Dr Chris Hand

Dr Chris Hand is co-founder of Abingdon Health. He has over 30 years’ experience in the medical diagnostics industry in the development and commercialisation of immunodiagnostic products, particularly rapid tests. Before Abingdon, Chris co-founded the medical diagnostics company Cozart Bioscience Ltd specialising in on-site saliva drug testing, and was Chief Executive of Cozart plc, following IPO on AIM in 2004, until October 2007 when the company was sold to Concateno plc. Prior to founding Cozart, Chris was Director of Research for the European base of DPC (now part of Siemens Healthineers Solutions) developing a wide range of immunodiagnostic kits in a variety of formats. He has a BSc in Applied Biochemistry from Brunel University, London and a DPhil from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oxford. He is also chairman of Alta Bioscience Ltd.