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Professor Rajesh Thakker

Rajesh

Professor of Medicine

Centre: Endocrinology

Email: r.thakker@qmul.ac.uk

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OBE, MD, ScD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS

Rajesh Thakker was Professor of Medicine (1999-2023) at the University of Oxford, and is currently Professor of Medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI), Queen Mary University London (QMUL). He is also a Fellow of Somerville College and Harris Manchester College, Oxford. 

His main research interests include the molecular basis of disorders of calcium homeostasis and he has authored over 500 publications, which have included peer-reviewed papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Lancet Journals. 

He is a Consultant Endocrinologist who provides expertise in the fields of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), and disorders of calcium and phosphate metabolism. He was previously Professor of Medicine at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, The Hammersmith Hospital, London, until 1999, when he took up the position in Oxford. 

He has served on the MRC Physiological Medicine and Infections Board (2000-2005), the Council for the Society for Endocrinology (2003-2006), as Chairman of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) / MRC Efficacy and Mechanisms Evaluations (EME) Board (2008-2016), Member of Wellcome Trust Science Awards Interview Panel (2018-2022), and as the President of the Society for Endocrinology (2019-2022). 

He has been the recipient of many prizes which include: Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), USA (1988); the Raymond-Horton Smith Prize (Cambridge University, UK) (1994); the Society for Endocrinology (UK) medal (1995); the European Journal of Endocrinology Prize (EFES) (1998); WPU Jackson Memorial Lecture, Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes in South Africa (SEMSDA) (1998); the Graham Bull Prize from the Royal College of Physicians (UK) (1999); Bernard Pimstone Memorial Lecture, SEMSDA (2003 and 2016); the Parathyroid Medal from the Fondazione Raffaella Becagli (FIRMO) (2012); the Jack W. Coburn Endowed Lectureship from the American Society of Nephrology (2012); the Louis V Avioli Founder’s Award from the ASBMR (USA) (2009); the International Research Prize from the Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research (2015); the Dale Medal from the Society for Endocrinology (UK) (2015); the Phillippe Bordier Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) (2020); the Louis V Avioli Memorial Lecture from the ASBMR (USA) (2021); and the Ian MacIntyre Award from The WHRI, QMUL (2024).  
He is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR), the official journal of the ASBMR.  Professor Thakker was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014, and appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours list (2024).

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