Pankaj Vadgama Qualified with a Degree in Medicine and in Chemistry at the University of Newcastle, later completing a PhD on biosensors as an MRC Fellow. He took up the post of Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, later becoming Research Dean in the Faculty of Medicine. He is currently Director of the IRC in Biomedical Materials at Queen Mary, University of London and was, until recently, Head of the Department, Clinical Biochemistry, Barts Health NHS Trust. His main interests are biosensors and bioelectrochemistry, Point of Care Testing, improved materials for biomedical separation membranes and mass transport phenomena in biopolymers. He has published ~ 200 papers. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, Royal Society of Medicine, Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining and the Royal Society of Biology. He was given the Foundation Award of the Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine and has been the Sandoz Lecturer of the British Geriatric Society and the Latner Memorial Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He has served on various UK Research Council grants award committees and is at present member of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining Smart Materials and Nano Committees and the Biomedical Materials Application Division. He sits on various BSI committees and was Chair of the ISO sub-panel on Nanomedicine nomenclature. He is currently Deputy Chair of the Council for the Frontiers of Science based in Uganda directed at research training and development in East Africa.
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