Magdi Yaqoob
Prof Magdi Yaqoob, MD, FRCP
Magdi Yaqoob, MD, FRCP (Medical Director since 2003) is a Professor of Nephrology and Academic Director for the Department of Clinical Nephrology and Transplantation at Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust. He is also Director of Diabetic Kidney Centre for East London and member of advisory board for Barts Life Sciences centre and Joint National Formulary for BNF.
Magdi Yaqoob is an internationally recognised expert in nephrology. He leads a research program designed to gain a better insight into the mechanisms underlying uraemic cardiovascular disease, diabetic nephropathy pharmacogenomics in transplantation, renal anaemia, and renal bone disease, progression of chronic kidney disease and mediators of acute kidney injury. He has been involved in and co-ordinated a number of large clinical trials relating to testing the efficacy of novel therapeutics in acute and chronic renal disease. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications with H-Index of 54 in addition to seven book chapters in medical text books including Clinical Medicine by Kumar & Clark, Oxford Clinical Medicine and Oxford Clinical Nephrology.
As an Educator, he has supervised more than 25 PhD-students, many of which have become leaders in their chosen fields of medicine and hospital management. Together with Professor Thiemermann, he has developed commercially funded 10 HCA-Barts Clinical PhD/MD studentships.
