Journal of Bioengineering & Biomedical Science

Peter Gardner

Peter Gardner
The University of Manchester, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), UK

Biography

Dr. Gardner is a Reader in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester, UK. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry in 1984 and PhD in surface vibrational spectroscopy in 1988 from the University of East Anglia UK. After two successful post doctoral appointments at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge he joined the Department of Chemistry at UMIST in 1994. He has published over 100 research papers and book chapters in the field of vibrational spectroscopy and since 2000 he has built a very successful biospectroscopy group. His current laboratory is based on the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and his research involves infrared and Raman spectroscopic diagnosis of cancer.

Research Interest

Spectroscopic cancer diagnosis, Spectroscopic pathology, Molecular biomarkers, Drug-cell interaction studies, Infrared scattering from biological samples.