Pankaj Vadgama Emeritus Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Mary University of London UK. Qualified in Medicine and Chemistry and then PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Research Dean University of Manchester. Latterly, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary, University of London and Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Barts Health NHS Trust. Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists and the Institute of Physics. Foundation Award and Honorary Member, Association of Clinical Biochemists UK.