Eric Aboagye

Eric Ofori Aboagye is a professor of cancer pharmacology and molecular imaging at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was awarded the British Institute of Radiology Sir Mackenzie Davidson Medal in 2009. He is co-director of the Imperial College London Experimental Cancer Medicine's Centre.

Early life and education Aboagye was born in Ghana. He studied pharmacy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1989.

Research and career Aboagye joined Imperial College London as a research associate in 1998.

He has demonstrated that artificial intelligence is significantly more accurate than blood tests in predicting the survival rates of ovarian cancer. For the study, Aboagye used TexLab to analyse CT scans and establish the health risks associated with different tumours.

Awards and honours His awards and honours include:

2009 British Institute of Radiology Sir Mackenzie Davidson Medal 2010 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Selected publications His publications include: