Honours
Matthews has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Wales, Glamorgan, and Swansea, and Carleton University.
In 1994, he was awarded an OBE
In June 2001, he was conferred the honour of Knight bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He was knighted by HM The Queen at an investiture in Buckingham Palace.
In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Engineering) from the University of Bath.
In 2011, he was appointed Patron of the Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute at Cardiff University.
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