Dr Sir Mark Walport

    Dr Sir Mark Walport's Biography

    Forename(s)
    Mark Jeremy
    Sex
    Male
    Decorations
    kt (2009)
    Date of Birth
    25/1/1953
    Foretitle(s)
    Dr Sir
    Surname
    WALPORT
    Style
    Dr Sir Mark Walport

    Dr Sir Mark Walport's Professional Career

    Career
    jr hosp appts Middx, Hammersmith, Guy's and Brompton Hosps 1977-82, MRC trg fell MRC Centre Cambridge and hon sr registrar Addenbrooke's Hosp Cambridge 1982-85 (dir of studies in pathology Clare Coll Cambridge 1984-85); Royal Postgrad Med Sch Hammersmith Hosp: head Rheumatology Unit Dept of Med 1985-97, sr lectr in rheumatology 1985-90, reader in rheumatological med 1990-91, prof of med 1991-97, vice-dean (research) 1994-97; dir R&D Hammersmith Hosps Tst 1994-98, prof of med and chm Div of Med Imperial Coll Sch of Med Hammersmith Hosp (following merger) 1997-2003, dir The Wellcome Tst 2003- (govr 2000-03); fell Imperial Coll 2006; Br Soc for Rheumatology: memb Cncl 1989-95, memb Heberden Ctee 1990-95 (chm 1993-95); memb: Scientific Co-ordinating Ctee Arthritis and Rheumatism Cncl 1992-99, Working Ctee on Ethics of Xenotransplantation Nuffield Bioethics Cncl 1995-96, Molecular and Cell Panel Wellcome Tst 1995-2002 (chm 1998-2002), Health Ctee Br Cncl 1998-2002, Cncl for Science and Technol 2004-; fndr fell, memb Cncl and registrar Acad of Med Sciences 1998-2003; asst ed Br Jl of Rheumatology 1981-86, advsy ed Arthritis and Rheumatism 1996-2001, series ed Br Medical Bulletin 1998-2003, ed-in-chief Clinical and Experimental Immunology 1998-2000; memb Assoc of Physicians 1990, hon memb American Assoc of Physicians 2001; Roche Rheumatology Prize 1991, Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Sci RCP 1996; Philip Ellman Lecture RCP 1995; Hon DSc: Univ of Sheffield 2006, KCL 2007, Univ of Aberdeen 2010, Univ of Leicester 2012; hon fell Clare Coll Cambridge 2012; FRCP 1990, FRCPath 1997, FMedSci 1998, FRS 2011, Hon FRSM 2012

    Dr Sir Mark Walport's Publications

    Books and Publications
    Clinical Aspects of Immunology (jt ed, 5 edn 1993), Immunobiology (jtly, 6 edn 2005); author of numerous scientific papers

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