Philippa Crane

Philippa joined UKSPINE in November 2021, coming from a science policy background, where she has situated herself at the interface between academia and industry. Most recently this has involved research building on over 10 years’ experience in investigating the innovation ecosystem surrounding biomedical technologies, mainly at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. Her PhD looked into the dynamics of drug discovery and development, focusing on the non-technical contributors to the termination or successful development of therapeutic projects for rare cancers. Philippa also has experience in knowledge exchange whilst working for the Royal Society (the national academy for science in the UK and commonwealth), where she was part of a small Industry Programme, concerned with integrating industrial science into the broad-ranging activities across the organisation.