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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Health Diagnostics 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.
Sven Mischkewitz
CTO & Co-Founder of ThinkSono
Sven is an award-winning software engineer from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. Before joining Entrepreneur First, he worked on annotation tools for brain cells on projects for the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research. He focused on the field of Human-Computer-Interaction during his studies.
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About ThinkSono: Cutting edge AI ultrasound software for detection of blood clots (DVT)
Matt Elcock
Founder & CTO of Push Doctor
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About Push Doctor: Push Doctor is creating the future of healthcare.
Stephen Dunniece
CTO & Founder of Cirdan
A founder of Cirdan, Stephen studied at Belfast Institute and the University of Ulster where he completed a MSc. in Electronics and Signal Processing. After working in the Physics Dept at QUB he joined Belfast start-up Andor Technology Ltd. For the next 7 years, he undertook all aspects of camera hardware design. In 1999, Stephen became Director of his own business, Audio Control Systems Ltd, involved in the design and installation of interactive equipment for the special needs sector.
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About Cirdan: Cirdan delivers solutions that enable rapid implementation of a robust and scalable digital pathology workflow into a laboratory.
David Bunka
Director & CTO of Aptamer Group
Dave holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds and is a Geneticist by training. He spent 12 years developing high throughput automated aptamer selection methods at the University of Leeds. David has built up a solid international reputation in the field. Since 2003 David has isolated ~200 aptamers against a wide variety of targets including: small molecule antibiotics, food contaminants, disease associated proteins, several cancer associated cell-lines, viruses and patient tissue samples. Since joining the group officially in 2012 David had developed over 50 aptamers to various targets and has development several patentable process variations. David has authored several aptamer papers in peer reviewed journals, including 2 invited review articles and a book chapter in 2012 for the Royal Society of Chemistry entitled “therapeutic uses of nucleic acid aptamer conjugates”.
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About Aptamer Group: Aptamer Group develop DNA and RNA nucleic acid aptamers for use in R&D, biomarker discovery, diagnostics or therapeutic developments.
Gareth Jones
CTO of Jupiter Diagnostics
Gareth was previously the Assistant Director and Head and Science Chair of the Biology and Medicine College, Synchrotron Radiation Department at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Since 2006, he has created and advised on novel diagnostic technologies for 10 UK firms. He is a named inventor on 13 patents and has over 70 papers published including in Nature.
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About Jupiter Diagnostics: Jupiter Diagnostics has developed a diagnostic platform
Matthew Hicks
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Linear Diagnostics
Matthew Hicks is a Founder and executive director of Linear Diagnostics Limited. He has 20 years experience in biochemistry and biophysics in academic and commercial sectors and has published over 40 research papers. Matt, who holds several patents, has a doctorate in Biophysics. He is a world-leader in linear dichroism spectroscopy which is the underlying technology of LDL.
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About Linear Diagnostics, University of Birmingham: Linear Diagnostics Limited is a diagnostics company based on a novel 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.
