University of Dundee‘s McGhee Award is receiving a new pledge of funding from Current Health CEO Christopher McCann and his partner Dr. Jo-Ann Nugent.

The couple have pledged £25,000 to support the University’s award that recognises and supports business concepts with impact, global growth, and scalability ambitions.

McCann is an alumnus of Dundee’s Medical school, who developed his own business idea while studying and was inspired to support others with entrepreneurial ambitions.

Current Health, which started at the University of Dundee, is an enterprise platform that enables healthcare organisations to deliver safe, end-to-end care in patients’ homes.

“Today, Current Health is a market leader in the US and UK. Along the way, so many great founders helped me and it is now my turn to help new founders as they build companies and solve real problems, benefiting our economy and our society,” McCann said.

The addition of the McGhee award to Venture 2023 swells the prize fund to a record-breaking £68,000.

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Students and staff will be able to pitch business ideas across several categories, with winners receiving seed funding to develop their proposals.

Brian McNicoll, Head of Dundee’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, said: “Our annual Venture competition is one of the most important ways in which we support our students and staff in fulfilling their entrepreneurial ambitions and once again we look forward to examining a host of quality submissions.”

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