series of senior roles leading the development and application of enabling and disruptive technologies primarily for drug discovery, development, safety testing. In his latter corporate years, he focussed upon the industrialisation of advanced therapies with a view to enabling safe and robust, turn-key production of both genetically and non-genetically modified cellular therapies. During this time, he was co-author on numerous per-reviewed publications and co-inventor of several granted international patents.
