Sir Leszek K Borysiewicz, KBE, is a British physician, immunologist and scientific administrator. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical Science that covers the study of all aspects of the Immune system in all Organisms It deals with He is currently chief executive of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council. The Medical Research Council (MRC is a UK organisation dedicated to "promot the balanced development of medical and related biological research [1][2]
Borysiewicz studied medicine at Welsh National School of Medicine and received a Ph.D from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. The University of Wales College of Medicine was a medical school based in the University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, that formed a part of the University of Wales. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS was an independent Medical school in England. He pursued a career in academic medicine at the University of Cambridge and then as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the In the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and parts of the Commonwealth, consultant is the title of a senior doctor who has completed Hammersmith Hospital is a major Teaching hospital in West London. He then headed the Department of Medicine at the University of Wales before joining Imperial College London, where he was promoted to Deputy Rector responsible "for the overall academic and scientific direction of the College," [3] In September 2007, it was reported he would succeed Colin Blakemore as the 9th head of the Medical Research Council, a national organisation that supports medical science with an annual budget of around £500 million. The University of Wales ( Prifysgol Cymru in Welsh) is a confederal University founded in 1893. Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine as given in its Royal Charter It is one of only three universities to have reached The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic Colin Blakemore is a British Neurobiologist specializing in vision. [2]
Borysiewicz's research focuses on viral immunology, infectious disease, and viral-induced cancer. He has co-authored and co-edited a number of books on these subjects, including Vaccinations (ISBN 0198516274). In the 2001 New Years Honours List he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to vaccine research [4] In 2002 he was awarded the Moxon Trust Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery achievement or service to the United Kingdom. A vaccine is a biological preparation which is used to establish or improve immunity to a particular disease The Royal College of Physicians of London was the first medical institution in England to receive a Royal Charter He is also a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, a council member of Cancer Research UK, a founding fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences [5] and co-chair of the MRC's advisory group on stem cell research. The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health Cancer Research UK' is a Cancer research and awareness-promotion charity in the United Kingdom, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger The Academy of Medical Sciences is the United Kingdom 's National academy of Medical sciences It was established in 1998 on the recommendation of a group Stem cells are cells found in most if not all multi-cellular Organisms. [2]
References
- ^ Nigel Hawkes, Mobile phones don’t cause cancer - in the short-term. Long-term, who knows?, The Times, September 13, 2007
- ^ a b c Roger Highfield, Medical Research Council's new head announced, The Daily Telegraph, September 12, 2007
- ^ Rector and Principal Officers » Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Imperial College London website, Retrieved September 22, 2007
- ^ Honorary Fellows 2006, University of Cardiff, July 3, 2006
- ^ Sir Leszek K Borysiewicz professional activities, Imperial College London website, Retrieved September 22, 2007
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