SensNews Dec 2018

9 Sensor100 December 2018 Sensor People in the News Jon Cooper, Wolfson Chair of Biomedical En- gineering andVice Principal International Knowledge Exchange, University of Glasgow, for development of paper-folding infectious disease sensors, and as a co-founder of SAWDx Ltd. Looking back over 2018, Sensor100 recognises some of the many people who have made notable contributions in sensor applications. Billy Boyle , co-founder and CEO of Owlstone Medical, which was awarded the prestigious 2018 MacRobert Award for the development of the Breath Biopsy ® ElaineWarburton OBE , co-founder and CEO of QuantumDx for development of PoC technology for TB and other infectious diseases, and for raising $12m ChristopherWilson PhD, founder and CEO of Noviosense, for development of an under-eyelid glucose sensor which in a limited clinical trial showed very promising results Nickolas Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine who headed the team at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland. for developing a new blood test, dubbed CancerSEEK, which can can identify eight common cancers: ovary, liver, esophagus, pancreas, stomach, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer

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