Dr. Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, is widely considered to be a Founder and World Leader of chemical and biosensor technology. His pioneering research includes chemoreceptive transducers, novel strategies for combining molecular recognition with acoustic wave devices, the immobilization of synthetic receptor sites, proteins and DNA/RNA onto sensor interfaces, and the operation of acoustic transverse wave structures in liquids. Recently, he was the first to develop genosensors for the flow-through sensing of oligonucleotide hybridization and drug interactions. He is senior author of two acclaimed texts in analytical chemistry, the lead inventor of ten issued patents and has served on the Advisory Boards of nine scientific journals.