This is a list of professorships at the University of Oxford. During the early history of the university, the title of professor meant a doctor who taught. From the 16th century, it was used for those holding a professorship, also known as a chair. The university has sometimes created professorships for an individual, the chair coming to an end when that individual dies or retires, and now awards titular professorships in the form of Titles of Distinction: these are not listed here. The Regius Professorships are royal chairs created by a reigning monarch. The first five (in civil law, divinity, medicine, Hebrew and Greek) are sometimes called the Henrician chairs. Professorships Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies Alastair Buchan Professor of International Relations Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law American Standard Companies Professor of Operations Management Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology as Applied to Medicine Barclay-Williams Professor of Molecular Immunology Barnett Professor of Social Policy Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy Blavatnik Professor of Public Policy Boden Professor of Sanskrit BP Professor of Economics BP Professor of Information Engineering British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology Brownlee-Abraham Professor of Molecular Biology BT Professor of Major Programme Management Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies Camden Professor of Ancient History Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre Cancer Research UK Professor of Medical Oncology César Milstein Professor of Cancer Cell Biology Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science Cheryl and Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry Chichele Professors Chichele Professor of Economic History Chichele Professor of Medieval History Chichele Professor of Public International Law Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Chichele Professor of the History of War Climax Professor of Clinical Therapeutics Corpus Christi Professor of Latin Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering Donald Schultz Professor of Turbomachinery Dr Lee's Professors Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental