Chris Toumazou
Chris Toumazou
Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIET, FIEEE, FCGI, FRSM, CEngis a British Cypriot electronic engineer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 July 1961
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I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
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When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.
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For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.
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Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.
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Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.
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The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.