Mark Jeremy Walport#
Credit: Wellcome Library
| Membership Number: | 3444 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/index.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - 2020 Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- 2013 - 2017 Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom
- 2003 - 2013 Director of the Wellcome Trust
- July 1997 - May 2003 Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital
- January 2002 - May 2003 Deputy Principal, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- October 2000 - Jan 2003 Governor, the Wellcome Trust
- November 1996 - July 2003 Registrar, Academy of Medical Sciences, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
- October 1991 - July 1997 Professor of Medicine, Head of Rheumatology Unit, Dept of Medicine, RPMS, Hammersmith Hospital.
- July 1994 - July 1997 Vice Dean (Research), RPMS
- October 1994 - Dec 1998 Director of Research and Development, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust
- October 1990 - Sep 1991 Reader in Rheumatological Medicine, RPMS
- November 1985 - Sep 1990 Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, Head of Rheumatology Unit, Dept of Medicine, RPMS.
- November 1982 - Oct 1985 MRC Training Fellow supervised by Professor P J Lachmann FRS, MRC Mechanisms in Tumour Immunity Unit, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology - particularly the complement system
- Rheumatology - particularly Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Apoptosis
- Medical science policy
Honours and Awards
- 1983 - 1985 Harrison-Watson Studentship, Clare College, Cambridge
- 1991 Roche Rheumatology Prize
- 1996 Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science, Royal College of Physicians
- 2001 Honorary Member: American Association of Physicians
- 2004 Honorary Member: Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- DSc (Hon) University of Sheffield (2006), University of London (KCL) (2007), University of Aberdeen (2009)
- 2006 Fellowship of Imperial College
- 2009 Knighthood, for services to medical research (New Year’s Honours)
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2017 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
