Visiting Professor John Pickup receives Honorary Degree

Visiting Professor John Pickup receives Honorary Degree

Visiting Prof John Pickup (right) receives honorary degree from Principal Jim MacDonald with Physics HoD Erling Riis looking on (left).

Photophysics Visiting Professor John Pickup receives a Honorary  DSc from our Principal Jim MacDonald at the November Graduation Ceremony. John is Emeritus Professor of Diabetes and Metabolism at King’s College London and is an internationally acclaimed authority on diabetes. He has collaborated with the Photophysics Group since 1996 on the development of fluorescence lifetime sensors for continuous in-vivo blood glucose monitoring. During this period the Strathclyde and King’s College teams have jointly won 8 research grants from the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC. These include an EPSRC £5m Science and Innovation Award in nanometrology and Adventure Competition winning award “Single molecule sensing in clinical medicine.” Over 40 journal publications have arisen from the collaboration.