Chris Toumazou Quotes

When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.

Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.