Chief Scientific & Innovation Officer
Louise has almost 30 years’ experience working across the health and life sciences spectrum, working within academia, biotech and medium and large pharmaceutical organisations; from target discovery and R&D through to product launch and lifecycle management. In 2024, she was awarded a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence fellowship to support research translation and commercialisation activities at the Babraham Institute.
Louise is Strategic Advisor to Enhanc3D Genomics, a Babraham Institute spin out company, a long-standing member of the British Society for Immunology and on the Editorial Board for Immunotherapy Advances journal.
The focus of Louise’s role is to continue to strengthen the collaborative culture of the Campus in line with its vision to be one of the best places in the world to start, scale, nurture and grow a life sciences business. The immediate priorities include growing and broadening the Campus’ strategic partnerships with corporates, service providers, investors and trade organisations committed to accelerating and enabling vibrant UK life sciences researchers and companies – both those currently on Campus and new innovators which will be attracted as the Campus grows.
Louise will also oversee and further develop various on-Campus initiatives, including Accelerate@Babraham (pre-seed company support programme created out of a desire to nurture early-stage life science ventures attempting to navigate the tough and fast-moving sector life sciences sector) and LiveLabs (flexible, co-working lab space, providing fully serviced and equipped labs ideal for molecular biology and cell culture work for early-stage life science companies).