Adrian sadly passed away on 27th July 2010. Microarray is indebted to him for his diligent and insightful direction during his time as chairman. We will miss him tremendously and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family.
Roger
started his career at ICI,
notably helping launch and grow the highly-successful FM21 chloro alkali
business. After managing an electrochemistry and membrane team of over 180
scientists at ICI, with an annual budget in excess of £15M, Roger was
headhunted to North West Water (now part of United
Utilities)
where he had board-level responsibility
as Director of R&D across 10 countries. During this time, Roger built-up a
team of over 50 scientists, lead the acquisition of two membrane treatment
companies which were then consolidated into one business unit and took on
additional responsibility as Environmental Quality Director. Roger is a keen
enthusiast of enterprise and early-stage technologies and also holds the
position of Professor for Innovation and Technology Strategy at the University
of Salford.
Seamus Higson is the Technical Director of Microarray Ltd, a company formed on science from his laboratory. Professor Higson holds a chair of Bio- and Electroananlysis and is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Biosciences at Cranfield University.
A recurrent theme in much of Séamus' research includes the design and fabrication of micro-electrode arrays for applications ranging from DNA analysis, (including genomic and proteomic applications), through to electrochemical sensors and biosensors for applications ranging from medicine through to environmental monitoring.
Recent and ongoing high profile work has includes the development of a range of biosensors with ultra-low limits of detection for use in, for example, the early detection of prostrate and ovarian cancer, the diagnosis of transient ischemic events (stroke), the determination of a range of pathogens and nucleic acids. Such sensors have differential ability down to the level of a single gene.
Professor Higson is a long standing college member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC) of the UK, serves in an advisory and/or consultative capacity for a number of public bodies and is also author of a major text, 'Analytical Chemistry', published by the Oxford University Press.
Stuart, a senior research scientist with Microarray has
been with the company since 2000.