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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Glasgow based Founder operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Colin Espie
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Big Health
Colin Espie is Founder at Big Health.
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About Big Health, Sleepio, University of Glasgow, University of Oxford: Big Health is a digital therapeutics company operating a healthcare portal to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Cameron Graham
Co-Founder & CEO of Storii
Cameron Graham is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at StoriiCare.
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About Entrepreneurial Scotland, Storii, University of Strathclyde: Software for Senior Care
Arturas Sikorskis
Co-Founder of Storii
Arturas Sikorskis is a Co-Founder at StoriiCare.
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About Storii: Software for Senior Care
Vitalij Kornijenko
Co-Founder & Software Engineer of Storii
Vitalij Kornijenko is a Co-Founder and Software Engineer at StoriiCare.
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About Storii: Software for Senior Care
David Sibbald
CEO and Co-Founder of Aridhia Informatics
David Sibbald is the co-founder and CEO of Aridhia, a health data science company which develops and runs a cloud-enabled Digital Research Environment for clinical research, precision medicine and healthcare applications. David is the Founder and Trustee of the Kate MacAskill Foundation, a charitable organisation providing education, care and micro-enterprise funding for children and young adults in the developing world and is Chairman of the Johari Foundation. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Glasgow University, Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Paisley and the University of Strathclyde for services to Scottish science and philanthropy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters. In the 2010 New Year Honours List, David was awarded an OBE for charitable services in Scotland and overseas.
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About Aridhia Informatics, Kate MacAskill Foundation: Aridhia informatics provides biomedical informatics and analytics services to improve the management of chronic diseases.
Rogelio Arellano
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Alex Papanikolaou
Founder and Technical Director of Freedom One Life
Born with Athetoid cerebral palsy, from a young age, I have been determined that whatever physical difference I have, it isn’t going to stop me from living and experiencing life in the way that I want, and from doing the things I want to do in the way that I want to do them. My experiences and insights have led me to starting Freedom One Life, to inspire and empower people living with a physical disability. Enabling people around the world to expect and demand the same standard of living and mobility that a non-disabled person takes for granted. The first product is a game changing next generation power wheelchair. I have worked in national retail stores, driven around the country and travelled around the world with my power wheelchair. I have consulted internationally on access, equality, inclusiveness and I’ve been part of progressive change towards creating more inclusive environments.
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About Freedom One Life: Redefining mobility
Neal L Millar
Co Founder & CMO of Causeway Therapeutics
Neal is an Academic Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in shoulder surgery having completed fellowships in Sydney and New York and is an expert in human tendinopathy.
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About Causeway Therapeutics, University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow: A bio pharmaceutical spin out emerging.
Derek Gilchrist
Co Founder & CEO of Causeway Therapeutics
Derek is a principal investigator at the University of Glasgow and leads the scientific and technical development of TenoMiR™.
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About Causeway Therapeutics, University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow: A bio pharmaceutical spin out emerging.
Jo Halliday
Founder, CEO of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Scott Crae
Founder of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
David Heath
Founder & CEO of Cutitronics
David Heath is Founder & CEO of Cutitronics and is the very reason we are all here. He provides leadership, guidance and inspiration on a daily basis. David’s extensive academic career led him to qualify as a medical devices researcher with degrees in physics and engineering, working in a multidisciplinary clinical, commercial and engineering team. Throughout his PhD and post-doctoral research, he focussed on transdermal medical technology. But it was while presenting at a skincare conference that David had his “light bulb moment”, realising that the expertise he developed working on transdermal medical technology could be reapplied to solve some of the major challenges of the cosmetic skincare industry. And from here Cutitronics was born! David secured funding to develop technology for the cosmetic skincare industry and validate his innovation both technically and commercially. During this time, the company was spun out of the University of Strathclyde, receiving recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and ERA Foundation for both his entrepreneurial approach and outstanding technology innovation. In 2015 David began to recruit the Cutitronics team, bringing together the experience and expertise essential to launching such disruptive technology into the skincare market.
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About Cutitronics: Cutitronics is skincare start-up
Iain McDougall
CEO and Co-Founder of Taragenyx
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About Taragenyx: Regenerating orthopedic and dental implant design to help patients heal faster with far less pain.
