Tony Turner (scientist)

Anthony Peter Francis Turner (Tony Turner)

Professor Anthony (Tony) Turner

Tony Turner
Nationality English
Fields Biosensors
Institutions Linköping University

Professor Anthony Peter Francis Turner, FRSC (born 1950), usually known as Tony Turner, is an English academic specialising in the fields of biosensors and bioelectronics.

Biography

Anthony P. F. Turner is Full Professor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and Head of the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre at Linköping University, in Sweden.[1] He is an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield University in England, where he was previously the Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology (until 2010) and Principal of Cranfield University at Silsoe. He remained Innovations Director for Cranfield Ventures Ltd (until 2014), with responsibility for licensing and spin offs from Cranfield University.

In 1996 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which awarded him the Theophilus Redwood Medal in 2011 for his outstanding contribution to analytical science and especially for "his pioneering work which has led to the development of home blood glucose monitoring technology".[2] He received a higher doctorate from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 2001 for his "outstanding contribution to biosensors" and was presented with an honorary doctorate for his "contribution to higher education" by Bedfordshire University in 2008. He was made a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering in the USA, in 2006, for his exceptional contribution to "glucose sensors, environmental monitors and synthetic recognition molecules" and elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2013. In 2016, he was awarded the Ukraine’s highest academic distinction, the Vernadsky Gold Medal from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, for his "outstanding achievements in the field of bioelectronics", and in the same year, the Datta Medal by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

He helped found the UK’s first Biotechnology Centre in 1981 at Cranfield University. There he led the Biosensors Group that went on to develop, in collaboration with Oxford University, a biosensor that transformed the lives of people with diabetes. The principle they established, of using a mediator in a disposable electrochemical glucose biosensor, became the technology of choice for this US$13 billion a year industry. He played a major role in consolidating the field of biosensors as an academic discipline by co-founding the Journal of Biosensors (Elsevier) in 1985 (renamed the journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics in 1991), publishing the first textbook on biosensors in 1987[3] and establishing the World Congress on Biosensors in 1990. His team has been ranked in the top ten in the world for biosensor development by a variety of international commentators.

Publications

Professor Turner has over 750 publications and patents in the field of biosensors and biomimetic sensors and an h-index of 70, with his most popular paper receiving more than 1,600 citations. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Anthony (Tony) Turner". Linköping University. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Theophilus Redwood Award Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications". Linköping University Electronic Catalogue. Linköping University. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Anthony Turner". Google Scholar. Google. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
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