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Christopher Schofield

Christopher Schofield BSc

Biotechnology, Cell and Developmental Biology
Brentford, England, United Kingdom

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Chris Schofield is an investigator in the Protein and Cellular Sciences department at GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Stevenage. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Applied Biology from the University of Coventry. Joining GSK in 1995 he has gained over 20 years industrial experience in protein expression supporting small molecule drug discovery.

He specialised in development of laboratory and pilot plant scale mammalian and insect cell culture systems including large scale baculovirus, bacMam and other transient systems. His cell culture expertise contributed to the development and implementation of frozen cell technology and the use of frozen isolated mitochondria from cell lines for high throughput screening. He is currently investigating the use of precision cut tissue slices and 3D cell culture models in early drug discovery.