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Head of Department, Molecular Endocrinology, UCL Medical School, UCL
Professor Ekins is internationally recognised as the independent co-originator (with Drs Berson and Yalow) of RadioImmunoAssay (RIA) and related microanalytical techniques. Widely used to assay [Hormone]s and many other biologically-important substances in medical research and diagnosis, introduction of these techniques made a revolutionary impact on medicine, creating the $10 billion immunodiagnostics industry.
In the mid-1980s he conceived of and [Patent]ed a new generation of ultrasensitive, miniaturised, assays for [Protein] and [DNA]/[RNA] measurement based on the use of “MicroArray”, this leading, in 1991, to his collaboration with Boehringer Mannheim in the technology’s further development. Though outstandingly successful, the “Microspot®” project was (for legal reasons unrelated to the project’s success or the technology’s commercial prospects) halted in 1998 by Hoffmann-la Roche following its purchase of BM. Meanwhile international interest in MicroArray technology has exploded, being predicted by US analysts to form the basis of a $40 billion industry within the next decade.
Professor Ekins has received many premier awards in recognition of his work in clinical chemistry, nuclear medicine, and endocrinology, including the IFCC’s Distinguished Clinical Chemist Award, the von Hevesy Foundation’s Georg von Hevesy Gold Medal, the British Nuclear Medicine Society’s Veall medal, the Society for Endocrinology’s Dale Medal, and, most recently, the AACC’s inaugural Edwin F Ullman Award.
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