Rajesh Thakker

May Professor of Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, United Kingdom

Rajesh Thakker is May Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism), Consultant Physician at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

The mission of his group is to investigate the molecular basis of important endocrine and metabolic disorders that principally affect calcium and phosphate homeostasis. These disorders may be due to endocrine neoplasia, renal tubular defects, or abnormalities of bone metabolism. Thus, the identification of the underlying mechanisms is expected to lead to advances in our understanding of a number of clinical disorders that result in endocrine tumour development, kidney stones and bone deformities. Research activities can be broadly divided into two parallel but complementary programmes, endocrine tumours and related parathyroid; and renal tubular and hypercalciuric stone disorders.

Professor Thakker has been the recipient of many prizes, which include the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, the Raymond-Horton Smith Prize (Cambridge University, UK), the Society for Endocrinology (UK) medal, the European Journal of Endocrinology Prize, and the Graham Bull Prize from the Royal College of Physicians (UK).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Diabetes & Endocrinology > Bone & Mineral Metabolism (since 16 November 2005)

Rajesh Thakker is a Section Head for Bone & Mineral Metabolism, part of the DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

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