Meet the team at Oxford Expression Technologies

Dr Richard Broadhead, Sales and Marketing Manager

Richard obtained a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham and then went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Aberdeen. Richard joined Oxford Expression Technologies in 2008 and is OET’s Sales and Marketing Manager. His experience spans both the academic and commercial spheres of science. Richard brings significant global business development experience to the company and also has extensive relevant technical experience acquired through laboratory research in the fields of proteomics and protein expression.

Dr Himesh Fernando, Technical Sales Manager

Himesh obtained his PhD from Cambridge University after graduating from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. His research focused on phage display selection of antibodies against DNA structures and regulation of gene expression in cancer cells using these antibodies. Himesh also holds CIM UK for professional Marketing and has managed a brand for a large corporation in Sri Lanka. In 2008 he joined Oxford Nanopore Technologies to conduct research on a novel DNA sequencing technique. Himesh joined OET in mid 2010 bringing both scientific and marketing expertise.

Olga Lissina, Contract Services Manager

Olga has considerable laboratory experience and has particular expertise in the field of protein production and purification. After working for 14 years at several Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences she joined the Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology (now CEH Oxford) after arriving in England in 1998. Whilst there she established a range of innovative procedures for purifying proteins with putative therapeutic potency expressed in bacterial, yeast and baculovirus expression systems, participated in technology transfer for industrial scale protein production as well as advising companies producing proteins for clinical trials. She joined OET in the beginning of 2008.

Dr Adam Chambers

Adam graduated in Biotechnology from Oxford Brookes University in 2007. During his course he spent a year working at CEH Oxford on the molecular biology of insect baculoviruses in Professor Bob Possee’s research group. Subsequently he enrolled at Oxford Brookes University to do an OET sponsored PhD under the supervision of Prof Possee and Prof King. This aimed to identify target Occlusion Derived Virus protein function(s) and improve the baculovirus expression system. Adam completed the PhD in March 2012 and now works in OET's laboratory in both R&D and service work.

Christine Newell, Administration and Accounts Clerk

Christine is the company's Administration and Accounts Clerk. Christine comes from a financial background having completed 16 years in banking with HSBC. She then went on to office management and has experience of working for scientific companies and with start up companies.

Elena Mantione, Research Assistant

Elena Graduated in 2009 with a Master’s Degree in Biology Applied to Biomedical Research from University of Milan. During her course she worked on the clinical, histopathological and biomolecular characterization of two Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) families. Then she worked for one year in the Flow-Cytometry and Experimental Hepatology Laboratory in the Foundation IRCCS Cà Granda-Hospital Maggiore Polyclinic of Milan. She has currently joined Oxford Expression Technologies as a contract services Research Assistant.

Rory Woodhouse, Research Assistant

Rory graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2011 with a degree in Medical Biochemistry. During his studies he worked on mapping the interactions of the Hsp20-PDE4D5 protein complex and improving the expression system for Hsp20 in E.coli. Rory is currently a Research Assistant at OET acting as technical laboratory support.

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The Team