Dr Loukik Arora

Loukik has recently joined as Investment Lead in Innovation Impact Investment Team at Macmillan where he will be working on growing the portfolio and the fund to invest in technologies to shape the future of cancer care.

He is part of the inaugural cohort (22 investors) of the Science and Technology Venture Capital Fellowship which is an initiative by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and delivered by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Imperial Business School. The program aims to increase the capacity of the UK investment sector to invest in the tomorrow’s breakthroughs, today.

Before joining Macmillan, Loukik was a part of Cambridge Enterprise (Ventures), where he invested in research-based deep-tech and life science spinouts emerging from the work of academic and student entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge.

Previously, he worked as a project fellow at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and as a freelance R&D consultant. He also contributed to the development of the MedTech innovation ecosystem in Singapore while at APACMed.

Loukik holds a PhD in Medicine/Pharmacology from the National University of Singapore and a Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation management from Strathclyde Business School.