On May 29, 2016, professor Michael Thompson from the University of Toronto, Canada, visited the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, and signed a cooperation agreement with the Forensic Science Instrument Research Center (FSIRC), planning to develop multifunctional biological chips in forensic science and establish an international joint lab in the next three years.
Professor Michael Thompson was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998. He has received many awards for his work including the Fisher Scientific Lecture and Steacie Awards of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations Award for teaching excellently.From the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, he has been presented with the Theophilus Redwood, Industrially-Sponsored Chemical Analysis and Instrumentation and Boyle Gold Medal Awards. In 2007 he was given the E.T.S Walton Award of Science Foundation Ireland and in this connection received a Visiting Scientist appointment at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork City. He serves in the Editorial Advisory Boards of journals like Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Talanta, Chemical Sensor Technology, the Analyst, Analytical Communications, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and as Editor, the Analytical Chemistry and the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. He has hosted more than 60 projects, published more than 400 papers, owns more than 40 patents, and was invited to speeches for more than 300 times all over the world.
Excecutive Director of the FSIRC, Hongxia Hao (left); Professor Thompson Michael (middle) and Darlene Anne Gorzo (right)
The research of Professor Michael Thompson is to develop new techniques for the label-free detection of biochemical events at the liquid (especially blood, serum and plasma) - solid interface. In terms of perspective, the aim is to generate new technologies for application in bioanalytical chemistry and detection science, notably in the areas of clinical diagnostics, biocompatibility and nanomedicine. The work is highly interdisciplinary in character and involves activities ranging from the design and manufacture of new instruments to theoretical calculations. Research staffs need to possess multidisciplinary expertise involving areas such as analytical chemistry, basic electronics, surface chemistry, biochemistry, computational methods, and materials science. The purpose of this visit is to establish an International Joint Laboratory for detection of dangerous goods and explosives with the FSIRC, to combine the advanced biological chip technology of the University of Toronto and our portable detective devices of FSIRC, and by exchanging researchers and developing technics, to achieve on-site rapid detection of dangerous goods and explosives early.
Professor Thompson Michael and our side are discussing about the plan for cooperation.
The two parties are discussing about technical route design and research plan.