Interview: Enriching the pore

Professor Hagan Bayley speaks to Hannah Stanwix, Assistant Commissioning Editor Professor Hagan Bayley received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) in 1974. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University (MA, USA) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA). In 1981, Professor Bayley moved to Columbia University (NY, USA) as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. He subsequently worked at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research (MA, USA) and in 1997, Professor Bayley moved to Texas A&M University (TX, USA) to become a Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department of Medical Biochemistry & Genetics. Professor Bayley returned to the University of Oxford in 2003 and is currently the Professor of Chemical Biology. Professor Bayley is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Society of Biology (London, UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London, UK). He has received numerous awards including the Royal Society of Chemistry 2009 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year. Professor Bayley is the founder of Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., a private company based in Oxford (UK). Professor Bayley has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers, over 40 book chapters and review articles, as well as numerous patents.