James Durkin

Chemist at Onyx Scientific

James Durkin is a skilled chemist currently employed at Onyx Scientific since June 2022, where the role has progressed from Junior Chemist. Prior to this position, James gained customer service experience as part of the Customer Experience Team at Sage Gateshead from September 2015 to September 2020 and worked as bar staff at Marco Pierre White Steakhouse and Grill Newcastle from July 2021 to June 2022. James holds a Master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry from Newcastle University, obtained from September 2019 to May 2022, and has a strong educational background that includes attendance at Newcastle Sixth Form College from 2016 to 2018 and Joseph Swan School from 2009 to 2015.

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Newcastle, United Kingdom

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Onyx Scientific

Onyx Scientific is a CDMO that helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the globe, accelerate candidates from discovery to manufacturing. A preferred partner of many of the world’s top pharmaceutical firms, it operates from MHRA and FDA licensed sites in UK and India. Supporting clients from medicinal chemistry and pre-clinical through Phase I-III, scaling-up to large scale commercial API production. Its UK-based labs deal with complex chemistry and deliver early stage programs involving custom synthesis, lead optimization, process development, solid-state chemistry and GMP API synthesis. It is then able to scale-up, internally tech transfer and provide increased efficiency for clients from its commercial sites in India.