Professor Robert Graham Russell FRS FMedSci

Professor Graham Russell is Norman Collison Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford. He has made a series of outstanding contributions to the medical sciences in the arenas of calcium and bone metabolism. He identified pyrophosphate as the main substrate for alkaline phosphatase and went on to characterise the biological effect of the bisphosphonates and their role as inhibitors of mevalonate metabolism and protein prenylation. He established the use of bisphosphonates for the treatment of Paget’s disease, metastatic bone disease and osteoporosis. He was the first British clinical scientist to receive the Neuman Award of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research.