Rate My Professor Alan McGregor

Professor Alan McGregor is Vice Chairman and Trustee of the Foundation for Liver Research. Having grown up in Southern Africa, he qualified in Medicine from Cambridge University and completed postgraduate training in Newcastle upon Tyne and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, with Tony Fauci. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at King’s College London in 1986, holding deanery positions in the university and senior positions in the Medical Research Council. McGregor also occupied senior roles at the Wellcome Trust and British Heart Foundation, as well as international positions at the Universities of Geneva and the West Indies. He served as President of the European Society of Clinical Investigation and was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. He is a Fellow of King’s College London and an Emeritus Professor there.

His research focuses on organ-specific autoimmune diseases, particularly thyroid disorders, with expertise in thyroid cancer and multiple endocrine neoplasia. Key publications include "Lateral cervical lymph node metastases in papillary thyroid cancer: a systematic review of imaging-guided and prophylactic removal of the lateral compartment" (2012) and "The Clinical Spectrum of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a Caused by the Rare Intracellular RET Mutation S891A" (2010). He contributed to projects on the renin-angiotensin system and PPAR gamma agonists in beta cell damage, molecular cardiology, and myositis, amassing 677 citations. After retiring from King’s College London around 2013, he retrained in HIV/AIDS at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and spent five years as Visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. A long-standing colleague of Professor Roger Williams, McGregor joined the Foundation for Liver Research to raise academic activity and identify a successor as Director of the Institute.