Mark Walport

Professor
Sir Mark Walport
FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE
Mark Walport
Born
Mark Jeremy Walport

(1953-01-25) 25 January 1953 (age 71)[3]
London, England
EducationSt Paul's School, London
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)[3]
Known for
Spouse
Julia Elizabeth Neild
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(m. 1986)​
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Children4[3]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
Rheumatology
Institutions
ThesisThe biology of complement receptors (1986)
Doctoral advisorPeter Lachmann[2]
Websitegov.uk/government/people/mark-walport

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport (born 25 January 1953[3]) is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017[5][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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  2. ^ Reed, Tanya (11 July 2003). "Wellcome to a new beginning". Reporter: The newspaper of Imperial College London. No. 131.
  3. ^ a b c d e Anon (2015). "Walport, Sir Mark (Jeremy)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38753. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  5. ^ a b Callaway, Ewen (2012). "Britain names next chief science adviser: Immunologist Mark Walport, head of one of the world's largest biomedical charities, will take on role in 2013". Nature. 487 (7405): 20. doi:10.1038/487020a. PMID 22763530.
  6. ^ Mayor, S. (2012). "Mark Walport will be next UK government chief scientific adviser, cabinet office announces". BMJ. 345: e4621. doi:10.1136/bmj.e4621. PMID 22767620. S2CID 11529948.
  7. ^ Kain, K. H. (2010). "Funding scientific discovery: An interview with Sir Mark Walport". Disease Models & Mechanisms. 3 (5–6): 265–267. doi:10.1242/dmm.005710. PMID 20427555.
  8. ^ Anon (2012). "Good advice: The UK government's latest appointment offers hope for British science". Nature. 487 (7405): 5–6. doi:10.1038/487005b. PMID 22763508.
  9. ^ Gibney, Elizabeth (29 June 2012). "New chief scientific adviser announced". Times Higher Education.
  10. ^ Mark Walport's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. ^ Sir Mark Walport in conversation with David Cleevely, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) University of Cambridge on YouTube
  12. ^ Boulton, G.; Rawlins, M.; Vallance, P.; Walport, M. (2011). "Science as a public enterprise: The case for open data". The Lancet. 377 (9778): 1633–1635. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60647-8. PMID 21571134. S2CID 3048048.
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  14. ^ "Dominic Cummings' science obsession: based on fact or fiction?". Times Higher Education (THE). 16 October 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Council". The Royal Society. Retrieved 4 July 2023.