Dr Michael Egan

Dr Michael Egan joins iiCON as a Senior Business Development Manager. Mike is a Chartered Engineer (IET) and Chartered Manager (CMI) and brings nearly two decades of experience working at the interface between academia and industry covering fields in robotics, machine design, manufacturing, formulation, processing, scaleup and project management.

For the last 9 years he led the development and commercial/academic exploitation of the University of Liverpool’s Materials Innovation Factory automation capabilities. This included development of a £3M Henry Royce Institute funded automated robotic platform for material chemistry called the Formulation Engine.

In his new role, Mike will be a key part of the team developing the new £10m high-containment labs by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine-led iiCON. The labs will be equipped with robotics and AI that will dramatically accelerate the development of new treatments to fight deadly infections.

Contact: Mike.Egan@lstmed.ac.uk