Charlotte Bell
MSci, EngD
Program Director – Industry Liaison in Experimental Medicine
Charlotte oversees the Kennedy Institute’s Portfolio of Industry-Funded Experimental Medicine Programmes. Her role is in the effective initiation and delivery of programmes and collaborations to maximise the academic benefit of industrial collaborations in the early clinical development space. She manages the Oxford-GSK Experimental Medicine Collaboration a 5-year programme launched in 2025.
Prior to joining the Kennedy Institute Charlotte was a Senior Business Partnerships Manager in the Medical Sciences Division’s Business Partnerships Office and oversaw and managed strategic alliances with GSK, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine and UCB for 7 years. Charlotte has also held positions in Knowledge Exchange at the University of Bristol Faculty of Life Sciences and in the Business Interaction Unit at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) where she managed national collaborative R&D funding mechanisms, the Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst and several Industry clubs in Biopharma, Bioprocessing, Integrated Biorefining, Horticulture and Animal Health.
Charlotte completed an Engineering Doctorate in biopharmaceutical and bioprocess Engineering at Newcastle University in collaboration with GSK and Swiss Company ACL Instruments looking at advanced analytical and microbial methods for biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical products and processes. Prior to that she studied pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Nottingham School of Pharmacy.
During her time as an undergraduate and postgraduate she took a keen interest in business, innovation and entrepreneurship, electing modules in these areas and taking part in extra training and competitions. Realising that the bench was no longer for her, she decided to pursue a career in making strong collaborations happen and has been working in this area ever since.
Charlotte loves working with people across traditionally siloed disciplines to drive collaboration and ensure smooth running of large programmes and alliances. The most exciting part of her job is the variety of relationships and initiatives that she is involved in and the satisfaction she gets from problem solving to achieve goals and deliver objectives. The process engineer in her loves to make things work well, so efficiency and continuous improvement are high on her radar!