Spotlight on... Vassilis Georgiadis

This week we meet Vassilis Georgiadis - Principal Partnerships Manager (Pharma and Healthcare) at UCL Innovation & Enterprise - who chats to us about his work on a partnership between UCL and international pharmaceutical company Servier on immuno-inflammatory disease research. What is your role and what does it involve?. I'm Principal Partnerships Manager (Pharma and Healthcare) in the Business and Innovation Partnerships team at UCL Innovation & Enterprise. My main role involves developing partnerships between UCL researchers and external organisations, with a focus on collaborations relating to life sciences and healthcare. I am not tied to specific UCL faculties or departments and in fact that is one of the best aspects of my job. Every day is different, projects and queries flow in continuously and my specific actions vary: from scoping for research theme alignment and advising researchers, to developing capability proposals, identifying potential routes of funding, steering agreement development in tandem with UCL legal teams, collaborating with other teams across UCL, such as the Translational Research Office, Office of the Vice-Provost (Advancement) and others, as well as teams within UCL Innovation & Enterprise such as UCL Consultants and UCL Business (UCLB). When your playing field is one of the leading research academic institutions in the world and you are surrounded by outstanding colleagues at every turn, the world is your oyster as they say.