Keith Peters#
Membership Number: | 750 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1990 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
- Senior Consultant in Research and Development for GlaxoSmithKline
- 2008 Chairman for Global Medical Excellence Cluster
- 2006 - 2008 Interim Director of the MRC National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London
- 2002 - 2006 President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1987 - 2005 Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge; Head of the School of Clinical Medicine
- 1977 - 1987 Director of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School
- 1977 Professor of Medicine; Director of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School
- 1969 Consultant grade with his first appointment at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital
- 1965 Clinical research fellow at Medical Research Council, Birmingham and at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London
- Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS), Hammersmith Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology of renal and vascular disease
- Delineation of immunological mechanisms
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bristol
- 2002 President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1998 Founder fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1995 Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 1993 Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List
- 1987 Regius Professor of Physics, Cambridge
- Chairman of council of Cardiff University,
- Co-chair of the Council for Science & Technology
- Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- Honorary Fellow of Christ's College and Clare Hall, Cambridge
- Member of Academia Europaea