Ray Kruse Iles is a biomedical scientist who was head of the Williamson Laboratory for Molecular Oncology at

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in London.

Career

Iles has a particular interest in the interface between rational processing, emotional motivation and endocrinology. He co-founded the ELK-Health Foundation, with psychotherapist Tadhg Ó Séaghdha, in 2004. The ELK-Foundation Health (named after Iles's father, Eric Leonard Kruse) is now the National Institutes for Stress, Anxiety and Depression (NISAD), centred in Lund, Sweden. It still uses the ELK-Health name in its programmes and clinics, which support people needing to change habits that harm their physical and emotional health. Iles's interest in women's and reproduction health led him, in 2011, to become the founding director of the biomarker diagnostic company MAPSciences. Iles is the inventor of new diagnostic technology, six clinical screening tests for pregnancy disorders and

Downs Syndrome Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual disa ...

prenatal diagnosis Prenatal testing consists of prenatal screening and prenatal diagnosis, which are aspects of prenatal care that focus on detecting problems with the pregnancy as early as possible. These may be anatomic and physiologic problems with the health ...

, haemoglobinopathies,

thalassemia Thalassemias are inherited blood disorders characterized by decreased hemoglobin production. Symptoms depend on the type and can vary from none to severe. Often there is mild to severe anemia (low red blood cells or hemoglobin). Anemia can resul ...

, and

diabetes Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level (hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ...

, and two

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bl ...

-related patents. His academic career, after leaving St Bartholomew's, included being Professor of Biomedical Science at Middlesex University heading a Biomedical Science Research Facility, which incorporated molecular pathology, bio-modelling/bioinformatics and environmental health, and then Anglia Ruskin University. Formerly a regular contributor to Kumar and Clark's ''Clinical Medicine'', Iles left academia to concentrate on the two organisations that he co-founded, NISAD and MapSciences. In 2012, with Suzanne Docherty, he published the textbook ''Biomedical Science: Essential Laboratory Medicine''. NISAD has supported several research projects of Iles and his students in bioanalysis, cancer research, fertility and prenatal care and child development. Since 2019 Iles has been the founding dean at Abu Dhabi University’s College of Health Sciences.

Personal life

As a boy Iles attended Mellow Lane Comprehensive School in Hayes, Middlesex. His cousin is the UK Olympic fencer

Richard Kruse Richard Kruse (born 30 July 1983) is a former British right-handed foil fencer and four-time Olympian. In 2015, he was part of the Great Britain team that shocked Olympic champions Italy to win the first European Games gold in team foil, the fi ...

, which was the subject of the BBC Radio programme ''Tracing your Roots''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iles, Ray K British scientists British medical researchers Living people Academics of Middlesex University Academics of Anglia Ruskin University People from Barnes, London Year of birth missing (living people)