- George Radda
Professor Sir George Charles Radda (Gyorgy Karoly Radda) was born in
1936 inHungary . In 1956, he attendedMerton College, Oxford to studychemistry . His early work was concerned with the development and use of fluorescent probes for the study of structure and function of membranes and enzymes. He became interested in using spectroscopic methods includingnuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study complex biological material. In1974 , his research paper was the first to introduce the use of NMR to study tissue metabolites. In1981 , he and his fellow colleagues published the first scientific report on the clinical application of his work. This resulted in the installation of a magnet large enough to accommodate the whole human body for NMR investigations in1983 at theJohn Radcliffe Hospital inOxford .He has received numerous prestigious awards and honours for his pioneering efforts in using spectroscopic techniques for metabolic studies, including a CBE in June
1993 and a knighthood in June2000 . He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, aFellow of the Royal Society and is theBritish Heart Foundation Professor of Molecular Cardiology. He has also been awarded many distinguished prizes throughout his scientific career. He is an Honorary Member of theAmerican Heart Association and was awarded the Citation for International Achievement.From
1996 , until his retirement in2004 , Sir George was Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council in the UK. Currently, Sir George is the new head of the merged departments of Physiology and Human Anatomy andGenetics at the University of Oxford and Chairman of the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, a research institute of ASTAR inSingapore .
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