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Peter Ratcliffe MD

University of Oxford


Peter Ratcliffe studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. After positions at the London Postgraduate Hospitals he moved to Oxford to train as a nephrologist. Following specialist clinical training he became interested in the regulation of the haematopoietic growth factor erythropoietin, which is produced by the kidneys in response to reduced blood oxygen availability. This work led to the unexpected discovery that the oxygen sensing process underlying the regulation of erythropoietin production operates widely across human and animal cells and to the current understanding of the mechanisms involved.

He served as Nuffield Professor and Head of Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 2004-2016. In May 2016 he was appointed Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute, London, retaining a position at Oxford as Director of the Target Discovery Institute and Member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.


Appearances

  • Thumbnail for Nobel Prize ePanel: William Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe & Gregg Semenza
    Date
    June 26, 2020
    In January 2020, recent Nobel Laureates Drs. Gregg Semenza [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2019/semenza/facts/], Peter Ratcliffe [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2019/ratcliffe/facts/], and William Kaelin [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2019/kaelin/facts/], Jr…

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for William Kaelin
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Speaker Image for Peter Ratcliffe
    University of Oxford
    Speaker Image for Gregg Semenza
    Gregg Semenza, MD, PhD
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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