Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci FLSW DL (born 13 April 1951) is a British professor, immunologist and scientific administrator. He served as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office (a maximum of seven years) started on 1 October 2010 and ended on 1 October 2017. Borysiewicz also served as chief executive of the Medical Research Council of the UK from 2007-2010.

Contents

• 1 Education and early life
• 2 Career and research
  • 2.1 Awards and honours
• 3 References

Education and early life

Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz was born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, to Jan and Zofia (née Wołoszyn) Borysiewicz, ethnic Polish World War II-era refugees (from what is present-day Belarus) who came to Great Britain with the Anders' Army. He still speaks fluent Polish. After attending Cardiff High School, Borysiewicz studied at Welsh National School of Medicine of Cardiff University, where he obtained a BSc in anatomy 1972, followed by an MB BCh medical degree in 1975. He received a PhD degree from University of London (Imperial College London) in 1986 for his thesis on Cell mediated immunity to human cytomegalovirus infection (cytotoxic T cell and natural killer cell mediated lysis of human cytomegalovirus infected cells) supervised by J.G.P. Sissons and Keith Peters.

Career and research

Borysiewicz 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 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," 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.

Borysiewicz's research focuses on viral immunology, infectious disease, and viral-induced cancer. He has co-aut*d and co-edited a number of books on these subjects, including Vaccinations.

Awards and honours

In the 2001 New Year Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor (Sir) for services to vaccine research.

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 and co-chair of the MRC's advisory group on stem cell research. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine in 2010 at the University of Sheffield. Borysiewicz is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

In October 2018 he was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the highest-ranked Polish order of merit awarded to foreigners or Poles resident abroad for their services to Poland. He collected it during a ceremony at the Polish Emb*y in London in late April 2019.

References

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Student life

• Students' Union
• Graduate Union
• Air Squadron
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• Apostles
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• Cam FM
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• Labour Club
• Liberal Democrats
• Light Entertainment Society
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• Musical Society
• Philosophical Society
• Railway Club
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• Union Society
• Cambridge University Wine Society
• Varsity (student newspaper)
• The Mays

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  • Women (CUWBC)
• Rugby union
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• Compe*ions
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  • Henley Boat Races
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  • University Cricket Match
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Affiliates

• Alan Turing Ins*ute
• Cambridge Theological Federation
• Cambridge University Health Partners
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Partner ins*utions
  • Animal Health Trust
  • Babraham Ins*ute
  • British Antarctic Survey
  • CCDC
  • EMBL-EBI
  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  • NIAB
  • Wellcome Sanger Ins*ute

Museums

• Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Hamilton Kerr Ins*ute
• Kettle's Yard
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Museum of Cl*ical Archaeology
• Museum of Zoology
• Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
• Polar Museum
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science

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