Fred Turner (entrepreneur)

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Fred Turner
Born
West Yorkshire
Education University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Scientist, Entrepreneur
Known forFounder of Curative

Fred Turner is a biotechnology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Curative, Inc. [1] [2] [3] [4] He was featured in the Science Council list of top 100 practicing scientists in the UK in 2013 and was ranked #1 in the European Union Contest for Young Scientist in 2013. [5] [6] Turner was also featured on the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science list. [7]

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Early life and education

As a 17-year old, Fred won the UK's Young Engineer of the Year Award for building a PCR device intended to find the gene responsible for his brother's red hair. [3] Turner went to Oxford to study biochemistry but dropped out. [4]

Career

Turner moved from the UK to San Francisco to found TL BioLabs, which made genetic tests for cow herds. TL was backed by the Thiel Foundation. [8] The company pivoted and rebranded to Shield Bio, which had a focus on diagnostic testing for gonorrhea and sepsis. [4] It was backed by a16z [9] and Y-Combinator and the testing was made available to over 10,000 patients in medical centers. [10]

Following Shield Bio's closing, Turner founded Curative to focus on improving outcomes for sepsis patients, but the company quickly turned focus to COVID-19 diagnostics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "COVID-19 Testing at Scale while Reimagining Healthcare: An Interview with Curative Cofounders Fred Turner, Isaac Turner, and Vlad Slepnev". Cell Systems. 11 (4): 329–330. 21 October 2020. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2020.09.010. PMC   7577258 .
  2. ↑ Darmieto, Laurence (24 May 2021). "COVID-19 turned a tiny start-up into a testing giant. But can its results be trusted?". LA Times . Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 "DNA Testing Machine: Fred Turner, UK Teen, Builds DNA Testing Machine In His Bedroom". Huffington Post . 6 April 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 "Fred Turner, Curative's boy wonder, suffers negative result". The Times . 6 April 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Staff (17 January 2014). "The UK's 100 leading practising scientists". Times Higher Education .
  6. ↑ Deighton, Ben (25 September 2013). "Home DNA lab wins EU young scientist prize". ec.europa.eu.
  7. ↑ Knapp, Alex (November 14, 2017). "30 Under 30 In Science: Inventing The Future One Atom At A Time". Forbes .
  8. ↑ Osher, Christopher (8 May 2021). "Colorado's troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm". The Gazette (Colorado Springs) . Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "Investments". a16z.
  10. ↑ "Shield Bio Profile". Y Combinator.
  11. ↑ Johnson, Madliene (23 April 2020). "Curative, KorvaLabs Partner to Create High-Throughput COVID-19 Oral Fluid Testing Lab". GenomeWeb . Retrieved 29 June 2021.


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