Dr Aqeel Shamsul
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Frontier Space Technologies Ltd
Speaker profile
Dr Aqeel Shamsul is the CEO and co-founder of Frontier Space Technologies Ltd, a UK Space Biotech startup that is industrialising space biotechnology to develop and manufacture new therapeutics and medicine in orbit. Aqeel completed his PhD at Cranfield University in 2022 in developing a miniaturised bio laboratory for space application, which he led and flew its first technology demonstration mission in the stratosphere. He spun out the technology from Cranfield University with a few alumni and commercialised it to perform high-throughput drug discovery and biomanufacturing in orbit. Since its incorporation, Frontier Space has won over 1 million GBP in non-dilutive funding to advance core fluidic and imaging technologies and participated in UKSA inaugural LEO & GEO accelerator programme, Seraphim Space Accelerator, Mandala Space Ventures and European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre. He was named 2019 Emerging Space Leader by the International Astronautical Federation and co-founded a non-profit Malaysia Space Initiative.