Anthony Campbell (British biochemist) (original) (raw)

Anthony Keith Campbell FLS, FLSW, CBE (born 30 April 1945) is a British biochemist and honorary Professor based in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University in Wales. He is a specialist in intracellular signaling, particularly calcium and bioluminescence. He invented the application of a chemiluminescent label in immunoassay and DNA testing, developed with colleagues, and now used in several hundred million clinical tests per year worldwide. He also proposed that the illness that afflicted Charles Darwin for fifty years may have lactose and food intolerance.