Leszek Borysiewicz

Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz, FRS FMedSci (born 13 April 1951) is a Polish British^[1] immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office (a maximum of seven years)^[2] having started on 1 October 2010.^[3][4] Borysiewicz was formerly chief executive of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.^[5][6]

Biography

Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz was born in Cardiff, Wales. His parents, Jan Borysiewicz and Zofia Helena Borysiewicz (née Woloszyn), were Polish World War II-era refugees that came to the UK with the Anders' Army.^[7] Borysiewicz studied medicine at Welsh National School of Medicine and received a Ph.D from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986 for thesis titled Cell mediated immunity to human cytomegalovirus infection (cytotoxic T cell and natural killer cell mediated lysis of human cytomegalovirus infected cells).^[8] He pursued a career in academic medicine at the University of Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Wolfson College, and then as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. 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,"^[9] 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.^{[6][10][11][12]}

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.^[13] In the 2001 New Year Honours he was made a knight bachelor for services to vaccine research^[14] In 2002 he was awarded the Moxon Trust Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. 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^[15] and co-chair of the MRC's advisory group on stem cell research.^[6] He was awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine in 2010 at The University of Sheffield. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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