Rajesh Vasantlal Thakker Federal Reserve System FMedSci FRCPath Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians is May Professor of Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Education
Thakker was educated at, Cambridge where he was awarded his Master of Arts (Master of Arts), Bachelor of Medicine (Bachelor of Medicine BChir), Doctor of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine) and Doctor of Science (Doctor of Science) degrees. He completed his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
Career
Thakker is also a Consultant physician at the Churchill Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Chairman of the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Board and Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator) at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM). Thakker"s research investigates neuroendocrine tumours such as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) and the molecular basis of disorders of calcium homeostasis. He has supervised nine successful Doctor of Philosophy students and his research has been funded by the Medical Council (Medical Research Council).
Thakker has edited several books including Genetic and Molecular Biological Aspects of Endocrine Disease, Molecular Genetics of Endocrine Disorders, and Genetics of Bone Biology and Skeletal Disease.