Project Team
The team that developed the BRITS project valuation and business planning tool under the leadership of Simcha Jong, brings together inputs of different team members from the following BRITS collaboration partners.
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Simcha JongSimcha was the lead on the management part of the BRITS project. Simcha designed the BRITS tool’s functionality and oversaw its development. Simcha is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Management Science and Innovation at UCL. His research focuses on the organisation of R&D, business development, and product commercialisation in the life sciences sector. In addition, he has worked on healthcare operations management projects focused on the implementation of stratified medicine. Simcha’s research has been published in top-international journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, and Industrial and Corporate Change. Simcha has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy, and an MPhil in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge. View Profile Hsini Huang
Hsini obtained her PhD at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interest focuses on the economics of innovation, economic geography, and science and technology policy. She has published on topics relating to academic entrepreneurship and innovation districts in top international journals such as Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society, and Research Policy. Hsini currently is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at National Taiwan University. View Profile |
Enrico Forti
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Sally HassanSally worked on the BRITS project as a Research Associate on the BRITS project and collected data on manufacturing costs for the BRITS cell therapy project planning and valuation tool. Sally’s current research interests also include the production of biopharmaceuticals in transgenic plants, plasmid DNA production and small-scale fermentation. She enjoys applied scientific research and hopes to stay in this area. Sally obtained her PhD at the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering.View Profile |
Suzy Farid
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Chris Mason
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Members of the LONZA team contributing to the BRITS project have provided important feedback in the development of the BRITS business planning and valuation tool. Jesus Zurdo, Behzad Mahdavi, Kim Warren, and Phil Vanek (currently with GE Healthcare), have been particularly important in the tool’s development.
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