The Team
Prof Richard Farndale
co-founder and CEO
Richard studied, among other things, Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, graduating in 1972.
He then joined a high tech company, Image Analysing Computers Ltd, working in their life science laboratory
on pattern recognition methodology being developed for cervical cancer screening and for leukocyte differential counting.
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Dr Arkadiusz Bonna
co-founder and CTO
Arkadiusz obtained his MSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Gdansk in 1999 and 2009,
both under the supervision of Professor Zbigniew Maćkiewicz.
He completed his postdoctoral studies in Inorganic Biochemistry in the world-leading group of Professor Wojciech Bal
at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS) in Warsaw,
having a four-year stipend from the Foundation for Polish Science. He served as a Lecturer, Supervisor, Assistant Professor and Head of the Peptide Synthesis Laboratory.
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Paul Whitmell FCA BSc
company secretary
Paul is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants who has specialised in helping Biotech Start-ups.
Paul was in public practice for over 25 years and has experience in taxation, charities,
self-employed and limited companies.
Although he sold his accountancy practice in 2021 he continues to offer services to a number of charities
and local companies where he can add value.
Paul was actively involved in setting up and the subsequent sale of Iontas to Fair Journey in 2019
and has considerable experience in the Biotech industry.
Paul has many interests outside of work, including being Chairman of Sawston Youth Group and
a Trustee of Sawston Childcare Nursery.
Paul assisted in setting up Triple Helical Peptides, and now acts as our Company Secretary.
Dr Joanna-Marie Dear
development manager
Joanna-Marie (Jo) Dear began her academic career in 2003 with her Biochemistry degree from the University
of Liverpool. As an undergraduate, she collaborated with the veterinary labs and Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) on a project focussing on metalloproteinases in snake venoms.
This led on to a PhD within LSTM; isolating haemorrhagic venom metalloproteinases and characterizing
their effects on blood coagulation and platelets.
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