About Ketan J. Patel
Ketan Jayakrishna Patel is a British–Kenyan scientist who is Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford. Until 2020 he was a tenured principal investigator at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). Patel originally trained as a gastroenterologist but also was awarded an MRC training fellowship to work with Michael Neuberger FRS at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (1989–1993). After his PhD, Patel was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist. In 1976, Patel left Kenya to continue his secondary education at Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
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