Tonia Vincent

University of Oxford

Tonia Vincent studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1993. She trained as a junior doctor in London, later specialising in Rheumatology. In 2002 she received a PhD (University of London) at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under Jerry Saklatvala. As a clinician scientist she has had fellowships from the Wellcome Trust and Arthritis Research UK. In 2012 the Kennedy Institute became part of the University of Oxford and she was appointed Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology and director of the Versus Arthritis Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis. In 2022 she became Deputy Director (clinical) of the Kennedy Institute and in 2023, the Kennedy Trust Maini Feldmann professor of translational musculoskeletal science. Her research interests include the molecular pathways that explain how cartilage responds to injury, their role in structural and symptomatic osteoarthritis, and development of experimental medicine to demonstrate proof of concept evidence for successful targeting in patients. She has been awarded the International Elise Jourdevant prize from the OA Foundation and the OARSI Basic Science award. She continues to be clinically active, running both hand osteoarthritis clinics and as rheumatology lead in the Oxford multidisciplinary Marfan Syndrome clinic.