Dr Hannah Thompson believes that everyone should have the opportunities to achieve their real potential, so that together we can change the world. Hannah loves to chat with anyone who will listen about the usefulness of self-awareness and networking to find career opportunities.
She has a PhD on the mechanistic link between type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer from Queen Mary University of London (2014-2018). In 2014, she graduated with a Pharmacology Master’s Degree from the University of Bath, which included a year of drug discovery with MedImmune where she focused on using phage display to identify novel targets for pancreatic cancer.
Since her PhD, she has worked in 4 different startups. It is likely she will try to convince you to work in a startup too! Hannah is currently working as Product Manager at Healx. She has experience across product, business, operations and people functions with user facing software products that monitor health and enable precision medicine and clinical trials. She has helped raise a seed fundraising round, hired 40 people, sourced initial customers, built partnerships, networks and product teams.
Hannah was awarded a spot on BioBeat’s 2019’s 50 Movers and Shakers in the BioBusiness report, highlighting the trailblazers and trendsetters shaping the future of the UK life sciences sector, for her commitment to collaboration through her work and her focus on simplifying software for monitoring cancer patients (https://www.mws-consulting.co.uk/publication/50-movers-and-shakers-in-biobusiness-2019/). She uses her startup experience to mentor for the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (http://www.yescompetitions.co.uk/), QMUL Enterprise and Lair East Labs Accelerator in NYC (https://laireastlabs.com/). She also helps to mentor the next wave of Communication Experts in The Talent Factory (https://showofftalentfactory.wordpress.com/).
Hannah is an experienced speaker. Ever since an accountant told Hannah they understood all of her Pint of Science (https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/playing-wheres-wally-with-cancer) talk on the possible link between type 2 diabetes and bowel cancer, she has done lectures, panel talks, awards speeches and comedy gigs. In July 2017, she received the “Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement” award from The Blizard Institute, QMUL. In 2019, she did a show at Edinburgh Fringe while in 2020, Hannah appeared on Channel 4 news speaking about Long Covid. In her spare time, Hannah loves to read (she went a bit wild with 42 books read in 2020), play netball, blog, cross stitch and look after her 60+ plants! You can find more about what Hannah gets up to here: https://linktr.ee/drhannaht.
Dr Hannah Thompson will hold a workshop on both 25th and 26th March 2021 at 2pm GMT (separate registration required, a link will be provided upon registration for the conference).