About
Ed Cartwright is a paediatrician and genomic epidemiologist who co-founded Elixir AI through Entrepreneur First, where the company designs and runs paediatric clinical trials involving remote assessment, home data capture, and image and audio AI. He is an Honorary Lecturer in the Genomic and Pathogen Surveillance group at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, applying machine learning to clinical microbiology and pathogen surveillance. During his PhD at Cambridge, working with the Peacock lab, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Illumina, he was joint first author on a New England Journal of Medicine paper using clinical whole genome sequencing to halt a neonatal MRSA outbreak in real time.
CEO at Elixir Ai
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Experience
- UCLHonorary Lecturercurrent2025 — presentLondon
- Elixir AICo-founder and CEOcurrent2017 — presentLondon, United Kingdom
- Entrepreneur FirstEntrepreneur2017London Area, United Kingdom
- NHS EnglandSpecialty Registrar Doctor2008 — 2016Cambridge Deanery
- NHS EnglandFoundation Doctor2006 — 2008London Deanery, United Kingdom
- Public Health EnglandClinical Research Fellow2011 — 2014
- University of CambridgeClinical Research Fellow2011Cambridge, United Kingdom
Skills & more
Python (Programming Language)PythonSQLStataDatabasesMachine LearningMedicinePaediatricsPediatricsMicrobiologyGenomicsEpidemiology
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Antimicrobial ResistanceMedtechMedical DevicesBiotechnologyPharmaceutical IndustryHealthcareUniversitiesInformation TechnologyBig DataBig Data AnalyticsEntrepreneurshipClinical ResearchLanguages English
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- Who is Ed Cartwright?
- Ed Cartwright is a paediatrician and genomic epidemiologist who co-founded Elixir AI through Entrepreneur First, where the company designs and runs paediatric clinical trials involving remote assessment, home data capture, and image and audio AI. He is an Honorary Lecturer in the Genomic and Pathogen Surveillance group at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, applying machine learning to clinical microbiology and pathogen surveillance. During his PhD at Cambridge, working with the Peacock lab, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Illumina, he was joint first author on a New England Journal of Medicine paper using clinical whole genome sequencing to halt a neonatal MRSA outbreak in real time.
- Where does Ed Cartwright work?
- Ed Cartwright is CEO of Elixir Ai.
- What companies did Ed Cartwright found?
- Ed Cartwright founded Elixir Ai.
- Where did Ed Cartwright go to school?
- Ed Cartwright studied at University of Cambridge (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medicine: Clinical Genomics / Microbiology / Epidemiology.); Newcastle University (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)).
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