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David Brennan is a Principal Clinical Physicist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. He has significant experience in the technology and clinical applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and in image analysis. He runs a number of clinical services including, presurgical functional MRI and epilepsy image analysis services. David also provides clinical research services to a number of different research and clinical departments, including neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychology, psychology and neurophysiology. As well as academic qualifications David also holds a number of professional qualifications including MIPEM, CSci and is registered with the Health Professions Council as a State Registered Scientist. David also works as Director of Project Management for Aurum Biosciences Ltd. Aurum develops novel pharmaceuticals for use in a number of different clinical indications of high unmet medical need. Aurum is currently completing preclinical development of ABL101, its lead stroke management product, and envisages initiating clinical studies of efficacy and safety in the near future. Follow-on programmes include products for heart disease, cancer, epilepsy, and dementia. Aurum’s lead project utilises an oxygen carrier and proprietary software for use with MRI in Acute Ischaemic Stroke. Aurum has funding in place to initiate recruitment for a Phase 2 clinical study in stroke patients.