Distinguished for innovative silicon technology and integrated circuit design for electronic devices, particularly in the field of devices for medical diagnosis and therapy, Toumazou is pre-eminent among the global community of contemporary medical engineers. Outstanding achievements include an ultra-low power wireless body monitoring system, for management of chronic illness and semiconductor DNA analysis. His pioneering research showed how the natural analogue physics of silicon technology could be used to mimic and replace biological functions. Toumazou’s invention using silicon chip technology to analyse DNA is a fundamental breakthrough in the field of genetics with the potential to transform medicine.
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Back to directory listingProfessor Christofer Toumazou FRS FREng FMedSci
Job Title
Regius Professor of Engineering
Institution
Imperial College London
Year elected
2013
Interests
Specialitiesapplication of microchips and semiconductor to personalised medicine; inventor of numerous diagnostic & genetic based medical devices, inventor of semiconductor based DNA detection and sequencing
Section committee elected byPhysics, chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology, mathematical sciences including statistics, informatics, imaging and engineering applied to biomedicine