Simon brings over two decades of strategic leadership and investment expertise across diagnostics, biotech, and digital health innovation.A seasoned healthcare investor and operator, Simon has spent close to 20 years at Roche, including 15 years with the Roche Venture Fund, where he invested in biotech, diagnostics, and digital health opportunities and served on boards across the US and Europe. He also built and led a Business Development and Partnering organization for one of Roche’s digital business areas, advancing global strategies and collaborations with GE Healthcare, Accenture, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon Web Services .Beyond his corporate experience, Simon actively supports early-stage startups, holding board roles and serving on an Investment Committee for a corporate VC fund.

Heinrich Roder is the founderof Biodesix with over two decades of experience in the biotech industry and commercialization. He has a track record of taking Biodesix from concept to IPO on the Nasdaq, and secure regulatory approval for a lung cancer liquid biopsy proteomics product, resulting in an annual revenue of $50million by 2023 and growing. He is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from the University of Oxford. With well-established experiences in liquid biopsy product commercialization and international networks, Heinrich is spearheading product development at Oxford Cancer Analytics.

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Andreas Halner is a Founder and the Head of Healthcare AI of Oxford Cancer Analytics.  He is a Forbes Europe Top 30 Under 30 for Healthcare and Science entrepreneur with a unique interdisciplinary background of medical and mathematical training. He completed pre-clinical medicine and a DPhil in Clinical Medicine and Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. Andreas has designed multiple new mathematical and clinical paradigms for defining disease states, developing algorithms for treatment outcome prediction and treatment monitoring. For five years, Andreas held the Head Pathology Tutor for Medicine post at St John’s College, leading one third of the medical curriculum for second year medical students and has also been the Chief Data Scientist of a European Clinical Research Collaboration on lung disease and has designed statistical analysis plans for a European-wide clinical trial.

Daniel Szulc is a physiologist turned engineer with a passion for innovation, collaboration, and communication. After completing a double major in physiology and chemistry he went on to achieve a doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto, where he was recognized as a UofT Top Scholar and Graduate to Watch for his impact as a STEM innovator and role model. His academic and industrial research spans the fields of biology, chemistry, medicine and physics and has led to several peer-reviewed manuscripts, inventions and collaborative projects awarded millions of research funding geared towards clinical translation. Alongside his passion for research and discovery, Daniel has actively sought to promote scientific communication and translation by leading the operations and strategic initiatives of both a national not-for-profit, Science Rendezvous, and an early-stage medtech start-up, Integral Health Systems, which developed next-generation software tools for surgical staff and medical personnel. Through these endeavours, he established national initiatives which engaged 25,000 students and created interdisciplinary networks with over 1600 scientists, clinicians, and engineers from 100 different academic disciplines across North America.

Harriet is an experienced bioinformatics scientist with expertise in analysis of LC-MS based proteomics and phosphoproteomics data.

After completing her Master of Science (MSci) at the University of Birmingham, Harriet pursued a PhD ausing phosphoproteomics, proteomics and interactomics to characterise mechanisms of ligand-mediated and trafficking-dependent receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signalling. After her PhD, Harriet joined a Manchester-based BioTech using phosphoproteomics for precision medicine, where she worked as a postdoctoral scientist across the entirety of the LC-MS phosphoproteomics pipeline, from sample preparation to data acquisition and analysis. Harriet is working with others in the OXcan team at the intersection of proteomics, bioinformatics, and machine learning to advance early cancer detection.

Ella Mi is a medical doctor specializing in oncology with a dual background in computer science. She holds an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in medical oncology at Oxford, and has led preclinical and clinical cancer research studies at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, with notable research achievements that includes identifying the most common genetic alteration in splenic marginal zone lymphoma, leading a longitudinal gastric cancer screening study and a machine learning programme to improve prognostication of brain tumours, which won the prestigious National Cancer Research Institute Award and received media coverage internationally. She obtained a 1st class Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a medical degree at the University of Cambridge and has undertaken her Masters in Computer Science at the University of Oxford as a DeepMind Scholar. Ella has a keen interest in accelerating the clinical uptake of new medical technologies, and previously worked on Interventional Procedures at NICE and on commercial projects with Google Health and Huma.

Priyanka Bhattarai was the Senior Manager of Global Commercial Access Partnerships at Pfizer, with over 7 years of experience in pharma and biotech, including Pfizer and Eli Lilly. In this capacity, she led commercial strategies in increasingly competitive areas, including oncology and vaccines, and drove project management for capital improvement initiatives. She has worked on the business development team of Oxford Cancer Analytics since 2023 and has since been contributing to market access and product deployment. She holds a MBA at the London Business School.

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Emma Mi is a doctor and clinical researcher, with focus in big data epidemiology and early cancer detection and risk prediction. She holds an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and has authored over 15 peer reviewed publications, including in the Lancet Digital Health, European Journal of Cancer and Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer. She has extensive experience in large health record data analysis, healthcare data management and governance, and has worked at NHS England, where she developed COVID-19-related data analytics and established the NHS Long COVID Registry. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Cambridge.