Christopher D. Buckley

Undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford (1985) with subsequent graduate entry in Medicine (MBBS) at the Royal Free Hospital, London (1990). My postgraduate medical training was in General Medicine and Rheumatology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London (Mark Walport, Dorian Haskard), and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. I obtained a DPhil arising from a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship with John Bell and David Simmons at the Institute Molecular Medicine, Oxford. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist Fellowship, I joined the Department of Rheumatology in Birmingham in 1996. In 2001 I was awarded an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship and in 2002 became Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology. In 2012 I was appointed Director of the Birmingham NIHR Clinical Research Facility. In 2017 I took up a joint academic post between the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford as Director of the Arthritis Therapy Acceleration Programme. In September 2021 I moved to the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Oxford and Director of clinical research.