Timothy Cox#
| Membership Number: | 5332 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.med.cam.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4951-9941 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Director of Research, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge, Hon Consultant Metabolic Physician
- 1990 Professorial Fellow (now Life Fellow), Sidney Sussex college Cambridge
- 1989 - 2015 Full Professor Medicine, University of Cambridge, Hon Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's hospital
- 1989 - 2014 Founding Director, MB/PhD Programme University of Cambridge
- 1987 - 1989 Senior Lecturer in Haematology & Medicine, Royal Postgrad Med Schl, Hammersmith, London (Imperial coll)
- 1985 - 1987 Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, (Imperial College London)
- 1986 (03-09) Visiting scientist Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford (with Francisco E Baralle)
- 1979 - 1985 Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow in Medical Science, Dept Medicine RPMS, Hammersmith Hospital
- 1983 - 1984 (05-10) Visiting Scientist, Dept Biology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, USA
- 1977 - 1979 MRC Training Fellow in Cell Biology, Royal Postgraduate Med. School, Hammersmith, London
- 1974 - 1977 Intermediate Residency Posts Royal Postgraduate Medical School & United Oxford hospitals,
- 1972 - 1974 Junior Lecturer (Instructor) Morbid Anatomy, London Hospital Medical College, University of London
- 1971 - 1972 Medical Residencies, Internal Medicine & Surgery, The London (now Royal London) hospital
- 2013 Vice-Chair, Croucher Foundation , Hong Kong (Trustee 2001-)
- 2013 - 2015 Président, Translational Research Awards Committee, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
- 2000 - 2002 President, Cambridge Philosophical Society (Mem Council, 1994-,
- 1993 - 2010 Co-Founder and Vice-Chair , European Working Group for Study of Gaucher disease
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical pioneer of successful substrate reduction therapy in sphingolipid diseases
- Enzyme targeting, gene transfer
- Human biochemical genetics
Honours and Awards
- 1979 - 1985 Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellowship and US Travelling Award
- 1984 Member of Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, (Executive Committee 1995 - 1997)
- 1985 Wellcome Trust Senior Lectureship in Medical Science
- 1994 Schorstein Memorial Lecture, The London Hospital Medical College
- 1996 Bradshaw Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians of London
- 2001 Flynn Lecture, Royal College of Pathologists
- 2009 Flynn Lecture, Royal College of Pathologists
- 2012 Gold Medal, Hong Kong College of Physicians (MacFadzean Oration)
- 2012 Hunterian Oration, The Hunterian Society of London
- 2012 Benoziyo Lecture, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 2013 Clé du Lysosome Lauréat: Clé de la Compréhension Vaincre les Maladies Lysosomales, Collége de France, Paris
- 2017 Imagine and Believe Honoree. National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Foundation, USA (60th Foundation year)
- 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Award, University of Cambridge: Innovative Therapies for Lysosomal Diseases
