- 2San highlights the importance of women helping women in the industry
- Dr Cosima Gretton, a rising female star in digital health and diagnostics shares her learnings for the future female generation this International Women’s Day
2San, a leading global supplier of trusted, high-quality innovative healthcare products and solutions is determined to support and enable female colleagues globally within the healthcare and diagnostics industry.
For International Women’s Day, 2San would like to recognise highly successful women within the industry. Dr Cosima Gretton, is the UK and Europe’s Scientific Advisor for 2San, and a consultant in digital health and diagnostics. She is a force within the industry and hopes to inspire the next generation of females within this field.
With a background in experimental psychology and clinical medicine, it was while working as a junior doctor that Cosima became interested in innovation and how healthcare was delivered, funded and how health technologies were developed.
Cosima moved across the pond to the US, to work as a clinical product manager at a diagnostics start up called Karius, working on infectious diseases. She then joined a mental health start-up and led the healthcare strategy, launching a new virtual therapy service for people with serious mental illness. Within three years the company served patients across 50 states with major American insurance companies as customers.
When the pandemic hit, Cosima joined NHS Test & Trace, deploying novel low cost COVID-19 technologies. She led three programs; deploying testing capacity for staff at NHS hospitals, creating mobile laboratories to support outbreak response, and building a novel highly automated robotic laboratory, working with engineers from F1 McLaren.