Professor Richard Cornall
Subject: Medicine and Biomedical Science
Department: Medicine
College appointment: Professorial Fellow
Academic position: Nuffield Professor of Medicine, Head of Department
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Background
Richard Cornall grew up on the Isle of Wight and went to state schools there. He studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge (MA), and then Clinical Medicine (BM BCh) and Genetics (DPhil) at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Research Fellow in Immunology at Stanford University, before returning to Oxford as an Honorary Consultant in Renal Medicine and Professor of Immunology at Corpus Christi College. He was appointed Nuffield Professor of Medicine and Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in 2019.
Research
Richard Cornall is interested in several aspects of inherited and acquired human disease, genetics, the study of biochemical pathways and pathology at the level of single cells. His research has covered the use of genetic screens and models, the genetics of type 1 diabetes, B cells, immune tolerance and regulation, ageing, cancer susceptibility and inherited forms of human immunodeficiency.
Department Staff
Dr Rebecca Shakir
Dr Lauren Phillips
Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Professor Gero Miesenböck
Professor Peter Sullivan
Professor Michael Goldacre
Professor Quentin Sattentau
Dr Dominic Alonzi
Professor Adrian Hill, Kt.
Professor John Stein
The Revd Professor Robert Gilbert
Professor Chris Garland
Dr Maheshi Ramasamy
