Josefine Woodley is currently working as European Sales Director for SCANBUR, which is a Danish company that provides capital equipment to the life sciences industry. Josefine has been with SCANBUR for 3 years now and is still responsible for all the UK customers.
Josefine moved to the UK in 2017 and has worked as a contract animal technician, Sales Executive and Development Director for various companies within the life science industry.
Josefine started her career in the life science industry at the University of Copenhagen as a trainee animal technician via the Danish Apprenticeship scheme in 2011. Throughout her six years at the University of Copenhagen, Josefine has worked as a Senior Animal Technician and Facility Manager, overseeing the University’s Apprenticeship scheme and teaching the FELASA surgical courses.

Toni Clark is currently the Deputy Facility Manager of the Kathleen Lonsdale Building on UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, a small but surprisingly complex fully IVC facility, housing some of the cleanest mice and a lot of the quarantine mice awaiting rederivation by their transgenic team.
Toni Achieved her MIAT many moons ago, but always thought she wasn’t smart enough to even think about the fellowship. She did summon up the courage to start the Level 4 Qualification once her children got older, but Covid got in the way and She needed to help them again with the changing dynamics of schools and exams hasn’t quite got back to it as yet but she is working on it!
Toni was lucky enough to start her career as a very green, young technician under the guidance of Ian Brown and Alan Graham. This allowed her to work with many species including ferrets, farm animals, cats, dog and Baboons!
She had a brief stint working for Imperial college for John Gregory & Mandy Thorpe running lots of isolators in the containment area before she moved to the Institute of Neurology as their Chief Technician under John Frogley.
She moved up to the deputy role and moved under UCL’s wing and after having her children she moved on from there to work in a few of the other Bloomsbury campus facilities before working with Paul Levy to close the windyer building and open the Kathleen Lonsdale building working with strict bio-securities to protect the rederived lines being kept there ever since.
Beyond her professional responsibilities, Toni is deeply committed to community service, serving as a Volunteer Responder for over ten years and volunteer Unit Manager for the last two. She volunteers via St John Ambulance on behalf of the London Ambulance Service responding to their Category one life threating calls.
When not at work or on duty, Toni, spends time her husband of over twenty five years – Stephen, teens Alex & Sydney, Benny the Lab and at least three cats.

Dr. Melanie Hoar-Phillips graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelors degree in Animal and Food Science (2009) and a Ph.D. in Ruminant Nutrition (2013). Post graduation, Melanie started her career as a dairy nutritionist for an independent feed mill in Pulaski, Wisconsin. In 2015, Melanie joined PMI Nutrition International in her current role as Senior Technical Services Consultant/Nutritionist. Melanie’s responsibilities include custom diet formulation and providing technical support to account managers, distributors, LabDiet® and TestDiet® quality teams to ensure customers receive high quality diets for animals used in biomedical research.

Becky is the Product & Operations Director at IPS, having successfully built a career there for the last 9 years, having achieved her IOSCM Level 5 Diploma in Supply chain & Operations Management. Becky has over 20 years of procurement and operational experience and has developed her skills to proactively operate a business and oversee those critical areas. Becky is currently actively developing the Mazuri Exotic Nutrition sector for IPS, and working with Zoo’s, Aquariums and private collectors within the U.K & Europe to build the knowledge and expertise Mazuri USA nutrition brings to all animal species.

Julie’s fascination with animals started young and led to a degree Zoology, a PhD in Physiology and a career in animal science. She has worked in diverse fields including renal failure, virology and influenza studies and has spent 15 plus years managing the preclinical imaging core facility at Barts Cancer Institute.
From ferrets to fish and a lot in between, Julie has enjoyed working with a range of research species and has developed a strong interest in animal welfare in research.
Julie’s interest in welfare and training has led to a career move and she is a recently hatched NTCO and training manager for Queen Mary University of London’s 3 BSU sites and deputy facility manager at the Charterhouse Square site

Dr. Elizabeth (Liz ) Hurd gained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol in sperm proteins involved in fertilisation. She then spent 10 years at the University of Michigan in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and then Paediatrics, specialising in Deafness and Hearing research using animal models. She returned to the UK in 2012 and took up a position as Transgenic Facility Manager for the MRC at the University of Edinburgh. This developed her interest in laboratory animal management and she continued to progress within the University which culminated in becoming Deputy Director of Facilities. In 2021 she took up the position of Director of Biological Services at the University of Glasgow. Liz is passionate about supporting and developing people to reach their full potential.