Sir Mark Walport is Foreign Secretary and Vice President, the Royal Society. He chairs Imperial College Health Partners and Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, and is a trustee of the British Museum and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Previous career highlights include: Trustee and latterly Chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, 2015 to 2025; 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, 2003-2013; 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
