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`Professor William Bonfield CBE, DSc,
`FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIMMM, FInstP,
`FRSC, FIPEM, FBSE
`Professor William Bonfield is Emeritus
`Professor of Medical Materials in the
`University of Cambridge. He
`is
`internationally
`recognised
`for his
`pioneering research contributions to
`biomaterials for medical devices, with
`awards including the Royal Academy
`of Engineering Prince Philip Gold
`Medal, the Royal Society Armourers
`and Brasiers Company Medal, the
`Kelvin Medal, the European Society
`for Biomaterials George Winter
`Award,
`the Japanese Society
`for
`Biomaterials Medal,the
`Institute of
`Materials Griffiths Medal
`and
`Chapman Medal, the UK Society for
`Biomaterials President's Prize,
`the
`Acta Metallurgica H.H.Holloman
`Award and the International Union for Physical Sciences and
`Engineering in Medicine Award of Merit. Professor Bonfield's
`exceptional interdisciplinary contribution has been recognised by
`his election to all three UK National Academies,namely as a Fellow
`of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of
`Engineering (FREng) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical
`Sciences (FMedSci).
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`Professor Bonfield was educated at Imperial College,receiving a
`BSc(Eng)degree with First Class Honours, the Perry Memorial
`Medal for distinction in Mathematics and Mechanics and the
`Bessemer Medal for distinction in Metallurgy,followed by a PhD.He
`then worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Honeywell
`Research Centre in Minneapolis,before returning to the UK as
`Reader in Materials Science at Queen Mary College.Subsequently
`he became Professor of Materials,Head of the Department of
`Materials,Chairman of the School of Engineering and Dean of
`Engineering.At Queen Mary,he created and became Director in
`1991 of the University of London Interdisciplinary Research Centre
`(IRC) in Biomedical Materials,which was the first of its kind in the
`UK.In 1999,Professor Bonfield was elected as Professor of Medical
`Materials in the University of Cambridge,where he established and
`directed the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials and the Pfizer
`Institute of Pharmaceutical Materials Science.
`Professor Bonfield has published over 450 research papers and
`has 80 patents on biomaterials,biomechanics and materials
`science.From his innovative research on synthetic bone grafts and
`cartilage repair scaffolds,he founded two successful MedTech
`companies, ApaTech Ltd (now Baxter) and OrthoMimetics Ltd (now
`TiGenix).A distinguished editor, Professor Bonfield was Editor of
`Journal of Materials Science from 1973 to 2002, Founding Editor of
`Journal of Materials Science- Materials in Medicine and the first
`Editor of Journal of the Royal Society-Interface. In 1998, Professor
`Bonfield was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by
`the Queen for his services to health care and materials science.
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