Tuomas Knowles is a British scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the

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. He is the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases and a Fellow of

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. Prof. Knowles is a co-founder of four biotechnology companies: Fluidic Analytics, Wren Therapeutics, Xampla and Transition Bio. He was also the Cambridge Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the year in 2019.

Education

Tuomas Knowles studied

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

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University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centu ...

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Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

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. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a master's degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He was a visiting scholar at

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and Weston Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Research

The research of Tuomas Knowles focuses on understanding protein behavior in health and disease. Knowles is known for his work on protein aggregation and for describing the kinetics of this process and the underlying molecular mechanisms. He discovered the first integrated rate law for amyloid formation which has allowed the mechanisms of this process to be elucidated by researchers worldwide and together with collaborators he has made software available to the research community for kinetic analysis of protein aggregation. He has published over 300 papers, has an h-index of 70 and has been named Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science.

Awards and honors

* Corday-Morgan Prize from the

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(awarded in 2017). * Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics (awarded in 2017). * Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry *Young Investigator Award and Medal, British Biophysical Society *Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics *Rita and John Cornforth Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry

References

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