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Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford. His laboratory works on the development of engineered pores for stochastic sensing, the study of covalent chemistry at the single molecule level, ultrarapid biopolymer sequencing and the fabrication of synthetic tissues. He has founded two companies to develop his research: Oxford Nanopore and OxSyBio. Holder of the Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year Award (bestowed by the Royal Society of Chemistry) and the Menelaus Medal of the Learned Society of Wales.