Elaine Warburton OBE

Elaine is an entrepreneur with over 25 years’ healthcare and biotechnology experience. With an eclectic background in nursing, genetics, accounting and running hospitals, she currently heads up pioneering British biotech QuantuMDx Group.

QuantuMDx is developing a low cost handheld molecular lab with inbuilt DNA sequencing to address humanitarian health challenges and detect & track emerging pandemics in real-time across developing and developed nations through the Internet of Life™. The first assays to be commercialised later in 2015 are 15 minute infectious disease/drug resistance testing and companion diagnostics.

Elaine was awarded an OBE in the 2014 Queen’s New Year Honours for services to Innovation in Healthcare.