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Mark Walport is a British scientist and administrator who has served as the Chief Executive of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) since 2018. He was previously the Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2013 to 2018. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Walport was born in London in 1953 and studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1975. He then completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Oxford in 1979. He held a number of academic posts at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London, before becoming the Director of the Wellcome Trust in 2003. Walport was appointed the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in 2013, and was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to medical research. In 2018, he was appointed the Chief Executive of UKRI. As of 2021, Mark Walport's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

Popular As Mark Jeremy Walport
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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 25 January, 1953
Birthday 25 January
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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His wife is Julia Elizabeth Neild (m. 1986)

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Children one son, three daughters

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2017

It was announced in February 2017 that Mark Walport is now Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

2013

Walport was the eleventh Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2013 to 2017, succeeding Sir John Beddington.

2009

Walport was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to medical research. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2017 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011. His nomination for the Royal Society reads:

2003

Previously Walport was Director of the Wellcome Trust from 2003 to 2013. Before this, he was Professor of Medicine (from 1991) and Head of the Division of Medicine (from 1997) at Imperial College London, where he led a research team that focused on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases.

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.

1986

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

1953

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE (born 25 January 1953) is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017 and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017 to 2020.

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