Alison Jones
Alison Jones is a Senior Science Director at Charles River Laboratories, Cambridge, UK. She has almost 30 years’ experience in drug discovery working in small and medium sized biotechnology companies as well as in the CRO sector. As part of her current role, she drives the scientific strategy for small molecule discovery within Charles River, has strategic oversight of multiple integrated drug discovery projects, and is Scientific Portfolio Lead of Logica, an AI in drug discovery initiative. She is passionate about incorporating AI and automation into the drug discovery pathway as well as mentoring and training the next generation of drug discoverers. Alison is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and lectures to postgraduate students at University College, London.