Dr Alasdair Robertson is a cell biologist and co-founder of SAL Scientific Ltd, a cell biology contract research organisation providing outsourced cell culture and assay development services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, where he is involved in all aspects of business development, administration, fundraising, service delivery, and new product development. Prior to establishing SAL Scientific, he was Head of Biology at Genetix/Molecular Devices where he led a team of post-doctoral and graduate scientists and was responsible for leading in-house innovation, project management, product validation, and all reagent and assay design and development activities. He is currently a core member of BBSRC Research Committee D (since 2012) and served on the BBSRC industrial CASE studentship panel from 2011 to 2013.