Professor Hagan Bayley
FRS, FLSW
Honorary Fellow
Professor of Chemical Biology
Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. A founder of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, he is internationally recognised for his pioneering work on nanopore technology, synthetic biology and tissue engineering. In 2025 he was appointed as Principal Scientist at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, launching the newly established Materials & Devices for Life Sciences Institute.
Major interests of Professor Bayley’s laboratory are the development of engineered pores for stochastic sensing, the study of covalent chemistry at the single molecule level, ultrarapid DNA sequencing and the fabrication of synthetic tissues. In 2005, Dr Bayley founded Oxford Nanopore to exploit the potential of stochastic sensing technology. The company has developed the MinION portable DNA sequencer. In 2014, he founded OxSyBio to build synthetic tissues for regenerative medicine.