Frances Holmwood
Network Partner
Frances has more than 30 years of experience in the drug discovery industry. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a degree in Chemistry and began her career as a synthetic organic chemist at the Sandoz Institute for Medical Research. In 1993, she joined Pfizer, Sandwich initially working on programs in the urogenital and sexual health therapeutic areas, such as M3 antagonists for incontinence and PDE5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction. Frances then took on responsibility for the creation of experimental and general routes sections of patents across the whole department, liaised with project chemists and attorneys regarding patent scopes and claims, and developed and presented IP related training courses for chemists at all levels of the organisation.
Frances then took on a number of roles of increasing seniority in business management across the research departments of Pfizer, Sandwich. She provided business and operational support to the chemistry and biology department leadership teams, with responsibility for departmental communications, information security, data and information management.
Frances has been a Network Partner since July 2017, focussed on providing chemistry patent writing support to small and medium-sized pharma companies.
Expertise
Chemistry-Synthetic, Patents, UK