Elaine is a healthcare and biotechnology entrepreneur. She has over 25 years’ healthcare and biotechnology experience with a background in nursing, genetics, accounting and running hospitals. She founded a pioneering British life sciences company QuantuMDx Group. The company has excelled in medical innovation, developing a low-cost handheld molecular lab with inbuilt DNA sequencing to address humanitarian health challenges. It can detect and track emerging pandemics in real-time across developing and developed nations. This is revolutionary as less developed countries do not have access to DNA analysis through lack of stable electricity for a temperature-controlled environment and the skills needed to run the tests. The handheld device is battery-run, and is intuitive to use, which avoids these issues. It can give a result in a remarkable ten to twenty minutes. DNA analysis is vital to discover, to give just one example, what hereditary mutations are causing a family’s cancer. Elaine was awarded an OBE in the 2014 Queen’s New Year Honours for services to Innovation in Healthcare. She was also recognised as one of the top 50 women in tech in Europe through the InspiringFifty Europe 2022 Award, a global initiative to increase diversity in tech by recognising and amplifying the women excelling in STEM across the world.
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