Prof. Cyrus Cooper

Cyrus Cooper is renowned as a leading researcher in the epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, most notably osteoporosis. He is Professor of Rheumatology and the former Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and Vice-Dean of Medicine at the University of Southampton; and Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) from 2017 to 2024. He has published extensively (over 1000 research papers, h-index 209) on osteoporosis and rheumatic disorders and pioneered clinical studies on the developmental origins of peak bone mass. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE for services to medical research.