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Peter R. Holt, MD was born into a Jewish German family in Berlin, Germany and left in 1939, with his parents, shortly after Kristallnacht. The family relocated to England, where he pursued medical studies at The London Hospital Medical College and following an internship at The London, two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He came to the United States to pursue additional medical studies, being accepted for a residency at St. Luke’s Hospital, and later a research fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was invited to establish the Department of Gastroenterology at St. Luke's Hospital, later St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he trained over 100 gastroenterologists. In 2000 he resigned from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center to pursue clinical translational research interests. For the past decade, he has been a Senior Research Scientist at The Rockefeller University using its nutritional and metabolic facilities to conduct translational human studies in cancer prevention.
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