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EngD collaborations

The department manages an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Industrial Doctoral Training Centre (IDTC) in Bioprocess Engineering Leadership. The IDTC provides opportunities for collaborative research with companies via tailored one-to-one Engineering Doctorate (EngD) programmes. Examples of some recent EngD programmes are provided below.

• Anna has worked on a collaboration between the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital examining the processing of limbal cells for eye treatments.  She has become fully conversant with the exacting GMP requirements of the field and hopes to continue the relationship with her sponsor through a post-doctoral position.
• John examined issues of scale up for practical bed chromatographic processes and established a new framework for the prediction of performance at large scale.  Sponsored by BioPharm Services John took up a project engineering position with Jacobs Engineering and is now working extensively in Switzerland on a large biotech project.
• Naveraj was sponsored by the Hazards Evaluation Laboratories (HEL) where she investigated the ability of small-scale systems to mimic the full-scale performance of bioreactors.  She has remained in the academic field as a researcher on a large Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grant which is considering the use of miniaturised systems for the rapid development of bioprocesses.
• Richard has been sponsored by GE Healthcare and has spent his industrial secondments examining radical new downstream process options in the company facilities in Sweden.  He is currently working with experts in our Department of Statistics analysing the results of a major international survey which he has conducted.  The results of this will provide valuable business outputs to his sponsors as well as creating new opportunities for the wider sector.

EngD sponsors include: Avecia, The Automation Partnership, BioPharm Services, Biovex, BPL, Eli Lilly, Evotec, GE Healthcare, GSK, HEL, HPA, Ingenza, InterCell, Lonza Biologics, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Novo Nordisk, Onyvax, Pall Filtration, Plasticell, Protherics and Westfalia Separator.  

These graduates all work for periods up to three years at company sites while pursuing their enhanced doctorates at the UCL Centre.  Under the EPRSC scheme each works under your managers and our specialised staff.  Over a 4 year period we will help to plan a tailored study of an aspect of bioprocess needs including validation and development issues on which all these graduates are trained.  Because they can also take courses developed with the London Business School they can also bring wider skills.

Download a brochure with more details on sponsoring an EngD placement.

Gains for your company include:

• Increasing your speed of development
• Access to the resources of an international centre
• Opportunity to screen potential bioprocess leaders

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