Research & Development – Marie Smedley
Clockwise from top: Marie (centre) with some of the Novartis Animal Health staff; with Jason McGrattan; with George Gunn; with Spencer Russell
Winning days
NOVARTIS ANIMAL HEALTH YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD WINNER MARIE SMEDLEY TALKS TO FISH FARMER ABOUT HER VISIT TO NOVARTIS ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA
ture UK earlier this year for her presentation on her research on triploid salmon at the University of Stirling, PhD candidate Marie Smed- ley was invited to the NAH facilities on Prince Edward Island in Canada. ‘The trip went really well’, says Smedley. ‘Prince Edward Island is really beautiful; it’s very small and in many ways it’s very similar to Scotland, except instead of deer they have moose.’ She was taken around the facilities by Jason Cleaversmith, head of Aqua Health for Prince Edward Island, and Spencer Russell, a manager for the aqua vaccine discovery at
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s part of her prize for winning the Novartis An- imal Health (NAH) Young Scientist award at Aquacul-
NAH. ‘I was shown around the R&D department; it was fascinating to see how the process of vaccine discovery works. I also saw the Technical Operations department, where I witnessed fi rst-hand how vaccines are made commercially,’ she explains.
During her visit, Smedley was also given the opportunity to present her winning talk to the scientists at NAH. ‘It was nerve-wracking, but I was given a good reception, and it was great to share my research with indus- try professionals’, she says. ‘I was also lucky to meet George Gunn, Head of Novartis Animal Health, who was there to give a talk to the staff.’ As well as the full tour of NAH,
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Smedley also visited the Cooke Aquaculture farms, as well as its processing plant. ‘This was particularly interesting for me, coming from a production side of things,’ she says. The trip also in- cluded a visit to the AquaBounty facility. ‘We weren’t allowed inside the unit’, explains Smedley, ‘but they brought out some of their diploid, triploid and transgenic salmon to show us. It was great to compare notes with them about triploids. ‘All in all my trip to Prince Ed-
ward Island was really rewarding. Not only did I meet a lot of inter- esting people, it has also given me a good perspective on the range of options available to me once I have completed my PhD.’ FF
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Prince Edward Island is like Scotland, except
instead of deer it has moose
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