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Lekan Daramola

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Lekan Daramola is an independent consultant who specialises in supporting biotech companies during the critical early drug development activities, enabling successful preclinical and clinical decisions as they develop new drugs for patients.

Lekan has extensive experience working in the biopharmaceutical industry, with over 26 years contribution to different areas of biologics drug development. Lekan’s experience spans lead drug molecule selection to regulatory submission. His expertise includes molecular biology, mammalian recombinant protein expression technologies, cell line development and early CMC support. In addition, he also has expertise in the development of novel drug modalities like nucleic acid drugs/vaccine (RNA, DNA) as well as AAV (viral vector) production platform development.

Prior to his current role, Lekan was a Senior Director at AstraZeneca, managing mammalian expression activities, the development of nucleic acid and AAV production capabilities to deliver preclinical and clinical drug development goals. Lekan hold a M.Sc. in Medical Microbiology from the University of Surrey.

Lekan Daramola’s courses

  • 10 Nov • 5 day course

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

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Reviews for Lekan’s courses

I am really happy I found this course and am grateful to all of the speakers and IPI Academy for putting everything together. The experience was brilliant and I truly feel like I learned so much over the 3 days. There was a lot of content but it was very well explained and the interactive element clarified any elements that didn't immediately click. All speakers were incredibly engaging and clearly extremely knowledgeable. I feel I now have a much clearer understanding of all my learning objectives and more. Being able to ask questions along the way really helped embed my understanding, particularly of complex scientific concepts. 10/10 have already been recommending to others in my sector.

9 Jul 2025

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

All of the speakers were very knowledgeable, well prepared and presented the topics in a structured and comprehensible manner. A session I thought would be rather arid turned out to be entertaining and instructive at the same time. The seminar gave a very complete overview of the topics.

2 Dec 2024

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

I wanted to get a good overview of biotechnology: history, development, science, processes, regulations and future and this goal was 100% fulfilled.

All lecturers were highly competent in terms of content and style of presentation.

2 Dec 2024

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

Content flow is well designed and good. [Parts I particularly liked were] process economy , Upstream and Downstream scale up.

25 Sep 2024

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

Excellent, I am so please a colleague mentioned to IPI to me.

25 Sep 2024

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

I thought all the speakers were excellent. You could tell that they all really knew there subject matter and were so passionate in the way they delivered the content. Special mention has to go to Adekunle - fantastic course leader and so knowledgeable and made the 3 days very interactive.

27 Sep 2023

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

The course was good and it was a pleasure to learn from the speakers. I wanted to get an overview of research and development of drugs and pharmaceuticals. I think this was achieved.

27 Sep 2023

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

It was great. All speakers presented well and were knowledgeable about the Industry/topic.

5 Dec 2022

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist

I have a masters in Biochemistry and have worked as a formulation scientist for 1 year so I wanted to gain more applied knowledge, and a broader understanding of the drug development process. I found the content of this webinar easy to understand and it was nice to have the information presented to me in an organised and coherent manner.

5 Dec 2022

Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist