Peter F. Davies, a professor of pathology & laboratory medicine in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, was awarded the ScD (doctor of science) degree from Cambridge University last month. A Cambridge alumnus, Dr. Davies completed his PhD at Darwin College in 1975. The ScD is one of six Higher Doctorates at the University of Cambridge awarded for academic distinction and authority in a field of knowledge over the course of a career.

This Higher Doctorate caps multiple honors that Dr. Davies has received for seminal research in both cardiovascular pathophysiology and biomechanics. Continuously funded by the NIH since 1979, he is a pioneering investigator in cell and molecular mechanotransduction and a leading authority on the role of hemodynamic mechanisms in vascular physiology and atherogenesis.