Professor Magdi Yaqoob
Joint Head of Department
Centre: Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Email: m.m.yaqoob@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 2121
Profile
Magdi Yaqoob is Professor of Nephrology within Centre for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics at the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI) and academic director of department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation at the Barts Health NHS Trust, UK. He graduated as one of the best graduates in Medicine (1982) from Dow Medical College, Karachi University, Pakistan. After general professional clinical training during which he obtained membership of the Royal College of Physician London (1985) he started specialist nephrology training in Liverpool, UK in 1987. He submitted his MD thesis on occupational factors in kidney disease in Liverpool University 1993. He obtained NIH fellowship to work as postdoctoral clinician/scientist under Prof Robert Schrier at Denver Colorado (194-1995). He joined the Royal London Hospital as consultant in 1996 and was awarded personal chair in Nephrology by QMUL in 2011. He received several awards (best European young investigator of the year 1992 and trainee investigator of the year by association of physicians USA, 1994).
Magdi Yaqoob is an internationally recognised expert in nephrology and transplant medicine in area of cardiovascular diseases of uraemia, renal anaemia, and renal bone disease, progression of chronic kidney disease and mediators of acute kidney injury.