Mark Walport

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Sir Mark Walport
Sir Mark Walport (8656569975).jpg
Born Mark Jeremy Walport
(1953-01-25) 25 January 1953 (age 71)[1]
London
Residence United Kingdom
Citizenship United Kingdom
Fields Immunology, Rheumatology
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Alma mater University of Cambridge[1]
Thesis The biology of complement receptors (1986)
Doctoral advisor Peter Lachmann[2]
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Spouse Julia Elizabeth Neild (m. 1986)[1]
Children one son, three daughters[1]
Website
www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-walport

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci Kt (born 25 January 1953[1][6]), is a medical scientist and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom.[4][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Education

Walport is the son of a general practitioner and was born in London. He was educated at St Paul's School, London,[1] studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, and completed his clinical training at Hammersmith, Guy's and Brompton Hospitals in London.[6][15] He was awarded a PhD for research into complement receptors under the supervision of Peter Lachmann in 1986 at the University of Cambridge.[16]

Career

Previously Walport was Director of the Wellcome Trust from 2003 to 2013.[3] Before this, he was Professor of Medicine (from 1991) and Head of the Division of Medicine (from 1997) at Imperial College London,[6] where he led a research team that focused on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Walport was appointed to be the twelfth Government Chief Scientific Adviser in 2013, succeeding Sir John Beddington. As of September 2015, in this role Walport was paid a salary of between £155,000 and £159,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[25]

Honours

Walport was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to medical research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011.[5][6] His nomination for the Royal Society reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Mark Walport has an overwhelming case for election both for his earlier scientific work on the immunology of systemic LE and the role of complement and of defective apoptosis in its pathogenesis; and, as a general candidate, for his achievements as head of medicine at the Hammersmith Campus of Imperial College and since 2003 as Director of the Wellcome Trust. In the latter role he has provided national and international leadership at the highest level on biomedical research and policy issues and is widely recognised as a world leader in the promotion of biomedical science.[5]

References

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  11. ↑ Mark Walport's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  12. ↑ Sir Mark Walport in conversation with David Cleevely, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) University of Cambridge on YouTube
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  14. ↑ Mark Walport on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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Government offices
Preceded by Government Chief Scientific Adviser
2013–present		 Incumbent
Cultural offices
Preceded by Director of Wellcome Trust
2003–2013		 Succeeded by
Jeremy Farrar
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