A creative move for Margaret to the Peak Proteins team
We're delighted to have Margaret Veldman-Jones join the team to enhance our cell culture and protein expression capabilities. Find out more about Margaret's love of science, art and sport on our new-look team page.
Presentation at Biopharma Seminars Held in Hyderabad and Bangalore on 25th and 26th June.
Dr Mark Abbott, CEO of Peak Proteins, is travelling to India between the 24th and 25th of June to present a talk on “Mass Spectrometry is an Essential Tool to Understand Proteins; How to Make Them and Characterise Their Structures”. [...]
Interested in Becoming a COFUND MemTrain Fellow?
The Department of Biosciences at Aston University has recently been awarded the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie funded COFUND Doctoral Programme entitled MemTrain (Cell Membranes in Industrial Processes Training). Over five years, MemTrain will train 12 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs; within 4 [...]
Dr Mark Abbott Travels to India to Talk About Protein Mass Spectrometry
Dr Mark Abbott, CEO of Peak Proteins, is travelling to India between the 24th and 25th of June to present a talk on “Mass Spectrometry is an Essential Tool to Understand Proteins; How to Make Them and Characterise Their [...]
Peak Proteins Presenting at Industrial Biotechnology Careers Fair in Manchester
Dr Hazel Weir will be presenting at the Industrial Biotechnology Careers Fair at The Principal Manchester on the 10th June. Following the success of the Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy Careers Fair at The University of Sheffield last April, the [...]
Job vacancy for a Senior Protein Scientist
We are looking for a senior protein scientist skilled in protein engineering, expression and purification to be part of our rapidly growing team. Peak Proteins is a vibrant and growing contract research organisation that provides research services to clients [...]
Job vacancy for a Cell Culture Scientist
We are looking for a cell scientist to be part of our small, but rapidly growing team involved in the generation of recombinant proteins for use in the pharmaceutical industry. You must have cell culture experience and ideally you will [...]
Peak Proteins is at the 12th Annual Proteins and Antibodies Congress 24-25 Apr
Derek Ogg will be giving an SME Spotlight talk on Tues 24th April, highlighting our recent work using protein mass spectroscopy to deconvolute the post-translational modifications of recombinantly expressed G6b-B receptor; ultimately producing a protein suitable for crystallography and novel structure [...]
Presentation at ELRIG R&I meeting
Great to have our poster selected for an oral presentation at this year's ELRIG R&I meeting. G6b-B; a new receptor for platelet formation and function. https://peakproteins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ELRIG-2019-RI-poster-final.pdf Mark will be describing how we used protein mass spectroscopy to deconvolute the post-translational modifications [...]
First day of Spring and the Peak Proteins team is growing!
We're delighted to have Raquel Faba Rodríguez join the Peak Proteins team this month. Raquel completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia working on all aspects of X-ray crystallography, followed by some post-doc experience at the University of [...]
13 is our lucky number!
Whilst 13 might be thought of as unlucky for some, Peak Proteins is delighted to welcome our 13th member to the team! Steve Harbourne joins us following a 3 year post-doctoral position in Professor Adrian Goldman's lab in Leeds where [...]
Alderley Park Science Poster Showcase Event 7th Nov
A great opportunity this morning for Juli and Rachel to showcase how a combination of protein engineering and detailed mass spectrometry analysis of the expressed proteins can give the insight needed to generate protein crystals of a glycosylated receptor [...]
Peak Proteins at Bio Europe 2018
Kicking off November with a couple of European meetings, starting with Mark attending Europe's biggest life science and pharma partnering meeting, Bio Europe 2018 in Copenhagen. Lots of 1-2-1 meetings lined up!
ELRIG 2018
Peak Proteins will be exhibiting at this year's ELRIG 2018 Drug Discovery conference and running a “Problems with Proteins” drop-in clinic at their booth D5 on Tues 9th. So if you're having problems with expressing, purifying or crystallising proteins, then [...]
Cell Culture Considerations for Protein Expression
Want to know more about factors to consider when expressing proteins in eukaryotic cells? Have a read of Mark Abbott's article from the October issue of European Biopharmaceutical review to learn more https://peakproteins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EBR-article-peak-proteins.pdf
Launching the Peak Proteins Blog page
Have a look at our new Blog Page where we aim to provide helpful thoughts and insights into all aspects of protein expression, purification, crystallography and structure determination... and to mark the event, some creative artwork from Jon Renshaw in our [...]
Rachel takes the guesswork out of Mass Spec-ulation
A warm welcome to Rachel Rowlinson; the latest addition to our expanding team here at Peak Proteins. Rachel has over 20 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and brings with her a wealth of experience in protein mass spectrometry, N-terminal protein sequencing [...]
ELRIG 2018 Research and Innovation conference
Come and meet Mark in the Innovation Zone at ELRIG's Research and Innovation conference in Homerton College, Cambridge and find out more about our protein supply and structure determination services https://elrig.org/portfolio/ri2018/
A new month…..and a new addition to the team
A warm welcome to Jon Renshaw, who recently joined the team from AstraZeneca, bringing with him many years of experience in protein production, characterisation and latterly in mass spectrometry. Having supported a wide range of projects across various disease areas, Jon [...]
Bionow Cancer Conference 27th Feb
Looking forward to exhibiting at Bionow's Accelerating Cancer Drug Development conference on Tues 27th Feb at Alderley Park, Cheshire. Hope to see some of you there. http://www.bionow.co.uk/events/acceleratingcancerdrugdevelopmentfromtargett.aspx
