Cope, Leslie

Cuthbert Leslie Cope (1903–1975) was an English physician and endocrinologist. He graduated in 1924 BA from the University of Oxford. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MRCP in 1930. He graduated BM BCh in 1927 and DM in 1932. He held his residency appointments at University College Hospital. He began research as a Beit Fellow in 1929 in the biochemistry department at Oxford. His first interest was renal excretion of non-threshold substances (sulphate, creatinine) and in 1931–2, at the Rockefeller Hospital, New York, with D. D. Van Slyke, he further analysed renal function tests. On his return to the UK he held appointments successively at St Thomas' Hospital, University College Hospital, and the Radcliffe Infirmary. ... in the 1930s he contributed important studies on the anterior pituitary lobe in Graves' disease and myxoedema, on thyrotrophin assay, on the use of antithyrotrophic serum, and on pregnanediol measurements in pregnancy and in toxaemia. Cope was elected FRCP in 1939. In 1940 he published his paper The Diagnostic Value of Pregnandiol Excretion in Pregnancy Disorders. He became in 1942 a lieutenant-colonel...