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Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK

Zoltan Takats has produced breakthroughs in desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), as well as rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) – which is at the heart of the iKnife, the technology Takats is perhaps best known for. The iKnife is a “smart scalpel” that surgeons can use to determine whether a tissue being removed is cancerous or not.