Imperial College London’s former deputy rector, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council.
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, new head of the UK MRC
Borysiewicz was raised in Wales, studying at the Welsh National School of Medicine before embarking on a career spanning immunology, infectious diseases and vaccine development including positions at hospitals in London, Cambridge, The Gambia and Wales. He was knighted in 2001 for research into developing vaccines, including one to prevent the development of cervical cancer.
In 2001 he was became head of the faculty of medicine at Imperial College, later being appointed deputy rector. A governor of the Wellcome Trust, he is chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s clinical medicine panel for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
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