Biography
Sir Peter John Ratcliffe , FRS , FMedSci (born 14 May 1954) is a British physician-scientist who is trained as a nephrologist . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a practising clinician at the John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford and Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine and head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016. He has been a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2004. In 2016 he became Clinical Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute , [ 4 ] retaining a position at Oxford as a member of the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research and director of the Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford. [ 5 ] Ratcliffe is best known for his work on cellular reactions to hypoxia , for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ratcliffe was born in Lancashire [ 8 ] on 14 May 1954, to William Ratcliffe, a lawyer, and Alice Margaret Ratcliffe, a telephonist. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School from 1965 to 1972. [ 11 ] Education: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
About the Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodard Lasker (a medical research activist). The awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels."
Quick Facts
- Award: Lasker Award - Basic Medical Research
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Established: 1946
- Presented by: Lasker Foundation