Mark Walport
English medical scientist and immunologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE (born 25 January 1953[1]) is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017[13] to 2020.[14] In 2023 he became the Foreign Secretary of The Royal Society (jointly with Alison Noble).[15]
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Born | Mark Jeremy Walport (1953-01-25) 25 January 1953 (age 71)[1] London, England |
Education | St Paul's School, London |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD)[1] |
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Julia Elizabeth Neild
(m. 1986) |
Children | one son, three daughters[1] |
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Fields | Immunology Rheumatology |
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Thesis | The biology of complement receptors (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Lachmann[5] |
Website | gov |
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