Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam

Gita is Principal Investigator, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge. She is committed to improving healthcare outcomes through bio/med-tech innovations. She works with several partners in the research landscape from academia to the NHS, charities, patients’ groups and industry.

As a science-based entrepreneur, she has been widely recognised including a RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year 2021. She innovated an imaging device for accurate cancer surgery in collaboration with Cambridge University Hospital. She is also leading a spinoff company to develop a wearable platform for continuous molecular monitoring to improve experience of people with chronic conditions.

She is currently seconded at GSK (Global Health), where she is developing AI/ML and digital health tools for tuberculosis drug development. Previously, she was awarded a Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship at the University of Cambridge in recognition of her research in the field of bioengineering.