Professor Timothy Leighton has achieved a rare ‘triple crown’ for Academicians with his invitation to become a Fellow of the Academy for Medical Sciences, one of 48 world-leading researchers recognised on Thursday 10 May.
He is also one of four new Fellows invited to address the Academy on its 2018 New Fellows Admission Day on Wednesday 27 June at the Royal College of Physicians and Academy of Medical Sciences, London.
Professor Timothy Leighton speaks to a group of hospital staff in Ghana
For Timothy, who was already a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, this latest honour secures Southampton’s reputation for leading multidisciplinary research.
He is well-known for his work in different fields, inventing revolutionary sonar and radar systems; pioneering apparatus used to detect leaks from carbon capture and storage reservoirs, and gas pipelines; developing inventions to improve safety in the nuclear and railway industries; and his insights in whale behaviour, ecology, and extraterrestrial studies. Details of Timothy’s medical achievements can be found here.
Earlier this year, Timothy returned from rural Ghana where he went to build support for his vision of introducing StarHealer, an invention that cleans wounds and promotes rapid healing. He will shortly be releasing major new findings from his studies on the exchange of carbon between atmosphere and ocean, and the implications for climate change.
Timothy commented on his success:
“I am humbled and honoured by this recognition of the work conducted by me as part of multidisciplinary teams of nurses, doctors, health and medical scientists, microbiologists, engineers, statisticians, geographers and thousands of brave patients and volunteers. It has been an honour to work with them.
“These people, who step out of the disciplines in which they were trained and become something new, are a very special driver in the discovery of new knowledge, and its application for the benefit of other people. I am inspired by the young researchers in Network for Anti-Microbial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP) who are catching the ‘multidisciplinary bug’ and doing such tremendous work ‘in the gaps between the piano keys’.”
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