Point-2-Bacteria Ltd
Cheap, accurate, rapid, antibiotic resistance test. Selects right antibiotic, right infection, right time. Result 2 hrs before antibiotic prescribed.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Biotechnology
- Location Edinburgh, Scotland, GB
- Currency GBP
- Founded March 2014
- Employees 3
Company Summary
25% of antibiotics no longer work. There is an unmet need for a fast, accurate, cheap test predicting the antibiotic killing a given infection. This is not about new antibiotics but making best use of available antibiotics we already have. Provides physicians with information saving millions of lives & NHS £billions annually. Select the right antibiotic, for the right infection, at the right time. Technically impossible with any other technology.
Team
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Ray HarrisonCEORay Harrison has a genetic & business degree. Previously he worked for Thorn-EMI in scientific instrumentation. At McCann Erickson, in NYC, he worked biotech analysis and business development for many biotech businesses located the UK, US and Europe. He has raised £30m for US biotechs with European pharmaceutical & diagnostic corporations. He founded the genetic basis of Sciona, a company that went on to raise $10m with Burrell & Co, in Colorado
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Andy AllarsChairman electAndy Allars is a biochemist and established the biotech portfolio of Prelude Investments a Cambridge Seed Venture Capital company now owned by Espirit ZBD. Andy has placed 4 biotech companies on the LSE. He has vast experience in this field and is a potential Chairman and not yet joined the Company.
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Matthew PocockDrDr Matthew Pocock
Matthew took an undergraduate degree in genetics from Newcastle University and PhD jointly with Darwin College, Cambridge and the Sanger Centure, Hinxton, developing software platforms for the human genome project. Matthew's academic interests include software architecture, distributed computing, evolutionary computing, evolutionary biology, data integration, ontologies, and modeling of biological systems. -
DirectorProfessor Sebastian Amyes was professor of microbiology at Edinburgh University. Sebastian is a world authority on the β-lactamases. These enzyme groups were identified and sequenced by him in multi million £ projects, under his stewardship. He classified β-lactamases establishing the international convention of the field, with 500 publications. He has advised several pharmaceutical companies and a VC backed antibiotics company.
Advisors
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LindsaysLawyerUnconfirmed
BC Connor, CAAccountantUnconfirmed
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