Andy Jones has recently been appointed as ISCF Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Director. Andy has more than 30 years’ experience in development and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry took up his position in October. The challenge seeks to dramatically enhance the pace of development, manufacture and delivery of novel medicines in the UK and thus to increase the rate at which patients can access new medicines. Andy has held a number of senior positions during his career, and has been responsible for Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) development of multibillion dollar products in the fields of oncology, neuroscience and cardiovascular and metabolic disease. Dr Jones has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology and joined the pharmaceutical industry following a period of postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado.