Professor John Porter
NHP Deputy Chair
Biography
John Porter is Professor of Haematology and Consultant Haematologist at the University College London Hospitals in London, UK and head of the joint Red Cell Unit for UCLH and Whittington Hospitals. His clinical and research focus has been of thalassaemia and sickle cell disorders, with particular reference including iron overload, the mechanisms of iron chelation, the speciation and uptake of Non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI) species. In 1999 he was awarded the Lionel Whitby Medal for MD of exceptional merit by Cambridge University, in 2008 he received the Prix Galien at the Houses of Parliament on behalf of Novartis for 'Deferasirox as outstanding orphan drug', and in 2017 received the IBIS Marcel Simon award from the International BioIron Society for excellence in research on Non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI). . Professor Porter has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles with over 10,000 citations and an H index of 52.
