Prevention is Better than Cure: closing lecture by the Vice Chancellor

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• Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS, Fellow and Vice Chancellor
• Wednesday 16 December 2015, 18:00-18:50
• Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Professor John Naughton.

About the Series

A series of specially-commissioned 50-minute lectures to celebrate the first 50 years of Wolfson College. In the series, eleven distinguished members of the college reflect on developments in their fields of expertise in the half-century since Wolfson was founded.

Abstract

Public health over five decades.

About the Lecturer

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz is a former (and now Honorary) Fellow of Wolfson and has been the University’s 345th Vice-Chancellor since October 2010. He was Chief Executive of the UK’s Medical Research Council from 2007, and from 2001 to 2007 was at Imperial College London, where he served as Principal of the Faculty of Medicine and later as Deputy Rector.

Born in Wales, to Polish parents who settled there after the Second World War, he attended Cardiff High School and went on to the Welsh National School of Medicine, later taking up clinical and research posts in London. In 1988 he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Medicine, and was a Fellow of Wolfson College (where he is now an Honorary Fellow). He went on to be Professor of Medicine at the University of Wales for the ten years until 2001.

As Deputy Rector of Imperial College, Sir Leszek was responsible for the overall academic and scientific direction of the institution, particularly the development of inter-disciplinary research between engineering, physical sciences and biomedicine.

Concurrently with his position at Imperial College, Sir Leszek was also Governor of the Wellcome Trust (2006-2007), Chairman of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration’s Integrated Academic Training Awards Panel (2005-2007), and Chair of the HEFCE RAE Main Panel A Assessment Panel.

He was knighted in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List for his contribution to medical education and research into developing vaccines, including work towards a vaccine to combat cervical cancer.

He was a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1996 and a member of its Council from 1997 until 2002, Chairman of the NHS (Wales) R&D Grants Committee and acting Director of NHS (Wales) Research and Development (1994-1996), a member of the Council of Cancer Research UK (2002-2005), a Non-Executive Director of North Thames Regional Health Authority (2003-2004) and a member of the MRC Council from 1995 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.

This talk is part of the Wolfson @ 50: Fiftieth Anniversary Lecture Series series.

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• Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series
• Cambridge Infectious Diseases
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
• Department of Public Health and Primary Care
• Lee Hall, Wolfson College
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