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16 October 2025
RNA symposium speaker spotlight - Hagan Bayley
Hagan Bayley joined the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford in October 2025 as a Principal Scientist to form the Institute for Materials & Devices in Life Sciences after more than twenty years as the Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford. A major interest of his laboratory is the development of engineered protein nanopores for stochastic detection, including single-molecule covalent chemistry and ultrarapid biopolymer sequencing. Recently, the Bayley lab has developed techniques for the fabrication by design of 3D tissues, both living and synthetic. In 2005, Professor Bayley founded Oxford Nanopore, which has manufactured the portable MinION and other DNA/RNA sequencers. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
