Charles Rizza
Consultant physician, specialising in haematology
About Charles Rizza
Lived 1930 – 2022 (aged 91–92).
Charles Rocco Carmine Rizza FRCPEd (1930 – 19 July 2022) was a British consultant physician who specialised in haematology.
Biography Rizza graduated with an MD from the University of St Andrews in 1962, and was awarded the university's gold medal for his thesis Conditions affecting the level of antihaemophilic globulin (factor VIII) in the blood.
Between 1958 and 1961, Rizza held the post of Medical Research Council Clinical Research Fellow at the Blood Coagulation Research Unit in Oxford.
In 2017 Rizza was criticised for his role in the Contaminated Blood Scandal in documents which appeared to advocate viral infectivity trials in humans rather than chimps. The documents were cited by Andy Burnham in the House of Commons.
Rizza died on 19 July 2022, at the age of 92.
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Who was Charles Rizza?
consultant physician, specialising in haematology
When was Charles Rizza born?
Charles Rizza was born on 17 January 1930.
When did Charles Rizza die?
Charles Rizza died in 2022 in Oxfordshire.
What nationality was Charles Rizza?
Charles Rizza's recorded nationality: British people.
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