Company News and Events
Below are a links to our latest newsletters. You can also view them online.
Rick Davies thoughts on his first 2 months at Sygnature
Rick Davies joined Sygnature Protein Science and Structural Biology (formerly Peak Proteins) as the new Director in January this year. He joins the company [...]
10 Years Ago Peak Proteins Was Born
Our founder Mark Abbott takes us through the story of Peak Proteins. From the initial conception to the current status as part of Sygnature [...]
Contributing to the Development of New Anti-Thrombotic Biotherapeutics
Two Peak/Sygnature scientists, Juli Warwicker and Mark Abbott, have recently co-authored a paper on a new family of anti-thrombotic biotherapeutics. The paper is from [...]
Sygnature Discovery HPLC-FSEC / SEC-MALS Analytical Platform
We are delighted to announce that our new HPLC-FSEC / SEC-MALS platform is now up and running. We've chosen an Agilent BioInert HPLC system [...]
A Peak Inside Peak Proteins: Year 12 Students Come for a Site Visit for Some Career Inspiration
Last week a group of 15 sixth form students from All Hallows Catholic College came to visit Peak Proteins as part of their NCS [...]
Reflections on the Fidabio US User Group Meeting
At the recent FidaBio US User Group Meeting held in Boston, Duncan Smith was invited to give a talk highlighting how the Fida technology [...]
We welcome Rachel Johnson, another addition to our experienced Cryo-EM team
Sygnature Discovery is delighted to welcome Rachel Johnson to the Peak Proteins team. Rachel’s arrival highlights our commitment to offering our clients an exceptional [...]
IniXium and Peak Proteins – Stronger Together
As you will recall, Peak Proteins were acquired by Sygnature Discovery in April 2022. Now, that Sygnature have subsequently completed the acquisition of NuChem [...]
Peak Proteins Enters The ASM Agar Art Contest
In the spirit of International Microorganisms Day (17th September) we have been inspired to enter the highly competitive American Society for Microbiology agar art [...]
Celebrating The Peak Protein’s Team Reaching 50
It is 9 years since the formation of Peak Proteins and in July this year, with the arrival of Ariadna Juarez-Martinez, we reached 50 [...]
SYGNATURE DISCOVERY ACCELERATES GLOBAL GROWTH WITH MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITION
Leading integrated drug discovery partner, Sygnature Discovery (“Sygnature”) has announced its acquisition of one of North America’s largest discovery Contract Research Organisations, Canada-based NuChem [...]
Peak-ing the scientific interest of local students
At Peak Proteins we firmly believe in the transformative power of scientific education and inspiring young minds. While our primary role revolves around providing support [...]
We say goodbye to Hazel Weir
It is with a tear in the eye that we say a fond farewell to Hazel and wish her safe travels and a following wind [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Valerie Pye
Peak Proteins is delighted to welcome Dr Valerie Pye as a Senior Principal Protein Crystallographer to the team. As an experienced protein structural biologist, [...]
Rapid Assessment of Membrane Protein Quality by Fluorescent Size Exclusion Chromatography
Researchers from Peak Proteins (part of Sygnature Discovery Ltd.) have recently published a research paper in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. The paper entitled [...]
Peak Proteins’ take on ‘A Christmas Carol’
by Head of BD, Hazel Weir. Thinking back on 2022 - a pretty momentous year for Peak Proteins (as well as the rest of [...]
Margaret’s Christmas Cards
Christmas Congratulations to our artist-in-residence, Margaret Veldman-Jones, who recently raised over £400 for our nominated local charity, the East Cheshire Hospice, by selling her [...]
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
Last week, one of our experienced graduate protein scientists, Naimah Begum, was asked to be a panellist at a plenary session held for over [...]
We say goodbye to Amelia Tollet
As we say farewell to Amelia Tollet at the end of her three month summer internship at Peak Proteins, Hazel Weir, Director of BD, [...]
Peak Proteins Adopts the Fida 1 Platform
We are delighted to announce we have recently acquired a new instrument and software, the Fida 1 platform…from FidaBio! Why Fidabio? We were looking [...]
Advancing the Biophysical Characterisation of Membrane Protein Targets in Drug Discovery: a Sygnature Discovery, Peak Proteins and Cytiva Collaboration
We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between protein scientists at Peak Proteins (now a Sygnature Company), members of the biophysics team at Sygnature [...]
Work Experience for High School and Sixth Form Students
Peak Proteins was delighted to welcome 6 high school and sixth form students for work experience in the final weeks of school term. Sophie [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Amelia Tollet
Peak Proteins is delighted to welcome Amelia Tollet who joins us for a three-month internship. A second-year biochemistry student at the University of Liverpool, [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Dr Katie Jameson
Peak Proteins is delighted to welcome Dr Katie Jameson. An innovative and experienced biochemist with a passion for protein science, Katie has extensive knowledge [...]
Day in the Life of Business Development
Dr Martin Jennings talks about what it's like to work in Peak Proteins as a Business Development Associate. Have you ever thought, what really [...]
