Rate My Professor Chris Buckley

Professor Christopher Buckley is the Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology and Director of Clinical Research at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. He obtained a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 1985, followed by an MB BS from the University of London in 1990 after undergraduate medical training at the Royal Free Hospital. He completed postgraduate training in general medicine and rheumatology at the Hammersmith Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Buckley earned a DPhil in Medicine from the University of Oxford in 1996 through a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship.

In 1996, he joined the Department of Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham with a Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist Fellowship. He received an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in 2001 and was appointed Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology in 2002. In 2012, he became Director of the Birmingham NIHR Clinical Research Facility. Buckley was appointed Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology in 2017 and moved full-time to the University of Oxford in September 2021, where he also serves as Director of NIHR Infrastructure for Birmingham Health Partners. He leads the Arthritis Therapy Acceleration Programme (A-TAP), which focuses on stratified pathology in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases through basket trials and tissue-based research. His laboratory investigates the role of fibroblasts in rheumatoid arthritis and related conditions as part of the Stromal Cell Biology group. Buckley holds an FRCP and maintains honorary affiliations with the University of Birmingham.