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
Professor Stephen Goodwin
Professor Gero Miesenböck
Dr Maheshi Ramasamy
The Revd Professor Robert Gilbert
Professor Quentin Sattentau
Dr Rebecca Shakir
Professor John Stein
Professor Sir Adrian Hill KBE
Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Professor Michael Goldacre
Dr Dominic Alonzi
Professor Chris Garland
Professor Peter Sullivan
