Professor Victor Hoffbrand FMedSci

Professor Victor Hoffbrand is Emeritus Professor of Haematology at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine. He has had a distinguished career in haematological research. His initial contributions involved study of the interrelationships between vitamin B12 deficiency and folate metabolism. Subsequently he turned his attention to aspects of iron chelation and was the first to report the clinical use of the oral iron chelator, deferiprone.