Oxford student working to combat baldness

London, United Kingdom, January 21: One fear that largely haunts men through their 30s and 40s is that of the day they start losing hair. Most men have to put up with the fact that the hair they had flaunted so pompously will thin down and eventually cease to exist.

Hair loss plays havoc, not only with men’s charm but also with their confidence and career prospects. Men with bald patches and receding hairlines become easy targets for cosmetic companies. Lotions, pills, skin grafts et al; men give in to anything to be spared of the horror of being bald.

Though there are a few, who just not bothered about hair-care and so they willing shave off their heads, making inspiration models for cosmetic-seekers.

Thomas Whitfield, a 27-year-old Oxford biochemistry PhD is out to help the hair-loss nightmares of men. With his venture named TRX2, he promises to make "hair loss a thing of the past".

While TRX is derived from the Trichos, the Greek word for hair, the 2 in TRX2 stands "for second – your second generation of hair," he says.

Whitfield plans to make his "product and service" available in the market within a year.

"Current treatments don't work properly or they are inconvenient or they are simply very, very expensive. We have come up with a solution that's quite easy and much cheaper," said the Kilcady-born entrepreneur.

Besides the hair-loss preventing science, Whitfield is also the founder of a successful internet venture called Miomi.com, which plots user-generated personal histories.

Seeking further advancement in his study, he is off the United States to spend time at the cutting edge InCube Labs, a medical devices incubator in Silicon Valley.