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Talking TPD with Ben Cross, CTO and Head of Platform at PhoreMost

Edited by Tom Cohen | 22 November 2023
Delving into PhoreMost's role in targeted protein degradation, the innovation behind the SITESEEKER platform, and the challenges and breakthroughs in the dynamic field of drug discovery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuUuCBLDw3Y&ab_channel=OxfordGlobal

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Speaker Biographies

Benedict Cross is CTO at PhoreMost, a next-generation target and drug discovery company. He joined in 2019 to lead the evolution and development of the SITESEEKER® screening platform which uses PROTEINi to discover new drugs. Before PhoreMost, Ben founded and led the CRISPR-based functional genomic screening department at the leading UK gene editing biotech, Horizon Discovery. He is a geneticist and biotechnologist, with over ten years of professional research and management experience and has a background in proteostasis and chemical genetic screening

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