Best Startup
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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Life Science space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Charles Blundell
Founder & CTO of C4X Discovery
Charles invented C4XD’s core Conformetrix technology, founded the Company and led the spin-out from The University of Manchester in 2008 with Dr. Andrew Almond. Charles has been awarded multiple grants from top UK research councils during his career and has published over 20 research articles in leading scientific journals. He studied for his undergraduate masters degree and DPhil in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford (Keble College), graduating within the top 5 of his peer group.
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About C4X Discovery: C4X Discovery brings a new dimension to drug discovery. Using its unique NMR-based technique to determine 3D molecular.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Jordan Van Flute
Co-Founder & CTO of Inovus Medical
Jordan is is a psychology graduate from Cardiff University. His main roll is head of the design and manufacturing team, the area in which he is the most passionate. It is his original research into psychomotor testing and laparoscopic surgery, which provided the fundamental ideas for the first Pyxus laparoscopic simulator.
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About Inovus Medical: The perfect package for any general surgical trainees or residents.
Marko Djukic
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Ingenii
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About : Ingenii is a data engineering platform that provides access to a growing library of data engineering tools and templates.
Niluka Satharasinghe
Co-Founder & CTO of Sparrho
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About Sparrho: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Idlir Liko
Co-Founder & CTO of OMass Technologies
Idlir Liko is currently the founder and Technology Director of OMass Therapeutics. He received a Master’s Degree from ETH Zurich in 2012 and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015, supervised by Prof. Dame Carol Robinson where he focused on the effect ligands and PTMs have on structure and stability of membrane proteins. His work was been featured in many high-impact publications. He has a wealth of experience in structural MS working in close collaboration with biotech and pharmaceutical companies. In 2016, he co-founded the company and has played a key role in transferring our technology from academia to industry.
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About OMass Technologies: OMass Technologies is a drug discovery company exploiting novel mass spectrometry platforms to develop therapeutics.
Gordon McInroy
Founder and CTO of Nuclera
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About Nuclera: Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis.
Alexander Kustov
CTO of Crowd.Science
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About Crowd.Science: Crowd.Science is a crowdfunding platform that supports scientists build a community of funders for their research.
Ben Holland
Co-founder and CTO of Antiverse
Ben Holland is the Co-founder and CTO at Antiverse.
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About Antiverse: Engineering the future of drug discovery
Murray Reed
CTO of Gooch & Housego
Murray Reed is the CEO of QLM Technology.
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About Gooch & Housego, QLM Technology: Gooch & Housego is a global leader in photonics technology.
Justin Buckland
CTO of LEX Diagnostics
Justin Buckland is the Chief Technology Officer of LEX Diagnostics.
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About LEX Diagnostics: LEX Diagnostics is a medical device company that specializes in molecular diagnostics for primary care.
