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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 United Kingdom based Product operating in the Biotechnology space. If you think a Product 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.
Mark Milton-Edwards
Head of Product & Health Solutions – Digital Health of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Mark Milton-Edwards is the head of Product & Health Solutions – Digital Health at Teva Pharmaceuticals.
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About Swellaway, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, production and marketing of generic.
Abel Ureta-Vidal
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Eagle Genomics
With more than 12 years bioinformatics experience and a scientific background in molecular biology and immune-virology (PhD from the Pasteur Institute, France), Abel first mastered bioinformatics tools and code in the early 90s whilst working on viral phylogenetic studies. After his PhD, he joined the effort at Genoscope (Evry, France) in ramping up the human genome project, putting in place the automatic gene annotation system for human chromosome 14. In 2001, Abel moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK) where he led the Ensembl comparative genomics team until 2007. He founded Eagle shortly before graduating from the Cambridge Judge Business School MBA program in 2008.
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Alistair Johnson
Chief Product Officer of Congenica
A Chartered Accountant by vocation, Alistair has over 20 years of experience in Project Consultancy, Product Management and Product Marketing in a range of industries including Finance, IT Security, Medicines Supply Chain Management and IT Service Management. He has worked in companies of all sizes ranging from start-ups to global enterprises including Symantec and Infor. Alistair is uniquely positioned to understand and address the technical and commercial challenges of a delivering secure, high quality system with user experience at its core.
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About Congenica: Congenica is a biotechnology company that provides a diagnostic decision support platform.
Hugo Bailey
Head of Consumer Product of Zedsen
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About Zedsen: Zedsen provides biosensors that create a 3-Dimensional electrical field and gathers biological signals within a human body.
Jolyon Martin
Head of Product & Business Development of PetMedix
Jolyon undertook his PhD (Cambridge, UK) in Professor Bradley’s laboratory under his mentorship. He led the research and operational teams that made an in vivo model for caninizing the mouse immune system.
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About PetMedix: PetMedix is a pet therapeutics startup.
Niklas Friedberg
Head of Product & Co-founder of Clustermarket
Niklas Friedberg has been Head of Product at Clustermarket LTD. Niklas Friedberg has over 3 years experience in pharma, startups and commodity trading. He holds Master in International Business and Bachelor in Business and Finance.
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About Clustermarket: One lab management platform that brings people, equipment and data together – no matter where they are.
Salavat Magazov
New Product Introduction Manager of ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim
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About ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim: ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim is a global in vitro diagnostics company.
Igor Curcic
Head of Formulations Development & Production of Exosect
He is an expert in analytical instrumentation, method development and physical properties measurements. His background includes experimental design, catalysts synthesis, testing and characterization, chemical kinetics, high pressure reactors, separation techniques and nanoparticles. Prior to joining Exosect Igor worked at Syngenta.
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About Exosect: Exosect develops a platform technology and a range of natural bio-control products for the protection of food from pests and disease.
Andrea Gough
Product Manager of Solentim
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About Solentim: Solentim is dedicated to the development of innovative tools to shorten steps in the upstream cell line development workflow.
