Catherine Bardelle PhD

Senior Cell Scientist

Catherine Bardelle has significant experience from many years working in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Catherine obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Paris VI working on recombinant Factor VIII. She followed her interest in the clotting cascade by doing a post-doc in Boston within TUFTS university/New England medical Center where she studied the binding kinetics of Factor V and VIII to phospholipid vesicles. After 4 years in Boston she came to the UK to work in London for EISAI, embracing the challenges of discovering drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.

Looking for a calmer pace of life, she moved to Macclesfield 7 years later and joined AstraZeneca. She worked mostly in lead generation, using molecular biology skills to validate targets and developed biochemical and cellular assays to perform secondary screens for novel oncology drug targets. She then moved to the High Throughput Screening Group where she led projects in all disease areas of interest to AZ, delivering cellular and biochemical screens optimised for large scale automation.

Following AZ's relocation to Cambridge she decided to stay in Macclesfield and joined Sygnature in March 2025.

Outside of work she enjoys gardening, reading, listening to music, watching rugby, F1 or tennis and taking care of her 2 cats.

Bell LE, Bardelle C, Packer MJ, Kastl J, Holdgate GA, Davies G. (2024). Characterisation of high throughput screening outputs for small molecule degrader discovery. SLAS Discovery, vol 29, doi:10.1016/j.slasd.2024.100162

Holdgate GA, Bardelle C, Berry SK, Lanne A, Cuomo ME. (2023). Screening for molecular glues-Challenges and opportunities. SLAS Discovery, vol 29, doi: 10.1016/j.slasd.2023.12.008.

Winter-Holt, J. J., Bardelle, C., Chiarparin, E., Dale, I. L., Davey, P. R. J., Davies, N. L., … Guichard, S.(2022). Discovery of a Potent and Selective ATAD2 Bromodomain Inhibitor with Antiproliferative Activity in Breast Cancer Models. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 65. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01871
Holdgate, G. A., Bardelle, C., Lanne, A., Read, J., O'Donovan, D. H., Smith, J. M., … Sheppard, R. (2022). Drug discovery for epigenetics targets. Drug Discovery Today, Vol. 27.doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2021.10.020

Clare, R. H., Bardelle, C., Harper, P., Hong, W. D., Börjesson, U., Johnston, K. L., … Ward, S. A. (2019).Industrial scale high-throughput screening delivers multiple fast acting macrofilaricides. Nature Communications, 10. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07826-2

Bardelle, C., Sauzeau, V., Carter, M. B., Liu, Z., Loirand, G., & Murray, D. (2018). High Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Rac1 GTPase by Flow Cytometry. doi:10.5772/intechopen.71074

Ding, M., Clark, R., Bardelle, C., Backmark, A., Norris, T., Williams, W., … Howes, R. (2018). Application of High-Throughput Flow Cytometry in Early Drug Discovery: An AstraZeneca Perspective. SLAS Discovery, 23. doi:10.1177/2472555218775074

Bardelle, C., & Boros, J. (2017). ATM kinase inhibitors: HTS cellular imaging assay using cellomicsTM arrayscan VTI platform. Methods Mol Biol, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-6955-5_5

Ding, M., Kaspersson, K., Murray, D., & Bardelle, C. (2017). High-throughput flow cytometry for drug discovery: principles, applications, and case studies. Drug Discovery Today, Vol. 22. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2017.09.005

Durant, S. T., Karlin, J., Pike, K., Colclough, N., Mukhopadhyay, N., Ahmad, S. F., … Valerie, K. (2016). Abstract 3041: Blood-brain barrier penetrating ATM inhibitor (AZ32) radiosensitises intracranial gliomas in mice. Cancer Research, 76. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-3041

Bardelle, C., McWilliams, L., Mounfield, S., Wigglesworth, M., & Rich, K. (2015). Validation of Miniaturized One-Step Reverse Transcription qPCR Assays for High-Throughput Screening and Comparison to a Reporter Gene Methodology. Assay and Drug Development Technologies, 13. doi:10.1089/adt.2014.630

Kettle, J. G., Ballard, P., Bardelle, C., Cockerill, M., Colclough, N., Critchlow, S. E., … Whittaker, D. (2015). Discovery and optimization of a novel series of dyrk1b kinase inhibitors to explore a MEK resistance hypothesis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 58. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00098

Bardelle, C., & Boros, J. (2012). Development of a high-content high-throughput screening assay for the discovery of ATM signaling inhibitors. Journal of Biomolecular Screening, 17. doi:10.1177/1087057112448529

Bardelle, C., Barlaam, B., Brooks, N., Coleman, T., Cross, D., Ducray, R., … Read, J. (2011). ChemInform Abstract: Inhibitors of the Tyrosine Kinase EphB4. Part 3. Identification of Non‐benzodioxole‐Based Kinase Inhibitors. ChemInform, 42. doi:10.1002/chin.201107189

Allen, J. V., Bardelle, C., Blades, K., Buttar, D., Chapman, L., Colclough, N., … Slater, A. M. (2011). The discovery of benzanilides as c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors by a directed screening approach. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.07.047

Barlaam, B., Ducray, R., Brempt, C. L. V. D., Plé, P., Bardelle, C., Brooks, N., … Read, J. (2011). Inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase EphB4. Part 4: Discovery and optimization of a benzylic alcohol series. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.03.009

Bardelle, C., Barlaam, B., Brooks, N., Coleman, T., Cross, D., Ducray, R., … Read, J. (2010). Inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase EphB4. Part 3: Identification of non-benzodioxole-based kinase inhibitors. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 20. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.08.100

Bardelle, C., Coleman, T., Cross, D., Davenport, S., Kettle, J. G., Ko, E. J., … Williams, E. J. (2008). Inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase EphB4. Part 2: Structure-based discovery and optimisation of 3,5-bis substituted anilinopyrimidines. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 18. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.09.087

Whitfield, J., Harada, K., Bardelle, C., & Staddon, J. M. (2003). High-throughput methods to detect dimerization of Bcl-2 family proteins. Analytical Biochemistry, 322. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2003.07.014

Bardelle, C., Smales, C., Ito, M., Nomoto, K., Wong, E. Y. M., Kato, H., … Staddon, J. M. (1999). Phosphodiesterase 4 conformers: Preparation of recombinant enzymes and assay for inhibitors. Analytical Biochemistry, 275. doi:10.1006/abio.1999.4321

Bardelle C, Furie B, Furie BC, Gilbert GE. (1993). Membrane binding kinetics of factor VIII indicate a complex binding process. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 268. PMID: 8473326

Bihoreau N, Paolantonacci P, Bardelle C, Fontaine-Aupart MP, ... J, Romet-Lemonne JL. (1991).Structural and functional characterization of Factor VIII-delta II, a new recombinant Factor VIII lacking most of the B-domain. Biochemical Journal, 277. doi: 10.1042/bj2770023