Funding and Mentoring Support for Medical Diagnostic Start-ups

By Lisa Mynheer, DiagnOx Manager at Oxford Innovation Ltd

Lisa Mynheer is Manager of DiagnOx, an initiative set up under the DTI's Biotechnology Exploitation Platform (BEP) Challenge to commercialise publicly funded diagnostics research in the UK. Her previous experience includes senior management positions at Serotec Ltd, where she established their antibody production facilities, and Oxford Bio-Innovation Ltd, a spin-out company from Oxford Brookes University that specialises in inhibin measurement. Lisa graduated in Combined Sciences from Leicester University and spent three years working in pathology research at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.