Peter I Croucher 27th Lorne Cancer Conference 2015

Peter I Croucher

Peter undertook his training at the University College Cardiff and the University of Wales College of Medicine. He did post-doctoral training in the Department of Medicine and LMB in Cambridge and Clinical Biochemistry in Sheffield where he became a Leukeamia Research Fund Bennett Senior Research Fellow. In 2001 he moved to the Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences at Oxford University. In 2009 Peter was appointed the inaugural joint Direct of the Mellanby Center for Bone Research and the Head of the Department of Human Metabolism, at the University of Sheffield. Peter joined the Garvan Institute in December 2011 as Head of the Osteoporosis and Bone Program and now leads the Division of Bone Biology. Peter’s research interests are in understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for physiological and pathological regulation of the skeleton. He has a particular interest in tumors that grow in bone such as multiple myeloma, or those that metastasise to bone, including prostate and breast cancer.