AMAC Sir Keith Peters

Prof Sir Keith Peters

Chairman, Academic Medicine Advisory Council (AMAC)
Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic
University of Cambridge

From 1977 to 1987 Keith Peters was Professor and Director of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital and from 1987-2005 Regius Professor of Physic and the Head of the Clinical School at the University of Cambridge. His research has been on elucidation of immunological mechanisms underlying diseases of kidney and blood vessels, and this has led to new treatments – in particular the introduction of plasma exchange and immunosuppression - for these diseases.

Cambridge, under his leadership, has become a major centre for clinical research, complementing the University’s longstanding strengths in basic biomedical science. He was a founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and its second President. From 2006-2008 he was Interim Director of the MRC’s National Institute for Medical Research and initiated discussions which led to the establishment of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, the Francis Crick Institute. The Institute – which opened in 2016 - is a partnership between the MRC, CRUK, The Wellcome Trust, and UCL, KCL and Imperial College.

He has been involved in Singapore medicine in various ways, including advisory roles on Biopolis, the A*Star Graduate Academy and the Duke-NUS Medical School. From 2005 to 2016 he was a Senior Consultant in R&D at GSK. He was Knighted in 1993 and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995. In 2018 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for services to medical sciences.

Prof Ivy Ng

SingHealth GCEO