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On the cutting edge: an interview with Saleha Patel


Saleha Patel is the Board Director and recently appointed Chair of the Scientific Programme Workgroup at the European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK and is an Associate Principal Scientist in the Emerging Innovations Unit at AstraZeneca (Cambridge, UK). In this interview, Content Editor Aisha Al-Janabi spoke with Saleha about her career path, advice to those wanting to transition from academia to industry and what the ELRIG Research and Innovation (R&I) conference (Hinxton Hall Conference Center, Cambridgeshire, UK) is all about. Could you tell me about your career path? I want to start by telling you that I went through clearing*....

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