Dr Mukesh Kumar

He is the cofounder and Technical Lead at Bailrigg Diagnostics Limited. Dr Kumar has been named as a finalist at the 2017 MIT Technology Review’s ‘Innovators Under 35 Europe’ awards in recognition for his work on technology to help improve clinical blood testing.

With over 10 years of extensive research experience he has managed a range of Medical Technology. Having worked with various microelectronic manufacturing companies, he has the breadth of experience to transfer the research output from laboratory to industrial applications.

An 'entrepreneurial team' under his leadership called “eBIOGEN” was declared the first runner up at an International business plan competition organised in India (2011). The business plan was also shortlisted for the finals at the world’s richest business competition, ‘RBPC 2012’ in Houston.
Dr Kumar’s research activities have been supported by various research grants such as Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, London), Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF, UK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK) and Leverhulme Grant, etc.

Dr Kumar graduated with BEng (First Class Honours) and a PhD Physics from Lancaster University. He has co-authored a number of high impact journals, and filed 2 patents, with more patents in preparation.

Rashmi Mukesh

She is a chemist with over 8 years of work experience in various roles in academia and industry. She has been awarded some competitive research grants in the UK and she worked as a PhD researcher at Lancaster University before co-founding Bailrigg Diagnostics. Rashmi is responsible for the lab operation and project management. She has been pro-active to develop and refine the business plan for the company. She holds a BSc Chemistry First class honours and a postgraduate degree with 1st class Distinction.

Incidentally she has also co-founded Bailrigg Immunodiagnostics Ltd, a start-up that focuses on the development of rapid and sensitive cardiac blood tests to address some unmet clinical needs.Rashmi is currently developing a rapid healthcare assay (point-of-care testing) that provides a measurement in minutes compared to hours, currently, for acute myocardial infarction (MI), where morbidity increases significantly with diagnosis time.

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