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Panel Profiles:

Professor Zulfiqur Ali, Assistant Dean, School of Science & Technology, Teesside University

Professor Ali obtained a BSc in Chemistry and subsequently a PhD in Instrumentation and

 Analytical Science from the University of Manchester. After a short spell as a Research

Fellow at the University of Warwick he gained an academic position in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Brighton. He Joined the School of Science and Technology at

the University of Teesside in 1996 and is now Assistant Dean in the School with responsibility

for Research and Innovation. He is also the Director of the Technology Futures Institute and

Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Micro and Nanosystems. Amongst others, Prof. Ali is the

Project Coordinator for DVT-IMP and has interests in nano-microfabricated systems.

Professor Jon Cooper, Professor of Bioelectronics and Bioengineering, Glasgow University

Professor Jon Cooper holds the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering in the Department of 

Electronics at the University of Glasgow. He has developed a full range of technologies

associated with Lab-on-a-Chip (including areas as diverse as bionanotechnology,

microfluidics, surface analysis, biochip fabrication and development, instrumentation,modelling and cell based assays). His group has a critical mass of researchers in a broad

range of technologies, working in micro- and nanofabrication, soft & hard lithography,

microscopy, optics and photonics, cell culture, immobilisation, biosensor technology,

analytical biotechnology and modelling. The focus of his work is in demonstrating the

analytical advantages of studying biology at the micro- and nanoscale. He has been closely

involved in the commercialisation of a number of these technologies associated with this field,

including for example Lab-on-a-Pill technologies and new tools for drug discovery. In addition

he currently has a number of funded collaborations with industry, including GSK, Unilever,

LGC and NPL.

Professor Peter Fielden, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, Manchester University

Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Manchester. His research interests

include: analytical measurement instrumentation, chemical sensing and quantitative

bioanalytical measurements, explosives and biological agent detection, lab-on-a-chip

including polymer microfabrication, and high-throughput experimentation. He was Head of the

former Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science (UMIST), and is currently

deputy head of Research in the School of Instrumentation and Analytical Science. He is a

member of the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, a member of EPSRC College, and a

recent former member of the Home Office Science Advisory Committee. He is also a director 

of Process Instruments (UK).

Dr Dale Athey, Chief Executive Officer, Orla Protein Technologies 

Dr Athey leads and manages the business overall. He has grown the business from start-up

to its present position, taking the lead on developing and implementing the business plan,

funding prospectus and ultimately securing funding. Dale has had extensive commercial

experience in customer facing roles in particular as a Product Manager in Diagnostics

Technical Sales and Marketing for Bayer and Chiron, where he was a product manger for the

world¶s leading immuno-diagnostics analyser the ACS:180 and ADVIA range of instruments.