Prof Sir Peter Ratcliffe wins Lasker research award
28 September 2016
The University of Oxford's Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe has won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in medicine, for his work understanding the mechanisms by which cells sense and signal hypoxia (low oxygen levels). Hypoxia is an important component of many human diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke, vascular disease, and anaemia.