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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 Oxford based Director operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Director 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.
Dennis Engelke
Executive Director, Country Manager Switzerland & Austria of Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Dennis Engelke is the director of business analysis and insight at [Jazz Pharmaceuticals](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jazz-pharmaceuticals), an international biopharmaceutical company. Engelke holds an MBA from Uppsala University and an MBA from the University of Hamburg.
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About Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that identifies, develops and commercializes innovative treatments.
Andrew Barker
Co-Founder & Director of Intelligent Ultrasound
Andrew Barker is the Chairman at Oxford Brain Diagnostics .
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About Anchard Associates, Brainomix, Intelligent Ultrasound, Oxford Brain Diagnostics: Intelligent Ultrasound develops software that improves the quality, reliability, and diagnostic power of medical ultrasound.
Steve Lane
Commercial Director UK & Europe of Quanta
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About Quanta: Quanta develops an advanced haemodialysis systems for use in the home and clinic.
Soren Krogsgaard Thomsen
Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of BioMe Oxford
Soren is a medical scientist at the University of Oxford, with a background in the natural sciences and genetics research. He previously worked as a consultant for pharma and OBR consulting, and has published on his experiences as an academic entrepreneur. Soren’s current research is focused on translating large-scale genetic data into mechanisms for disease to inform new therapeutic strategies. He dreams of one day enabling similar population-wide microbiome studies using the platform technology under development at BioMe Oxford Ltd.
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About BioMe Oxford, Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Unlocking your gut microbiome by developing a medical device for targeted and non-invasive sampling
Chris Jones
Non Executive Director & Special Advisor of MediSieve
Chris Jones joined Elasmogen as Executive Chairman in 2016.
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About Elasmogen, MediSieve, Mologic: MediSieve is a therapeutics company developing a platform technology for the treatment of blood-borne diseases.
Jessica Bruce
Founder & Managing Director of Run3D
Dr. Jessica Leitch has a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in running injury biomechanics. After completing her Ph.D., her aim was to make the technology that she had used in her research accessible to all runners throughout the UK, and in setting up Run3D she achieved this goal. Jessica leads the Run3D team and brings her biomechanical expertise to the clinical assessments. In addition, Jessica is a Visiting-Fellow at the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University and sits on the editorial board of the journal Gait and Posture. A passionate runner herself, Jessica has represented Wales in cross-country and road running events.
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About Run3D: Run3D provides an accurate and objective assessment of your biomechanics in order to understand the root-cause of injury and provide you
Gil McVean
Co Founder & Director of Genomics
Gil McVean is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford and Head of Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. After an undergraduate training in Zoology, he obtained a PhD with Laurence Hurst in Cambridge and worked with Brian and Deborah Charlesworth in Edinburgh before joining Oxford in 2000. His research focuses on understanding the molecular and evolutionary processes that shape genetic variation in populations and the relationship between genetic variation and phenotype. He has made contributions to our understanding of areas including recombination hotspots, historical patterns of natural selection, the male mutation rate, human genetic variation, the role of HLA in complex disease and genealogical processes. He has played a leading role in the HapMap and 1000 Genomes Projects and currently works on organisms from HIV to malaria.
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About Genomics: Genomics plc aiming to lead the genomic transformation of healthcare.
Oliver Kessler
Founder, Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer of Orthox Ltd.
Oliver Kessler is a practising knee surgeon based in Zurich with a strong track record of biomaterials research and a focus on meniscal and cartilage repair systems and joint kinematics. He spent 6 years at Stryker Orthopaedics as Director of Orthobiologics supervising a major meniscal tissue engineering programme. He has extensive contacts within both the orthopaedic industry and the surgical community and is responsible for overseeing clinical development of Orthox’s product pipeline.
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About Orthox Ltd.: Orthox develops tissue regenerative implants that address large injuries to cartilage tissues in which early osteoarthritis may be present.
Jonathan Hollick
Managing Director of Breakpoint Therapeutics
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About Breakpoint Therapeutics: Breakpoint Therapeutics is a company that discover and develop new anti-cancer drugs.
Sally Adams
Development Director of Scancell
Dr. Sally Adams was Head of Neurology & Virology at British Biotech and Development Director at Neures Limited before becoming an independent consultant providing drug development and management services within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors, specializing in biological entities. She has worked on many complex projects over the past 25 years including anti-infective vaccines, cancer immunotherapies and an innovative stem cell treatment for visual dysfunction. Sally previously worked as a development consultant to Scancell, providing guidance on the development of SCIB1, before her appointment as Development Director in May 2014.
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About Scancell: Scancell is focused on developing innovative immunotherapies for cancer that stimulate the body’s own immune system.
Richard Saunders
Technical Director International Regulatory Affairs of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Richard Saunders is the Technical Director International Regulatory Affairs at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.
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About Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is a company that makes in vitro diagnostics products.
