David Whitcombe

Fondateur chez DxS Ltd.

Profil

David is a Venture Partner with Catapult’s GM&C Life Sciences Fund, where he assesses investment opportunities and works with the Fund’s smaller investments to help companies successfully grow.
David is a well-known consultant and non-executive director/Chairman who co-founded DxS Diagnostics in 2000 to exploit a personalised medicine technology he had invented while with AstraZeneca Diagnostics.
DxS was sold to Qiagen in September 2009 for in excess of £100m.
Prior to DxS, David was Head of Technology Development at AstraZenica Diagnostics for four years where he led a team of up to 15 scientists working on new genome technologies.
David began his career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Warwick University Department of Biological Sciences, before joining Cambridge University Department of Medicine as a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow where he researched the Genetics of Human Disease for six years.
David holds a First Class BSc in Genetics from the University of York and PhD in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from the University of Leicester.

Postes actifs de David Whitcombe

Sociétés	Poste	Début
DxS Ltd.	Fondateur	22/09/2009
Cytox Ltd.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	-
Catapult Ultimate Holdings Ltd.	Private Equity Investor	-
Destina Genomics Ltd.	Président	01/09/2015

Anciens postes connus de David Whitcombe

Sociétés	Poste	Fin
Biofortuna Ltd.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	-
NanoFlex Ltd.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	-
AstraZeneca Diagnostics	Corporate Officer/Principal	-