Duncan Graham's Biography

Duncan Graham, Professor/Director, Strathclyde University

Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and Deputy Head of Department for Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is currently Chair of the Editorial Board of Analyst and will serve in that role until 2018. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the RSCs SAC Silver medal (2004), Corday Morgan prize (2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2010), the Craver Award from the Coblentz Society (2012), Fellows Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2012) and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008). He has published over 200 papers and graduated over 50 PhD students. He is a cofounder and director of Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd (2007) and has filed 16 patents with license deals on most of his portfolio. He completed at PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (1996) and his interests are in developing new diagnostic assays based on nanoparticles and spectroscopy with target molecules including DNA, RNA, proteins and small molecule biomarkers.