Peter C. Taylor holds the Norman Collisson chair of musculoskeletal sciences at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of St. Peter’s College Oxford. He studied pre-clinical medical sciences at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge and his first degree was a BA(Cantab) Physiology in 1982. He subsequently studied clinical medicine at the University of Oxford and graduated in 1985 with BM and BCh degrees. He was awarded a PhD degree in 1996 from the University of London for research on pathogenesis of arthritis and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2000 and a distinguished member of the British Society for Rheumatology in 2016. He has clinical interests in inflammatory arthritis and has over thirty years of experience in clinical trial design and international leadership in studies of biologic and small molecular therapies in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.