Marc Koska enjoyed a successful career as a broker in a major financial institution when he first learned about the spread of blood-borne diseases through unsafe injections in the 1980s, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. He decided to devote his career to solving this problem and has received honorary doctorates from Brighton University and the University of Sussex. Marc has received multiple awards, including The Economist’s Innovation Award, the Fogarty Institute for Innovation’s Tech Award, and he the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to global healthcare.