Sir Peter Ratcliffe was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly with William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for the discovery of how cells adapt to the presence of oxygen.
Former ISN President, John Feehally, held an exclusive interview with Sir Peter Ratcliffe tracing his career from medical student at Cambridge, through nephrology specialization, and into research.
Listen to the ISN podcast and find out:
- why Sir Ratcliffe chose to study nephrology
- how he became a researcher
- what he learned from working on case reports
- how the research findings that led to his Nobel Prize were initially a “nuisance”
- what surprised him along his career path
