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Peter C. Taylor

Peter C. Taylor MA, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE

Rheumatology
Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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Peter C. Taylor holds the Norman Collison Chair of musculoskeletal sciences at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of St. Peter’s College. He is Head of Clinical Sciences at the Botnar Research Centre within the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences. He was formerly Professor of Experimental Rheumatology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College London and Dean of the Charing Cross campus. He studied pre-clinical medical sciences at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge and his first degree was in Physiology.

He subsequently studied clinical medicine at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD degree from the University of London for research on the pathogenesis of arthritis. In the summer of 2015, he was appointed medical director of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, an outstanding patient led-charity. Professor Taylor chaired the UK government and NIHR Translational Research Partnership in rheumatology from 2015-18, an initiative bringing together the UK's leading academic and clinical centres for experimental medicine and translational research into a ready-formed partnership of Universities and NHS hospitals. He was elected a distinguished member of the British Society for Rheumatology in 2016 and delivered the Heberden Round that year.
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