Philip Randle

Sir Philip John Randle (16 July 1926 – 26 September 2006) was a British biochemist and medical researcher after whom the Randle cycle is named.

Early life and education Born 16 July 1926 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Randle was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Nuneaton; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read the Natural Sciences Tripos, graduating with first-class honours and an M.A.; University College Hospital and the UCL Medical School, where he read medicine and graduated with an M.D.

After qualifying as a medical doctor, Randle returned to the University of Cambridge to undertake a Ph.D. under Professor Frank George Young. For his doctoral thesis entitled "Studies on the Metabolic Action of Insulin", he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1955 and was immediately appointed lecturer in biochemistry at the university.

In 1975 he moved to be founding professor and chairman of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at Oxford, holding the post until 1993.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983 and was President of the Biochemical Society from 1995 to 2000. He was knighted in 1975.

Research Randle was a prominent diabetes mellitus researcher who described the eponymous Randle Cycle of carbohydrate and fat metabolism.