Thomas Whitfield | |
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Born | 30 November 1981 | (age 42)
Alma mater | Christ Church, University of Oxford ( DPhil (PhD)) |
Occupation(s) | biochemist, entrepreneur |
Thomas Whitfield (born 30 November 1981) is a British/German biochemist and entrepreneur. He is known for the dietary supplement TRX2 and his work on DesignTheTime.com. [1] [2]
Thomas Whitfield was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. [1] [2] He spent his childhood and early schooling in Germany as his mother is German. [1] He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Biochemistry from Christ Church, University of Oxford. [3] [4] Being an Idea Idol of University of Oxford, [4] he was selected as one of the 2009 Flying Start Global Entrepreneurs by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), UK. [4] In 2009 he was selected as a Kauffman Foundation Global Scholar. [5]
He was a co-founder and director [6] of DesignTheTime.com [7]" [8]) [9] (later called Miomi.com) which plots user-generated personal histories. [6] [10] [11] [4] [7] [9] [12] [13] The website attracted vast media attention throughout Europe and was ranked as one of the Top 10 UK Web 2.0 startups in 2007 [14] with co-operation agreements including Microsoft, [7] [15] [16] [17] Wikipedia ( Wikimedia Foundation), [4] [11] [17] Brockhaus [13] and the British Library. [4] Despite its popularity the website went offline in 2008 for unknown reasons.
In 2009 Whitfield founded the company Oxford Biolabs. [1] In 2011 its first product TRX2 (trichos=hair in ancient Greek; 2=second generation), [1] a dietary supplement became publicly available. [2]
Work of Whitfield has been featured in The Daily Telegraph [1] [2] [18] several times, as well as in The Observer, [19] CNN, [8] New Scientist, [20] Der Spiegel, [21] RTL [22] and Tagesschau [23] In 2007 he has been featured during the Google Zeitgeist Entrepreneur of the Year conference. [24]
Thomas Whitfield | |
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Born | 30 November 1981 | (age 42)
Alma mater | Christ Church, University of Oxford ( DPhil (PhD)) |
Occupation(s) | biochemist, entrepreneur |
Thomas Whitfield (born 30 November 1981) is a British/German biochemist and entrepreneur. He is known for the dietary supplement TRX2 and his work on DesignTheTime.com. [1] [2]
Thomas Whitfield was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. [1] [2] He spent his childhood and early schooling in Germany as his mother is German. [1] He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Biochemistry from Christ Church, University of Oxford. [3] [4] Being an Idea Idol of University of Oxford, [4] he was selected as one of the 2009 Flying Start Global Entrepreneurs by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), UK. [4] In 2009 he was selected as a Kauffman Foundation Global Scholar. [5]
He was a co-founder and director [6] of DesignTheTime.com [7]" [8]) [9] (later called Miomi.com) which plots user-generated personal histories. [6] [10] [11] [4] [7] [9] [12] [13] The website attracted vast media attention throughout Europe and was ranked as one of the Top 10 UK Web 2.0 startups in 2007 [14] with co-operation agreements including Microsoft, [7] [15] [16] [17] Wikipedia ( Wikimedia Foundation), [4] [11] [17] Brockhaus [13] and the British Library. [4] Despite its popularity the website went offline in 2008 for unknown reasons.
In 2009 Whitfield founded the company Oxford Biolabs. [1] In 2011 its first product TRX2 (trichos=hair in ancient Greek; 2=second generation), [1] a dietary supplement became publicly available. [2]
Work of Whitfield has been featured in The Daily Telegraph [1] [2] [18] several times, as well as in The Observer, [19] CNN, [8] New Scientist, [20] Der Spiegel, [21] RTL [22] and Tagesschau [23] In 2007 he has been featured during the Google Zeitgeist Entrepreneur of the Year conference. [24]