Nichola Lawton: DNA Clinics

Nichola Lawton, 28
Company: DNA Clinics
Web: www.thednaclinic.co.uk

Biomolecular science graduate and former Shell Livewire winner Nichola Lawton set up the UK’s first DNA clinic in Liverpool in 2004. She now runs a network of 37 nationally, offering the full support and counselling services that online mailing tests lack. She estimates that the business performs around a third of the 20,000 paternity tests carried out in the UK each year.