Dr Mark Walport

Dr Mark Walport trained at Cambridge and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After training as a junior doctor at Hammersmith, Guy's and the Brompton Hospitals, he returned to Cambridge as an MRC Training Fellow in the MRC Mechanisms in Tumour Immunity Unit. He has been at Hammersmith Hospital since 1985, as Head of the Rheumatology Section in the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He was appointed Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London in 1997. His clinical and research interests focus on immunology and the genetics of rheumatic diseases.

Dr Walport won the Roche Rheumatology Prize in 1991 and the Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science (Royal College of Physicians) in 1996. He is a co-author of Immunobiology: The immune system in health and disease and Chairman of the editorial board of the British Medical Bulletin.