Thane Campbell
Deep Science Ventures is creating a future where humanity and the planet
thrive, combining available scientific knowledge and founder-type scientists into high-impact ventures. Deep Science Ventures operates in 4 sectors: Agriculture, Climate, Computation and Pharmaceuticals, tackling the challenges defining those areas by taking a first-principles
approach and partnering with leading institutions.
We are launching a new PhD program - the Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) - tackling the critical bottleneck in science commercialisation: Talent. I am Project Leader for the VSD, a venture-focused, truly inclusive PhD program.
My doctoral research combined novel biomarkers and neural networks to predict immune responses, with GSK. I went on to launch Scotland’s first venture builder. I've worked with government agencies, leading universities and venture builders on the VSD. My work is supported by the Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows program.
Education
Doctoral
2020 – 2020
Immunology
University of Edinburgh
Lower Undergraduate
2013 – 2014
Biomedical Sciences, Genomic Engineering
The University of Edinburgh
Experience
Member of AFBE-UK
Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK)
2022 – Present
Guest Speaker
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2022 – 2022
Guest Speaker
University of Warwick
2022 – 2022
Panelist - "The Purpose and Impact of Doctoral Training"
Vitae
2021 – Present
Associate for Doctoral Training
Deep Science Ventures
2021 – Present
From Bench to Business: Meet the Founders - Panelist
p2iNetwork
2021 – 2021
Venture Science Doctorate Product Manager
Deep Science Ventures
2020 – 2021
Enterprise Educator
Edinburgh Innovations
2020 – 2021
Enterprise Services Research Associate
Edinburgh Innovations
2019 – 2020
Recruitment and Challenges Lead
Deep Science Ventures
2017 – 2017
International Conference Host
STEM Ambassadors
2016 – 2016
Health Technology Educator
STEM Ambassadors
2016 – 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Optical Immunology
The University of Edinburgh
2015 – 2019
Health Technology Educator
Explorathon'15 Science Festival
2015 – 2015
Ph.D. - Multimodal Molecular Imaging of Elastase in Vascular and Pulmonary Inflammatory Disease
GSK
2015 – 2019
External Relations Director - Edinburgh Chapter
Innovation Forum
2014 – 2016
Validation of a novel protein function in the diabetes-induced inhibition of angiogenesis
Dr. Andrea Caporali’s Laboratory
2014 – 2014
Genomic Engineering to Evaluate CRISPR Technologies
Professor John Mullin’s Laboratory
2013 – 2014
Modelling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Drosophila
Professor Giuseppa Pennetta’s laboratory
2013 – 2013
Publications
Activated neutrophil fluorescent imaging technique for human lungs - Scientific Reports
Forging 1,000 Venture Scientists to Transform the Innovation Economy | Day One Project
Optical Molecular Imaging of Inflammatory Cells in Interventional Medicine–An Emerging Strategy
Human neutrophil elastase phenotyping: classifying neutrophils by function with novel imaging agents