ELRIG UK Establishes Engagement Technique Work Group

The European Laboratory Analysis & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK as we speak introduced the formation of its Engagement Technique Work Group (ESWG). The group will present strategic course and steering to assist make sure the ELRIG group continues to develop and thrive. It goals to interact audiences in several methods, past face-to-face occasions, broadening entry to high-quality science throughout a extra numerous and inclusive community.

ELRIG is a not-for-profit, volunteer-led group, comprising a various world community of over 22,000 life science professionals from biopharma, CRO’s, academia or with vendor firms. ELRIG goals to deliver the life science and drug discovery communities collectively to study, share, join, innovate, and collaborate, on an open-access foundation by way of the supply of conferences, networking occasions, webinars, and digital content material. The board delegates its duties to a collection of labor teams, who work with the ELRIG group to make sure it achieves these aims.

The ESWG will give attention to creating and implementing a cohesive digital content material technique, social media presence and media partnerships, bettering accessibility and inclusivity, and

creating further worth from its scientific content material. It would make key suggestions that assist the strategic pillars of the group and attempt to make sure that the views of all its group members are thought-about and represented in dialogue and selections.

Dr Chris Williams, ELRIG Board Member and Founder & Managing Director, Questae Teaching & Consulting, will lead the ESWG. She has over 20 years’ expertise within the pharmaceutical trade having labored at Pfizer, UCB, Ipsen and the NHS demonstrating a breadth of scientific, mission, enterprise, and alter administration expertise. Dr Williams shall be supported by ELRIG’s Sanj Kumar, CEO, and Emily Norman, Advertising and marketing & Communications Supervisor, and volunteers from throughout the scientific group: Abby Edwards, Senior Content material Editor at BioStrata; Alison Rawlinson, Head of Advertising and marketing at Qkine; Kayvan Richter, Analysis Communications and Advertising and marketing Supervisor at Most cancers Analysis UK; Dr Michelle Ricketts, Managing Director at Codon Communications; and Dr Sophie Rose, Head of Enterprise Growth, Europe at Metrion Biosciences.

“Pushed by the philosophy of sustainability and accessibility, we need to make it possible for our scientific content material could be reached by these not in a position to attend our occasions. While not being there in particular person means individuals don’t profit from the spontaneity and networking that occurs, we need to promote entry and digital connectivity to reinforce utility of scientific and technological improvements wherever you’re. We’re aiming to offer platforms for scientific trade that resonate whether or not you’re an early profession skilled, tutorial, entrepreneur or pharma/biotech chief. This mentality has provoked the change to a extra strategic take a look at other ways to interact our group by way of the ESWG,” stated Dr Chris Williams, Engagement Technique Work Group Lead, ELRIG UK, and Founder & Managing Director, Questae Teaching & Consulting.

“As ever, we’re really grateful to our volunteer members who’ve stepped ahead to hitch this group and are open to different functions from those that consider they will deliver these philosophies to life throughout our group,” she added.

The formation of the ESWG follows the reorganization of ELRIG’s governance and work group construction earlier this yr which noticed Saleha Patel, Affiliate Principal Scientist, Rising Improvements, Discovery Sciences, R&D at AstraZeneca, chosen as Chair of Scientific Programme Work Group, and Nick Clare, Interim Chief Enterprise Officer and VP of Strategic Alliances at DefiniGEN, appointed as Vendor Technique Work Group Lead.

Emily Norman, Advertising and marketing & Communications Supervisor, ELRIG UK, stated: “We’re captivated with participating our members within the high-quality content material we offer and dedicated to delivering complementary scientific programmes which might be related and reply to the wants of our numerous community. The newly fashioned Engagement Technique group will work alongside all ELRIG’s Work Teams to enhance entry to the scientific content material from our conferences and networking occasions by way of digital platforms, publications, and media partnerships, in addition to promote inclusivity, collaboration, and sustainability. In doing so, we hope to widen our attain into the life sciences group, attracting new members to our occasions and into the ELRIG group.”

For additional details about ELRIG’s Work Teams, please go to:

https://www.elrig.org/workgroups/ or meet the group at Drug Discovery 2023 going down in Liverpool, UK from 18–19 October.