Dr Mukesh Kumar
He is the cofounder and Technical Lead at Med Device Inc.. 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.
Nikin Tharan
Nikin is Head of Operations at Med Device Inc, a start-up that focuses on the development of point-of-care blood testing devices for both medical and sports diagnostic markets. At 16, he received a full scholarship to attend Northeastern University. After graduating, he helped commercialize novel radiation detectors at Guardion and is an alumnus of the Techstars-US Air Force accelerator. At MIT Hacking Medicine, his team won two prizes, and he co-founded Medsix, a medtech startup that develops novel sensors for wound drainage monitoring + predictive tools for better patient outcomes