Mark Richmond

Sir
Mark Richmond
FRCP, FRCPath, FRS
Born Marcus Henry Richmond
(1931-02-01) February 1, 1931
Sydney
Nationality United Kingdom
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge
Occupation
Employer

Sir Marcus Henry Richmond, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS (born 1931), known as Mark Richmond, is a British biochemist, microbiologist and academic.

Richmond was born in 1931, the son of H. S. Richmond, a film producer. He was educated at Epsom College from 1944 to 1949,[1] and then studied Biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge, and remained there as a postgraduate for three years.[1][2]

Following his doctorate he worked for the National Institute for Medical Research, subsequent to which he was a reader in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh.[2]

In 1968 he became Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Bristol, working on staphylococcal plasmids and antibiotic resistance.[2] From 1981 he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester.[2]

He became Global Head of Research for Glaxo in 1991.[2]

He retired in 1996 and took up a position as Honorary Fellow in the School of Public Policy at University College London.[2]

He served as chair of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom and of the Science and Engineering Research Council during his time at Manchester.[2] Following formal retirement, he has been a non-executive director of several companies, including Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals and Ark Therapeutics.[2]

He received the Robert Koch Medal in 1976, the Biochemical Society's Colworth Medal and the Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy's Garrod Medal.[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980[3] and was knighted in the 1986 Birthday Honours.[4] He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Sir Marcus Henry Richmond (born 1931). M.A. Ph.D., D.Sc. (Cantab.), Hon.LL.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.Path., F.R.S. – Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University" (PDF). Epsom College. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2008), Superbugs and Superdrugs: A History of MRSA, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-114-1 , Wikidata Q29581755
  3. ↑ "Mark Richmond". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  4. ↑ United Kingdom list: "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. p. 2.
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