Sir Mark Walport is Foreign Secretary and Vice President, the Royal Society. He chairs Imperial College Health Partners, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre and the Kennedy Memorial Trust. He is a non-executive board member of NHS England, and trustee of the British Museum and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Previous career highlights include: Founding Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), 2017 to 2020; Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA), 2013 to 2017; Member and latterly co-chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology; Director of the Wellcome Trust; Professor and Head of the Division of Medicine, Imperial College London; Founder Fellow and first Registrar of the Academy of Medical Sciences; Member of the Advisory Board of Infrastructure UK
Subject groups
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Molecules of Life
Molecular immunology
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Cell Biology
Cellular and humoral immunology, Cellular pathology, Genetics (excluding population genetics)
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Health and Human Sciences
Medicine, clinical studies, Molecular medicine
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Other
History of science, Public understanding of science, Science education at secondary level, Science policy, Scientific information provision, Publications
