Professor Ian Weeks: BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSC, FRCPath

Cardiff University

Ian is Dean of Clinical Innovation and currently Acting Head of the School of Medicine and also Associate Dean of Clinical Innovation for the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University.  He has undertaken research, development and manufacturing of novel biochemical diagnostic tests for human disease for over thirty years in academic, NHS and commercial environments. He has authored over 120 publications, books and patents.  

Technologies of which he is an inventor have been licensed and used by global companies as the basis of in vitro clinical diagnostic tests many hundreds of millions of which are used annually worldwide.  His research has resulted in the formation of three spin-out companies. Research undertaken by Ian and colleagues earned a Queen's Anniversary Prize for the Medical School in 1998 and was also cited by Universities UK in 2006 as one of the top 100 life-changing discoveries of the past 50 years.  Ian is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal College of Pathologists.
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